Feel the same, that whole rape part was totally pointless and unnecessary, no character development, no big impact on next events, basically brushed off, clearly added only for angst and move on, and I hate when it happens, when you add such events in the series, which were originally portraited as the one made for storytelling, not just another fetishing porn series (as I don't expect consistency there), take responsibility and address it correctly, that's what storytelling is about. Honestly, I would like this story much more if only not this typical Bl series trop pushed in for no reason.
I gooned so it's ok.
i didn't think it was there for nothing, it was literally the reason Hayden got so sad/mad with Brett and they broke things off. Brett is literally not okay in the head and dealt with the trauma in his own way, which was suppressing it and maybe even using it as blackmail. And Haydens was sad/disappointed that Brett was dismissive of what happened and literally didn't tell Hayden until Hayden asked him straight on
I'm disappointed the rape scene ended up being there for litterally nothing. You chose to make your character go through that, fine, but at least show the psychological impact it has. I guess I expected better from this author, even though they had to rush S3.