Grace Riddle the goat you are

Grace is literally one of the most interesting FLs I've ever read. Love her character!

Honestly, I think this is one of the reason why I like this story sm when I hate stories like Cry or better yet beg.... Grace is a strong and complicated character that I'm somehow always drawn to her

You must have a bullet in your mind.

Yeah Grace put a bullet there . I'm lovesick.

There's lovesick and then there's bad comprehension skils where you become a rape apologist

2/10 ragebait

Oh shit I did not read the whole comment. Thought you were praising her badass character in the novel. Wtf possessed you to say she liked it, she's clearly in a life or death situation every time

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I was half awake when I wrote this. Ignore the bad grammar but I stand by what I said.

my bad i was the ragebait here, sorry internet stranger

Rape apologist for a fictional character? You're in too deep down moral policing mama go touch some grass

I like her character cause there's growth from feeling complicated to being accepting of that said toxic love. (Later on in the story) So yes I can say she liked it. So what? Can't ppl like fiction now? Do y'all have to go comment it's RAPE in every fucking dark story's comment section? Go touch some grass just go right now

Apparently "it's fiction" is the fandom's cheat code. Type it in and they think romanticizing rape becomes immune to criticism.

First of all I'm not 'romanticizing' rape , author is. I'm just a reader. If an author writes a character: Grace here for example, I'm fully aware of her pain & hardships & i kinda like the way she handled her grief & rapist. The situation is never in her favour so she's forced to keep meeting & taking help from Leon. So unnecessary to keep calling it rape all the time when sometimes it can be named differently. What happens later in the story is what I'm referrencing practically all the time here. So when ppl say oh so you're a rape apologist when my whole attention is on a rape victim & her decisions, you knida get worked up. I think it's important for y'all to make your own posts regarding Leon & his antics rather than inserting yourself in Grace related posts. Or better just down vote & move on if you have nothing niché to say.

(P.s) Fiction is fiction bro, you can never assume a person who likes dark fiction is bad person irl too. Especially if it's another woman. It's like you do not understand women being a woman yourself. I always think oh these ppl are probably very young or very new to dark fantasy to speak like this but most times it's all grown up women who have high ideas of moral policing on other readers. You gotta be very smart to acknowledge there's different feelings a woman feels while reading dark fantasy it's not just gooning to dominant sex it's the feeling of reading how the FML is overcoming such atrocities. It's inspirational & that's why this genre is famous for. I hope you learned something & will not repeat this mistakes. (⌒▽⌒)

Girl, nobody is calling you a bad person for reading dark fiction. You're arguing against something they never said. The problem is that every time someone criticizes Leon's actions, y all immediately shift the conversation to Grace's healing journey. Yes, Grace is the victim. Yes, her resilience can be inspiring. But that doesn't mean people have to stop calling what happened to her rape just because the story later focuses on her recovery or relationship with Leon. You said it's "unnecessary" to keep calling it rape and that it can be named differently sometimes. Why? That's literally what happened. A victim moving forward with her life doesn't change the act itself. Grace's decisions afterward don't erase what Leon did.

And honestly, criticism of Leon naturally belongs in discussions about Grace because he's the reason for a huge part of her trauma. You can't separate the victim from the person who caused the harm and then act like people are inserting themselves into the conversation. Also, nobody is "moral policing" for criticizing the author's writing choices. If you're allowed to praise the story for how it handles Grace, then other people are allowed to criticize how it handles Leon and the romanticization of his actions.

The funny thing is you're asking people to respect different interpretations while dismissing anyone who disagrees as "young," "new to dark fantasy," or incapable of understanding women. Maybe accept that people can read the same story and come away with different conclusions instead of acting like yours is the only mature interpretation.

The conversation keeps getting shifted to "don't judge readers" when the criticism was about comments claiming Grace enjoyed the rape or treating obvious trauma-bonding/Stockholm syndrome dynamics as romance. If Grace is such a great character, then saying "she liked it" is one of the biggest insults you can make to her character, especially when "it's fiction" gets used as an excuse every time that interpretation is criticized.

Exactly. The discussion was never about policing what people read. The criticism was aimed at comments claiming Grace enjoyed what happened to her or treating trauma-bonding as some kind of romantic love story. That's a completely different issue. And honestly, if you supposedly love Grace as a character, saying "she liked it" is one of the most disrespectful interpretations possible because it erases everything she went through. It turns her trauma, fear, and lack of choices into consent, which is not the same thing at all.

Like be serious for a second. If Grace is such an amazing character to you, why are you reducing her entire trauma to "she liked it"? That's one of the biggest disservices you can do to her character. The whole point is that she was trapped, traumatized, and forced to depend on him, yet somehow people twist that into consent or romance.

Lmao none of y'all have reading comprehension?

I clearly wrote from my first comment that it's all after reference to the full novel i read. I notified in my recent comment as well I'm talking about a future Grace.

Right now I don't like winston. Infact after reading the whole Novel I never did like him. So in a way it's confirmed I m not a rape apologist, or a male lead supporter in fact.

Second point tho (y'all dragging me for) I'm again... Talking about a Happy ever after phase Grace. Which is why even tho (spoiler) she is cornered, needs help, she does have consentual sex with him. And doesn't sees it as Rape anymore. Why? Because she likes him as well, he's also her first love, she feels guilty for what happened to his father, & making him cruel to the rebels. I'm glad she doesn't feel any better for the rebels as well. I really like her motherhood, her brief freedom it's so different from other female leads & that rape phase was definitely a sad moment for me as a reader as well. But everything is author's will.

She likes it - is a reference to her near climax & side story phase. Which reveals part of her thinking. Which is why Grace Right now, bound like a dog & forced to have sex & carry pregnancy while thinking something contrasting is making her character so so complicated.

If you have time to read this & reply or moral policing. Then you can take the time to read the novel, and take it with the author first and then... Come reply. Savvy? Have fun