I honestly can get ML’s pov. This guy was isolated and desperate for family approval while his family neglected him and didn’t even bother teaching him human behavior or anything. In pops MC so he desperately clings to MC as his source of comfort as family. Romance has never entered his mind and no one ever taught him that romantic love can become family as well. It may seem like common sense to us because we were raised with these values, but ML is not human and grew up in a dysfunctional environment where these things aren’t obvious.
I honestly can get ML’s pov. This guy was isolated and desperate for family approval while his family neglected him and didn’t even bother teaching him human behavior or anything. In pops MC so he desperately clings to MC as his source of comfort as family. Romance has never entered his mind and no one ever taught him that romantic love can become family as well. It may seem like common sense to us because we were raised with these values, but ML is not human and grew up in a dysfunctional environment where these things aren’t obvious.