Excuse me?

Girl, which part of any chapter did you feel like Tei had romantic feelings for Shuraka? And wtf do you mean “grooming” when they literally spent 12 years apart and met AFTER the child grew. The author has literally implied that Tei sees the kid as someone to be protected. Maybe read properly before commenting bullshit

Its not a big problem seeing as he was only there for a little bit and didn't see him for 12 years. U realize he has to manipulate a minor in order to groom them? All he did was protect him and maybe teach him how to fight. Yes, there's an age difference, but there's no grooming and they're both adults now.

U judge the story before it even half of it being published huh from this author I guarantee it’s a masterpiece.

Someone does not have any idea what they are reading like where exactly is "grooming" that you speak of?
Like develop taste for good things girl

I don’t mean it like that. Grooming doesn’t have to be 100% intentional. Two is getting involved in a relationship with a child, and even if he’s aware that he’s only a child and the marriage is on paper, the child is getting swept in the process and they are both getting involved in that dynamic. Even if Tei doesn’t see Shukara as more than a child, the child clearly doesn’t and spent a lot of time with Tei before the 12 years apart, where they clearly developed a bond. That’s literally evidenced when we see them meeting again, Shukara has feelings. If they had just just met and then separated I would give the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that they spent a lot of time together before leaving (which they clearly established that it had been a while) is just not it. Also, the age gap is hella fucked up, and the dynamic of “I met you as a child and I’m still able to see past that enough to fuck you” is messed up. It isn’t normal to be able to fuck someone you met as a child when you were a fully fledged adult. I know it’s yaoi, and I can turn off my brain and see past a lot of things, but this story even if beautiful, is giving me a hard time. If you say “It’s just a yaoi” I’ll say sure, but I’ll still bitch about it, you do you. But if you say it’s not even a tiny bit messed up, this is where the conversation ends.

Grooming doesn’t always have to be intentional. But I’ll give you this, he doesn’t have a bad intention and has no power on this situation. I’m not criticizing Tei, I’m criticizing the author for establishing a bond between them before the 12 years apart. If they had not interacted for a while before separating, I wouldn’t have much of a problem, because they wouldn’t have developed a relationship/bond. I also wouldn’t mind as much the age gap if they hadn’t gotten to know each other when Shukara was a child, because now, I don’t understand how a fully fledged adult can be able to fuck someone he met as a child while he was an adult. Also, he was technically groomed to be a husband. Not by Tei, but still to marry an adult, even if they had no romantic relationship at the moment, it will become that, or Shukara saw it coded as such. There's definitely a power dynamic. Look, if you say “it’s just a yaoi” I can understand that, and see past it. There’s worse things, but my comment still stands.

Grooming doesn’t have to be 100% intentional. And I’m not exactly saying it’s from Tei, because he clearly has no ill intent. The child was still dragged into a marriage situation with an adult, and even if that adult doesn’t mean for it to be anything more than a piece of paper, the child doesn’t, and they spent enough time together to create a bond. And we know how yaois go, they’ll clearly fuck in the future, and I think it’s fucked up you're able to fuck someone you met as a child while you were an adult. Anyways, I’m not criticizing Tei, I’m criticizing the author. If they had just met and went on their ways, I wouldn’t have minded as much, but seeing as it was established they met for a while to develop a relationship (even if not romantic, at least from Tei’s side) that makes a big difference. I understand it’s “just a yaoi” but I’ll still bitch.

I’ll still keep reading and hope I forget about that aspect, because I don’t doubt it will get good. The artwork is beautiful. But I am able to judge what’s established, since it’s what the rest of the story will stand on fundamentally

A SANE PERSON HELLO

The first thing I saw when I went to your profile is that you’ve read “Profundis”, if you can be alright with literal SA and rape then I really think it’s hypocritical of you to point your fingers at this dynamic when, 1) a romantic relationship hasn’t even begun yet and 2) not enough chapters are out to even claim such a strong disdain. Most people who read yaoi (including me) do read fucked up stuff at some point, I won’t deny that. The reason I’m defending this author so strongly is because I trust their storytelling, writing and characters. BWAT is wayyyy better than most yaoi authors I’ve read and the fact that some people are critiquing her newest work after such a long hiatus is really off putting especially since the story hasn’t even begun properly. Is the age gap borderline messed up? Maybe; subjective really. But don’t pretend like you haven’t read yaoi way more messed up than this. That’s all.

First of all, I didn’t finish reading Profundis. You can literally see my rating is 1 star with a “poopoo caca rape” comment. LOL. Second, I don’t have a strong disdain for this(? I just have a big critique. I’ll still give it a shot because I like the art, but I’ll just try to forget what they started as. I’m not pretending I haven’t, I literally said “if you say it’s just a yaoi, I get that” because yaoi is sadly messed up a lot of times and we have to put things aside to keep reading. I’m reading Jinx, for fuck’s sake! (Especially since it’s been a while since I stopped reading and forgot the bad stuff) But if we also don’t criticize the bad content in a potentially good work (because I like this author’s work too) they’ll keep doing what’s bad and normalize it. I don’t hope they get hated on, the art is gorgeous and they can do great stuff, but I can’t act as if what they are writing isn’t messed up even a little. We shouldn’t hate authors off of a platform, but we should look to be more critical on the content we consume, so it gets better and we don’t normalize bad stuff.

What you’re saying is understandable, I’m just baffled that you’d come to a conclusion about this work so soon lmao. I also don’t think that this is a case of grooming because that requires that both parties participate in it (especially the older one) but the case here is literally the opposite where Shuraka blushes or is nervous around Tei BECAUSE his culture requires that he look at him as his “bride”. Tei clearly doesn’t have any romantic feelings (yet) and wants him to act like a child as he should. I’m not promoting nor condoning child marriage but this manhwa is literally set in a fantastical world?? where this is custom AND normalised. It is upon the readers to distinguish between reality and fiction, unless the author explicitly says that they support some messed up stuff, I really don’t think yaoi should be politicised. Because yaoi as a genre is fucked up to begin with. I see that there’s a difference in opinion lmao so to each their own. Glad that you’re gonna give it a chance though

Finally a sane person in the comments. I like this author but this story wasn’t it. Child bride and groom…. Oh hell nah