What chapter is this? Is it really a rape scene? I want to know so that I'll be alarmed.
Chapter 39. It's not between the main characters and it's mostly implied, so nothing is shown explicity.
sure, both of them were really toxic towards each other, especially with their explicit "give and take" relationship, but they improved like hell for each other too. their improvement was slow, and pretty realistic if i do say so myself.
love doesn't just blossom in the air, and for these two, it certainly took its time, and that's what glued me to this story.
Sorry we couldn’t tend to your Jesus loving, book burning values, Alex.
Angiel* whatever
First off I’m an atheist don’t ever compare me to a damn Christian again, yuck. It’s not my fault you get off to people being forced to have sex with someone, you can’t get any play in real life so you have to live through it online? Fucking weirdo
Literally the first few chapters
Lol
Jesus loves you
Ofc he does, I’m a fucking delight who doesn’t like rape, which is the bare fucking minimum you would think, but I’m not quite sure thinking is in your wheelhouse
Wait why would you think ANYONE in this fandom condoned what happened to Brent? When this chapter dropped everyone reading at the time was horrified and rightfully wanting those dudes dead.
I also felt like the series suddenly ended because that was a horrific event and I wish there were more chapters so that they could actually talk about the assault honestly, but it seems like the author was rushed into ending the series.
Actually nvm lol reading the replies I think the original commenter is talking about the first six chapters where Brett manipulates Hayden into having sex with him really violently
Oh. I think the fandom let that go because Brett specifically wanted it to happen exactly the way it did and pursued Hayden because of it. It’s less about romanticizing assault but about how Brett as a character is manipulative and that’s why he’s so interesting.
I understand perfectly why you'd have this reaction, I too absolutely despise rape. Though only when it's deployed for shock value or otherwise in a really stupid way that adds and explores nothing in the story. In the chapter you are referring to... well it's not actually rape. The reveal is in the next chapter, so I get why you would have missed it if you indeed even made it to the end of the "rape" chapter. The would be rapist was provoked and manipulated into committing rape, but since the rape victim reveals himself to have wanted it and *planned* it, then it kind of makes it not rape. It's still dubious though, don't get me wrong. A real interesting situation to think about, that's for sure. A guy gets breath freak out over becoming a rapist only to have the rug pulled out from under him and the other guy is kind of psychopath. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This can still not be your cup of tea, and that's perfectly fine, there's plenty of wholesome fluffy stories with none of this darkness to read instead of this. That's perfectly fine. In this story however, romance does eventually develop after this bad start, and that's what has people invested. It's not necessarily about fetishizing rape, being sick in the head or ignoring rape, just an exploration of a bizarre situation developing between two people who have issues.
ahhh i love the way you explained it, kudos :D
exaaaaaaaaaactly oml
Look I’m into the toxic shit, but that was just not interesting enough for me to keep reading, it’s like they’re trying to make it seem deeper than what it is, because yeah the other guy was manipulating him but the guy that was going at him didn’t know that, which would make it rape on his part
I’m not talking about love, I’m talking about the action, you can have sex and not be in love, I don’t care about the love story, I didn’t like that the guy assaulted someone, which he did, it doesn’t matter if the other person was in on it to try and manipulate him or smt
I don’t think you’re into toxic shit at all when you’re this disgusted by dubious consent via a manipulative man orchestrating his own assault in order to find his perfect friends-with-benefits. This is a fictional work, we don’t want what happened between Hayden and Brent to happen to us personally, but the mentality of the two men over how Hayden was provoked into rape and Brent fully seeing it coming is interesting (to us, not to you).
10000% like why stay through the ordeal and try to label people who enjoy this type of character work from their supposed high horse
not every work would have the context spelled out as is and its such a shame that the layers of a/b/o as a genre get lost on people like them who don't understand the established grime in the tropes (alpha x alpha, rich people politics, power struggles in sex, etc)
So are we just going to ignore the violent rape scene or are yall so into gay sex and fetish gay people so much that you don’t care? Like that was honestly disgusting and yall are sitting here talking about “when are they going to get together” sick fucking losers