actually i have a lot more to say about this story after giving it more thought. there’s an inherent issue with how the author conducts the privileged people in this story, and that’s by how there’s little to no actual discussion on fixing the problem. the rapists go unpunished. author just gave hawon a simple ending with, “his rapists won’t harm him anymore, the ml won’t hurt him anymore, and he’s rich now” this author doesn’t actually address any systemic issues present in her worldbuilding.
the author wants us to know the characters who hurt hawon are bad people, but she’s also aware that these bad people realistically would probably get away with the problem. and yet she still wants hawon to have his cake and eat it too, because he ends up joining the same money class as them. like you want to write about difficult and serious issues, and yet u try ur sincere best to make such an unrealistically hopeful ending.
I’m not asking for the author to make wholly good people as the main characters, but I do think it’s a bit of a problematic story to essentially say that all rapists and bad people can and should not ever be punished. and that actual “decent” rich people like mc and ml don’t need to fix the systemic issues that they are more than wholly capable of fixing. because at the end of the day, hawon who was a struggling man was still “luckier” because he had something that all these rich people were vying for; he essentially has an inherent value that makes him worth helping that all the other struggling people don’t.
the author wants to portray realistic classism by having epstein-like rich characters present in her story, but she still wants to have a fairytale ending with hawon marrying a rich man. so she essentially fixes the problem by ignoring her own setting that she created. he quite literally gets coupled up with a man who is in the same group of people that hurt him. and u might go, the male lead WAS aware of all the horrible people present in his posse and never actually tries to get them arrested. now that hawon is with him, he still never tries to punish them either. i’m not asking for a revenge story, but i think it’s quite insane to kind of let the readers have the thought that these rapists are probably going to keep hurting people bc they went unpunished.
actually i have a lot more to say about this story after giving it more thought. there’s an inherent issue with how the author conducts the privileged people in this story, and that’s by how there’s little to no actual discussion on fixing the problem. the rapists go unpunished. author just gave hawon a simple ending with, “his rapists won’t harm him anymore, the ml won’t hurt him anymore, and he’s rich now” this author doesn’t actually address any systemic issues present in her worldbuilding.
the author wants us to know the characters who hurt hawon are bad people, but she’s also aware that these bad people realistically would probably get away with the problem. and yet she still wants hawon to have his cake and eat it too, because he ends up joining the same money class as them. like you want to write about difficult and serious issues, and yet u try ur sincere best to make such an unrealistically hopeful ending.
I’m not asking for the author to make wholly good people as the main characters, but I do think it’s a bit of a problematic story to essentially say that all rapists and bad people can and should not ever be punished. and that actual “decent” rich people like mc and ml don’t need to fix the systemic issues that they are more than wholly capable of fixing. because at the end of the day, hawon who was a struggling man was still “luckier” because he had something that all these rich people were vying for; he essentially has an inherent value that makes him worth helping that all the other struggling people don’t.
the author wants to portray realistic classism by having epstein-like rich characters present in her story, but she still wants to have a fairytale ending with hawon marrying a rich man. so she essentially fixes the problem by ignoring her own setting that she created. he quite literally gets coupled up with a man who is in the same group of people that hurt him. and u might go, the male lead WAS aware of all the horrible people present in his posse and never actually tries to get them arrested. now that hawon is with him, he still never tries to punish them either. i’m not asking for a revenge story, but i think it’s quite insane to kind of let the readers have the thought that these rapists are probably going to keep hurting people bc they went unpunished.