Finally finished this

K Imma just dump all my thoughts here cuz none of my friends read enough yaoi to know this or talk abt this with me so I'll just talk to myself here lol

I enjoyed a majority of the story, Like everyone else I thught the ending was a little rushed (k not a little tbh) and this would have definitely benefitted from some side stories... But well the things I liked..

1. Cirrus. I love love love lovedd his character. I always love the morally grey angsty characters who have an arc. I think I like him more cuz... he had a more defined arc and we see how he ended up. Yes he did a lot of fucked up stuff but it made sense for his character and he had a good payoff. Like it felt so good to finally see him be happy and thrive after all the shit he went through. Would've liked to see the step mom and dad get some more shit but let's be honest we can't everything ig.

2. Season 2 specifically or wel... I guess al the parts abt skylar's and cirrus's ptsd lmao I love angst and I'm okay with the amount but the payoff didn't feel like everything was handled. Specifically with skylar. But love it when I feel sad and wanna cry for a character.

Stuff I didn't like.
1. Sklar's storyline. It was a little messy for me. Not the beginning or the middle but it really doewsn;t feel like it gets closed properly to me... This was my main issue with the story... so here I go

I think the whole reveal of skylar trauma to cirrus, where he tells him abt minwoo should've been done after that fight abt him not reassuring cirrus enough after pushing him into the ball crate thingy. I know it's cuz of skylar's trauma and it good that it ends up affecting his relationship with cirrus. But I feel like would've been a better resolution to this problem if we... idk... handled it when it was a problem and not like ages later when cirrus has like 5 other random problems and that was the ending of his arc. It kinda iffed me how most of the blame was on cirrus.. I think skylar could've gotten some consolation and closure then and the rest his arc could be getting more comfortable with being around cirrus. While cirrus is breaking down half the time ig. We didn't get enough of skylar being affectionate to cirrus till the last 2 episodes... which was a problem for me cuz that was.... idk his problem in the beginning of the relationship?? so it would've been nice if that was addressed but it wasn't. That was my major gripe.

But apart from that in the ending there are like so many different things going on... like chan-il's and cirrus beef... the whole woo hynsik and dongsik fights... skylar finding out abt cirrus like... setting chan il and that one girl. The whole dad thing (btw fuck that dad like jesus christ... like okay the step mom thing fine... but a little consideration for ur kid could've gone a long way for both of you. I get that he was hurting to but the better way would've been to talk it out with cirrus and not give up on him and... idk maybe wishing it was him who was dead and abandoning him...) It was so much shit all at once I could not follow what plot was getting resolved at what time. Maybe I'm just dumb but who knows.

K anyways I'm glad I sat down and read this. I had it on my list for the longest time before all the lists were nuked... and it was always in the top 5 of the shounen ai section. but for some reason i didn't pick it up till now. Yeah I have some problems here and there but but it had a lot of angst lol (the placement of the angst could've been handled better but oh well).

Overall... 3/5 not cuz it's mid or anything. I enjoyed it quite a bit and liked watching cirrus grow. just had some problems with season 3 ig.