They did explain that the ML is not human. He does not understand human emotions either and with Doram hes experiencing alot of first. Their first night was very uncomfortable and rapey but its supposed to be and "historical" ML would be carrying out his duties what expected of him. If you've read historical romances they're almost just like this when its arranged.
Like I said, i was expecting it. What I didn't expect was for them to brush it off and for the mc to suddenly forgive him over jelly and for them to make it some 'cute' thing bcuz the ml has a 'mean streak'
The amount of people who disliked my post is crazy. Y'all are the reason why authors can't stop romanticizing rape plots.
Unfortunately yes, and this tendency in BL is crazy, like authors want to punish men is their series and rape them all the time... And mostly it's visible in Asian series... SA topic is tough, no matter which century, but the fact that it's getting so 'normalized'/sexualized and brushed off even by readers is very concerning... many at this point cannot even distinguish consensual sex from non con, and they're saying that 'it's BL so there is rape', yeah, because homosexuals can only rape each other, no wonder my gay friends hate yaoi
Ohh I see what you mean. If they established that tiger thing with no emotions first it would have made earlier chapters not so hard to read but the rape plot really dont be necessary at all fr
I never disliked your comment but I’ll be honest, I’m tired of people blowing certain things out of proportion. Like you’re comparing the situation to another totally different, very common situation back then but this is fiction and it’s also fantasy. We’re reading about a literal sable tiger deity who did not have or understand human emotion and never had sex before so he’s like a robot performing at will. And the “cutesy” scenes you’re referring to weren’t there to make us forget about a rape, they were to show the sable tiger god was TRYING to be normal and court Doram properly and do things to make him smile because from what I can tell, Doram is special to him and I think he’s slowly but surely starting to feel or atleast trying to understand his human emotions and their ways of thinking and ways of life. I don’t see this being the same as a modern story that could happen to anyone because its totally unrealistic as it is a fictional, fantasy story so I just don’t see a need to get so worked up over it.
Okay, of course, what you said explains why he did that, but there is no reclassification of the act, what he did was SA, his past or whatever is not an excuse, that's the point. And it doesn't matter if it's fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy or any other genre, act is an act, that's it, and that's the main problem in fiction in general, because people justify such actions saying, 'oh, he had a terrible past', no! Like I said, past cen explain why something happened, but is not an excuse. Same with all these 'rape defender' readers protecting their favourite 'hot character' at all cost, being hot doesn't make them less of the rapist. It's not even the problem of having to many SA in fiction (even when not correctly addressed, which obviously is wrong), but people not seeing it as it should be, and excusing it. Of course I also let a lot of things slide in fiction, which I would never in real life, but SA is a topic which needs to be called as it is, you can later be happy for them if they make a happy couple after such events, it's a fiction, but not act shouldn't be excused or justified, that's all.
╮(￣︿￣)╭ Like I said in my example (but maybe it wasn't clear) imagine historical fantasy (right?) imagine young girl just turned what? 16-17 (seems like the right 'coming of age' age) and a 27 yr guy. They get married right? but she doesnt even know him and he rapes her their first night they meet (cuz he's so clueless about humans, sure). Next week, flower and jelly. Okay! Let's have sex again! So cute! Doesn't excuse that it's a 27 raping a 17 (even if it's 28-18 that's not right. Even if it's 19-18 it's not right). Wanna know why? Cuz we're modern people. The least we can do is have morals when reading fiction. Do you support romanticized child prn as long as it's fiction? If not, then why do you as long as it's two guys? If yes, you're fkn messed up
Also, I know you didn't read my comment properly, I went into this already knowing there was going to be some SA in the beginning. I'll say it again for the people who weren't paying attention: my beef with this is the way they brush it off. Sure, the ML is a 'beast' (which isn't even explained so we go through the whole SA scene thinking it's just a disgusting human) but the mc isn't a beast. Making the young mc forgive his SA-er because he got a little attention from him (and making it seem cute) is disgusting. Even if it's fiction, making a victim forgive and fall in love with their abuser in a month (and it's not psychological story) is crossing a line.
….okay, well I don’t “support” romanticized child prn as long as it’s fiction. I don’t support any rape. I was just explaining why I personally don’t get all worked up over the way it was portrayed here since it’s a very specific situation and I didn’t feel like it was the same as the average yaoi story that takes place in modern times, with gangsters or whatever and a bunch of messed up gang rapes mixed in for no reason other than shock factor or something. It just seemed like he didn’t know what wasn’t considered normal in the bedroom between man and spouse, and the author was trying to make him come off as unfeeling and animalistic like they just had roles to play like tigers or something since he’s not just a regular man. Anyways, I don’t feel like arguing over this since I’m not like trying to argue that I don’t mind SA or something. That wasn’t my point at all but somehow that’s how I feel you’re making me sound. I would agree with some of your points, it’s just the fact that I didn’t agree with your reasoning for it on this particular story but i really don’t see a point in going back n forth on this topic since as I already stated, I’m not supporting rape in BL, but apparently by voicing my opinion on it and not agreeing fully with you seems to make me seem like I’m all for it, when that is not the case. This is why I usually don’t bother commenting at all since words can be twisted, misunderstood or misconstrued.
Ugh. People did mention the rape in the beginning but also said that it became cute later on. Which is why I read this. I didn't realize the "cute"ness was literally the next few chapters. As in, they try to make us forget the rape because "oH tHEyrE sO cUtE"
Just because it's "accurate" to history, doesn't make it less disgusting. Imagine it was a little girl who "just became of age" and a dude 10 years older than her just came and had sex while she said no. Even if they're married, it's disgusting. But what really pisses me is that they try to brush it off and made the mc forgive him because of acorn jelly and a flower. I couldn't look at any of the smut scenes. Had to skim through it. Sucks, the plot seemed a bit interesting.