Honestly, as someone with a brother, a Male childhood friend, and as someone who married a childhood friend, how my husband acted towards me growing up is completely different than how my homeboy acted growing up. I couldnt imagine my homeboy acting like mikhail in the beginning of our relationship, so brotherly, just to try to get with me when we are older. The idea of that makes us both cringe. With my husband it never felt cringe, but he never acted brotherly either.
I dont hate Mikhail, he is a good kid, i was supper excited for like a platonic found family dynamic with him and the MC and her family. If he does end up as the ML its whatever ig, it just feels like him pushing to be seen as a brother was an unnecessary dynamic. You dont magically move past the brother dynamic just bc he isnt blood. I just wish authors didnt make the whole brother role so weird. They either always write Siscons or have the ML grow up with the MC acting brotherly just for them to get together.
This was an unnecessary rant but whatever, as someone with a brother its just odd that this happens so often.
I hope Mikhail isnt the ML.
Honestly, as someone with a brother, a Male childhood friend, and as someone who married a childhood friend, how my husband acted towards me growing up is completely different than how my homeboy acted growing up. I couldnt imagine my homeboy acting like mikhail in the beginning of our relationship, so brotherly, just to try to get with me when we are older. The idea of that makes us both cringe. With my husband it never felt cringe, but he never acted brotherly either.
I dont hate Mikhail, he is a good kid, i was supper excited for like a platonic found family dynamic with him and the MC and her family. If he does end up as the ML its whatever ig, it just feels like him pushing to be seen as a brother was an unnecessary dynamic. You dont magically move past the brother dynamic just bc he isnt blood. I just wish authors didnt make the whole brother role so weird. They either always write Siscons or have the ML grow up with the MC acting brotherly just for them to get together.
This was an unnecessary rant but whatever, as someone with a brother its just odd that this happens so often.