Generally the seme(top) becomes the ML..........in most of the BLs.
Only when the story strongly shows the pov or side of top(seme)...........might be seen Mc I believe.......this one I'm 50-50
I may be wrong but Mc stands for main character so our focus character. Then Ml stands for main lead or male lead aka our mcs lover. Hope this helps! :)
Generally the seme(top) becomes the ML..........in most of the BLs.
Only when the story strongly shows the pov or side of top(seme)...........might be seen Mc I believe.......this one I'm 50-50
Mc is the one with whom we're sharing our pov most of the time, regardless of gender . The main protaganist . Ml is the love interest .
U have a tgcf pfp so its like , xie lian was the mc , we read the entire novel from his pov . Hc was the ml , his love interest.
If I understand it correctly myself, MC - main character (most of the story is from his POV), ML - main lead (main love interest).
The bottom/uke is most often the character from whose perspective we are given. Most times it starts with the bottom's pov and we dont get the top"s pov until later (if at all). So even when the pov l is split, its the bottoms pov that is told first so they're the main character.
There are few BL manga/manhwa that are primarily told from the top's pov, which is likely because authors/artists of BL are primarily women. I'm sure there are lists for manga with top mcs tho, where the top/seme is the mc. For example, commenters under To You At Dawn are currently having difficulty with referring to mc/ml because the top/seme was the first character whose perspective was shown so the top is technically the mc but since we're so used to the bottom being the mc people are confused on how to talk about them
Am i the only one who's confused who's the ML and MC in a BL story? coz like they're both males how am i supposed to know who's the male lead or main character????!!
does it stands for something else?
is there a gender rule I don't know?