I usually get a little annoyed when people massively downvote a story and apply real life logic or morals to a work that’s obviously exaggerated and not trying to redeem itself as the story goes on, but goddamn. This is the first I got this pissed awf while reading. I might have loved the ML if he was in a different, more serious work, and I might have loved the MC more if he was in a different, better work too. That said THIS FUCKING STORY PISSED ME THE HELL OFFFFF WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THE RAPE JUST HAPPENS, IS PLAYED STRAIGHT AS RAPE, AND THEN THEY JUST NEVER TOUCH ON IT EVER AGAIN? It doesn’t even feel like a fetish work where the obvious point is to get off at it, (even though its structured like those) its just damn annoying! Seriously, these characters had the potential to be massively fascinating in a different setting. In this one? They have to throw their entire brain down the meat grinder for it to work. Like fuck man I usually stand on the principle that artists works all deserve to exist no matter my personal feelings on them, but damn this was a waste to read while I’m living in an active war zone underneath constant bombardment!!! TS PMO!!! TS PMO so flippin bad!!! I haven’t read the side stories and I honest to god don’t know how I could stop being pissed off long enough to read along. This just made me think of how much I prefer Sweet Pools (a yaoi horror visual novel) tackling on the severity of rape over this; its not downplayed and every scene makes you terrified out of your mind, and the main character is genuinely disturbed from it, but its also a tool of the narrative that forces you to seriously think about everything thats happening. The main character ultimately decides to forgive everything that happened (because he’s just inherently that gentle a person) and the work is moreso about the ephemerality of life and the importance of living in the moment. (Plus its a horror scary shit just keeps on happening and considering the setting everyone is living in, you know its a heightened situation where you can’t exactly blame certain characters for how they snap under pressure, which is sort of why the main character gives himself the peace of forgiving those who hurt him)
I usually get a little annoyed when people massively downvote a story and apply real life logic or morals to a work that’s obviously exaggerated and not trying to redeem itself as the story goes on, but goddamn. This is the first I got this pissed awf while reading. I might have loved the ML if he was in a different, more serious work, and I might have loved the MC more if he was in a different, better work too. That said THIS FUCKING STORY PISSED ME THE HELL OFFFFF WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THE RAPE JUST HAPPENS, IS PLAYED STRAIGHT AS RAPE, AND THEN THEY JUST NEVER TOUCH ON IT EVER AGAIN? It doesn’t even feel like a fetish work where the obvious point is to get off at it, (even though its structured like those) its just damn annoying! Seriously, these characters had the potential to be massively fascinating in a different setting. In this one? They have to throw their entire brain down the meat grinder for it to work. Like fuck man I usually stand on the principle that artists works all deserve to exist no matter my personal feelings on them, but damn this was a waste to read while I’m living in an active war zone underneath constant bombardment!!! TS PMO!!! TS PMO so flippin bad!!! I haven’t read the side stories and I honest to god don’t know how I could stop being pissed off long enough to read along. This just made me think of how much I prefer Sweet Pools (a yaoi horror visual novel) tackling on the severity of rape over this; its not downplayed and every scene makes you terrified out of your mind, and the main character is genuinely disturbed from it, but its also a tool of the narrative that forces you to seriously think about everything thats happening. The main character ultimately decides to forgive everything that happened (because he’s just inherently that gentle a person) and the work is moreso about the ephemerality of life and the importance of living in the moment. (Plus its a horror scary shit just keeps on happening and considering the setting everyone is living in, you know its a heightened situation where you can’t exactly blame certain characters for how they snap under pressure, which is sort of why the main character gives himself the peace of forgiving those who hurt him)