Yeah so the whole "Tarkan's first love" plotline was totally pointless. I really hate that the resolution of "I love more than one person" be "it's fine they're the same person". It already irked me that they presented loving more than one person as wrong but the author couldn't even fully commit to Tarkan respecting and loving Rine enough to choose a fully monogamous relationship because that's what need to be happy. Yes he does chose to discard his first love but he didn't actually needed to commit to that decision, he didn't have a discussion with Rine to declare he is choosing her and if a closed relationship is what she want then that's how it'll be. No. Turns out hey're the same person so everything is fine and the conflict resolve itself without the characters needing to make choices.
They also used this auto-resolve to spit on polyamorous relationships one last time because why not since Tarkan isn't "abnormally" loving two different people anymore.
I love this manhwa, seriously, but this side plot was trash and the resolution was unsatisfying and wasn't earned at all. Between the intolerant view on poly relationships and the non-resolution of the conflict it really was disappointing, glad it's over.
Yeah so the whole "Tarkan's first love" plotline was totally pointless. I really hate that the resolution of "I love more than one person" be "it's fine they're the same person". It already irked me that they presented loving more than one person as wrong but the author couldn't even fully commit to Tarkan respecting and loving Rine enough to choose a fully monogamous relationship because that's what need to be happy.
Yes he does chose to discard his first love but he didn't actually needed to commit to that decision, he didn't have a discussion with Rine to declare he is choosing her and if a closed relationship is what she want then that's how it'll be. No. Turns out hey're the same person so everything is fine and the conflict resolve itself without the characters needing to make choices.
They also used this auto-resolve to spit on polyamorous relationships one last time because why not since Tarkan isn't "abnormally" loving two different people anymore.
I love this manhwa, seriously, but this side plot was trash and the resolution was unsatisfying and wasn't earned at all. Between the intolerant view on poly relationships and the non-resolution of the conflict it really was disappointing, glad it's over.