For a groomed kid, Asha was so oblivious
If you think he is ‘groomed’, being oblivious is normal but if you read from beginning and pay attention to his behavior until the latest chapter, he isn’t oblivious…he’s just being nonchalant lol
I don't Asha was groomed. And in the novel, he is oblivious of Kiel's feelings
He def groomed Asha but not sexually. Kiel had Asha constantly repeat that they'd marry eachother when they were younger, Kiel normalised romantic behaviours like hand holding around the palace and sleeping together for his own benefit. Kiel also said himself when Asha was 15 (Kiel would've been 20) he was deadset on getting married and was even demoting Asha's title due to feeling rejected... Asha would have never been "oblivious" if Kiel had been transparent with his intentions to begin with.
Replying to myself bc I forgot near the start he was straight up jerking himself off by Asha who was fast asleep so yeah he is on thin ice in terms of lack of sexual grooming
No way it’s “grooming,” more like “crazy obsession.” Kiel started showing affection towards Asha way back when they were both kids. Plus, they weren’t even always together judging from the phasing and their status differences, so grooming seems unlikely.
Grooming involves a prolonged/long-period process of influencing someone into a certain norm in day-to-day habit, but Asha has literally been an airhead since he was young…He’s the “go with the flow” type, and FFS, don’t forget he was an established Knight once (though got demoted for childish reason)~ how is he groomed all the time? He had to train and stuffs with many people for a long periods since he was a teen too.
If he were actually groomed from a young age, wouldn’t his upbringing have been weird or unsettling? Just because Kiel is 6 years older doesn’t mean him liking Asha when he was 10 automatically makes it PD or grooming. He’s simply been doting on Asha way too much (crazily) and unwilling to give up, like a spoiled kid throwing a tantrum over a toy they were told they couldn’t have XD And apparently, that never changed even as he got older.
Asha is also an adult here, yet he’s still completely nonchalant about it lol~
So let’s just enjoy the story as it is, okay? It’s fiction, you wont get morally affected just by reading it anyway, so why the fuss lol. Unless you will…(bombastic side eye)