AND HE STILLLLL GOT W HIMMMMMUHHH why WHYYY they could’ve just been childhood friends in the past or something like as soon as it went to the past and HE WAS RAISING HIM FROM LITERALLY A BABY BRO THSTS A BRAND NEW DRAGON I knew we had lost the plot. The plot is just age play atp. beautiful art. It’s literally js smut tho. Not a single tear from my eye it was all very predictable.
No, it actually is weird. And a lot of stories have this dynamic now, it tiptoes on that line. I like the story, but certain scenes—especially within the context of the story and the past—really give me the ick everytime I reread it. In the past, it is clear that he never liked Hyoun before they were involved, but it’s the combination of the past and the present that makes it weird(er), and how the author chose to regress the characters to a weird mental state.
For example, hyoun’s personality before he got his memories back was far more mature, but once he got memories of the past back, their relationship dynamic shifted from being two equal, grown adults, to a perceived…hm….”mental age gap”? That’s the best way I can say it. A clear example, off the top of my head, there’s a point where, during one of the sex scenes, the Uke (forgive me, is like “oh no you’re going to get me pregnant, what are we going to do??” and the hyoun (who is out of it) cries or something i think, i don’t really remember fully but i know it gave me the ick so bad.
It really does toe that line. And if this were a shoujo or josei, I don’t think people would be so quick to call you odd for noticing the weird subtext.
And before anyone comes over here to tell me “it’s not that deep”, please don’t waste your time. Like I said, I like this story, despite my icks. It is okay to like something but also admit that some aspects about the story are weird. We’re su-posed to critique the media we consume, not just consume it mindlessly.
Ignore the haters, you're 109% right. I doesn't matter if he wasn't psychologically an actual child, that guy thought he was yet still raised him and developed sexuak feelings for him right when he had become of a capable age. Some of us got a working moral compass, it's rough but that's just what happens. There was no reason I should've saw their back story and thought “was this is low-key so father and son,” like wtf. I tried to stop it from leaking into my perception of the Jr present life but the “someone raised you well” jokes during sex killed that if your looking for something just like this done amazing and ethically, READ RED STRING QUEST. It literally is so freaking good and it reminds me so much of dawn of the dragon, taking the tiger, and define the relationship which if I know anything about BL means it's pretty freaking great. People in the comments calling you stupid or a bad person is straight up hallarious considering this same people gooned to killing and stalking but I digress. Not liking stuff where your out into a situation where you have to convince yourself that a child in any kind of remotely unethical situation is NORMAL. He wasn't a kid, doesn't mean an adult who raised him should've slept with him under the guise that he was. It's weird and manipulative from both sides. Jeez, I'm ranting but this reminds me of a video I watched. Where people were given book porn and a paper written from SA, many people couldn't tell which is which. It's just fiction until your horny listening to crimes, thanks, and good day.

Diddyyyy come on outtt! Hey so why tf…. BRO HE RLLY ACCEPTED HIM AS HIS FATHER AT ONE POINT AND HE SAW HIM AS HIS CHILD HE RAISEDDDD EEEYUCKKKKK WTH.