I’m sorry I’m not trying to be a hard ass, but unless they were participating in BDSM, they’re not a switch couple. They’re vers.
I've been reading these types of works for a solid couple of years but always assumed they were one and the same. Your comment made me search em up lol. Tysm for the new info!
Of course! I as well have had to educate myself because people thought they were interchangeable, but I always see a pattern when the word switch was being used (correctly) was during BDSM D/S relationship.
This is such a gem. It's rare to find a switch couple and all the more rare to find a bl story where neither mc nor ml are marked with a vast diffrence. This is an issue I havs with newer bl. It's not just manga, it's the same with manhwas and manhuas where one of the ml or mc is twinkified or there's a huge ass height difference. And that's only with physical appearances. Behaviour and personality there's always that stereotype between being a bottom and a top. Some give it a "twist" where the usual "roles" are switched. But isn't the vast difference itself that pop media shows us that the "top" and "bottom" will always be markedly different? I'm not saying that it's not possible but it sometimes sure does feel like there's an oversaturation with this marked difference that's often portrayed.
It's rare to find these type of pairing years ago when I started reading around 10yrs ago but all the more now. Tbh I only ever see it in manga nowadays, nearly never in its Chineseand Korean counterparts. I've been reading a lot of manhuas and manhwas (not all ofc cause who the f—) but I can only, and barely at that, count with my two hands the number of couples that are portrayed as this and not where one is some rich, strong, old money, tough CEO or gangster and a demure or broke ass, soft spoken, glasses guy who's twinkified so much that he looks like an elementary schooler matched with a graduating senior.
I feel like I went off a tangent and took this too far off the road but I can't help but rant out my frustrations atp because finding gems like these are getting so mjxb harder