I love this story and art seeing as this is my favorite creator. However, reading some of these comments, I feel like I need to play devils advocate for a second. This is going to be long and I don't expect many people to read it, but I really needed to get this off my chest.
Everyone is hating on Suah and taking a pretty affirmative stance categorically inexcusing his behavior. However, I think there are a few points that I think just need to be brought into context.
1. Juhyeok is and has always been in love with Suah. They are soulmates and have been depicted as such. From the very beginning, it is very clearly shown that Juhyeok has deep feelings for Suah. He makes him a flower crown, gets the scar above his eye protecting Suah, makes a pledge that he will always protect Suah, carries Suah with his bare hands even though it meant getting covered in Suah's urine and not showing even the slightest bit of disgust, asks Suah to marry him on numerous occasions, and even makes a birthday wish that is literally just for Juhyeok to marry Suah.
Okay, can all of this be written off as a silly childhood crush? Fine, maybe. But there is also something to be said about spending the formative childhood years with someone and developing romantic feelings for them at a young age. They were raised together. Most if not all of their core memories growing up are with each other. Even after the secondary gender reveal, their parents continue to help raise the other. That is not something that can be easily dismissed. The one who was clearly more obsessive, protective and possessive at the onset has obviously been Juhyeok.
The only reason tension begins to form in their relationship is because of their secondary genders being the complete opposite of what they had essentially created their entire identities tied to. While Juhyeok feels resentment for himself due to his internalized repulsion of being an omega, the reason he lashes out at Suah isn't out of jealousy that Suah is an alpha - it's because he had made so many promises to the person he loves, envisioning the life that they would have in their future (which he never hesitated to claim would be together) and the role he would play for Suah in this future together, that he now believes he cannot keep (i.e. protecting Suah, fathering their children, etc.). He believes he has disappointed Suah and these expectations he thinks Suah has of him, leading to him being blinded by his own egocentrism.
In the same vein, Suah also is completely repulsed by his secondary gender as an alpha, seeing as he views this as a very real threat to his current and future relationship with Juhyeok, which he cherishes over anything and everything. And he is correct in his fear, seeing as exactly what he was afraid of happening (Juhyeok rejecting him) did in fact come true. Unlike Juhyeok though, Suah has none of the egotism of Juhyeok and very quickly realizes that his love for Juhyeok is not conditional on what role they would play in the relationship (i.e. with regards to his relationship with Juhyeok, their secondary genders don't matter to him, because he knows that the actual important thing is that they continue spending time together - he doesn't care if that is as an alpha, omega, beta, whatever). We can see Suah desperately attempting to cling onto their dynamic of Alpha Juhyeok and Omega Suah even after the secondary gender reveal, as seen when Suah is horrified by how quickly he is becoming taller than Juhyeok and immediately trying to hide his height by making himself seem shorter. Because, just like Bboong says in the note, if they would've developed into the secondary genders they thought they would, Juhyeok and Suah would've gotten married the second they legally could and had their own personal army of children at this point with zero angst - that's how much even Juhyeok loves Suah.
2. I think there is value in arguing that their sex scene wasn't entirely nonconsensual. While it is true that Juhyeok is more focused on his athletic career and Olympic aspirations at this exact time, he still physically and emotionally yearns for Suah and Suah alone. In childhood, it is clear that Juhyeok finds Suah attractive. However, even in adulthood, despite him not admitting it out loud, we can see that Juhyeok is attracted to Suah. He admires his physique (even if it is envious), he agrees in his own way with Suah's classmates that Suah has a pretty face, he admires Suah when they are sleeping, he hallucinates Suah when he is drunk and clings to him while admitting his real feelings for Suah when his inhibitions are lowered, and he panics when Suah doesn't immediately cum for him and feels fear about losing Suah or at least his value to Suah when questioning if Suah is still attracted to him.
Additionally, Suah might be an alpha and have some physical supremacy over him (especially if he cheats by pumping out his pheromones), but let's be realistic for a second. Juhyeok is a professional martial artist who can easily hold his own against guys exponentially larger than Suah or other national champions. As someone being seriously considered for the Olympics, do we really think that, if Juhyeok really really REALLY didn't want to have sex with Suah, or that he felt like he was categorically being raped by Suah, that he couldn't have just physically gotten out from under Suah and overpowered him with some Judo move? Suah has absolutely zero martial arts experience, and aside from the extra physical strength as an alpha, if Juhyeok were to really get serious, there is absolutely no way in hell he wouldn't have fought like a rabid Tasmanian devil with his Judo skill and finesse. It's not even debatable. Juhyeok would have won in a real fight between the two of them, even at his disadvantage as an omega influenced by pheromones.
The way the sex scene read between them, rather than being full on rape, was more like Juhyeok being confused and conflicted in his role as the bottom, battling internally as to whether or not he can let go of his pride/ego and actually admit that he wants to be intimate with Suah when he spent so many years honing this dynamic of rejecting Suah, and then having the hindsight to be enraged about the fact that he could've seriously gotten pregnant.
Also people like please. Let's be so fucking forreal. Who in their right mind let's a homie jerk them off and cum on their face, then continue to engage in this dynamic of acting as a willing and obedient cum dumpster for the sake of winning at a sport if there were zero physical or emotional attraction present? That sounds completely insane. The only people to exhibit that level of pathologic determination in order to achieve a goal are drug addicts. And while I admire Juhyeok's bullheaded tenacity when it comes to reaching his goal, he isn't desperate enough to seek cum elsewhere when Suah finally gets fed up with being used and leaves Juhyeok cumless. If it was really only about being better at Judo, Juhyeok is smart enough to know that he could readily just get the cum from the old man or quite literally any other alpha in a pinch. Someone solely there to improve martial arts training would've realized that and just taken the Machiavelian approach (i.e. I need cum, I don't care where I get it from). Even after Suah enforces conditions onto whether or not Juhyeok can get his cum (going on dates at least once a week, going all the way before the next load, etc.), if Juhyeok didn't want to have sex with Suah (who very clearly made his intentions explicitly clear from the get go), he could've bounced and found someone else to jerk off without having to go all the way. It was never about getting cum to go to the Olympics, because he never shows any inclination to seek cum elsewhere.
3. I've seen many people write that they hate Suah and find him irredeemable. While I am not excusing any of his behavior, there are again a few things that need to be taken with a grain of salt in the context of an omegaverse.
Firstly, it is impossible for any of us to judge either character objectively without bias seeing as we do not live in an omegaverse in real life and cannot empathize with what the characters are experiencing. Sexually, both Juhyeok and Suah are closer to wild animals than they are to people. Never will any of us experience a rut or a "heat" as described here. So when Suah starts fucking Juhyeok in a complete frenzy of madness, repeating over and over again that he is sorry and he cannot stop, it may be a time to showSuah even a fraction of grace. Because, in that moment, it really did feel believable. To go from the demure, submissive child version of Suah and still see the caring yet fervently devoted to Juhyeok side of Suah in adulthood makes the character believable. He didn't have a complete 180 personality change after his secondary gender manifested, and retained a majority of who he was at his core over the years. However, where I find the writing to be ingenius, is the little snippets of alpha Suah that manage to break free and rear their ugly heads. Where his eyes become crazed and white, how intoxicated he gets lusting after Juhyeok when he falls into breedable positions/smells him/tastes him, how vulgarly he speaks to Juhyeok on these rare occasions ("I'll make sure to fuck you deep") when otherwise being overall very nonaggressive in conversation, how he became possesed with the urge to bite Juhyeok and the only legitamte restraint he had was to bite himself so hard he began bleeding all over Juhyeok's neck.
Like yeah, I do think people should have enough self control to stop when someone says stop in real life? Of course. But when I was reading these scenes I honestly did not feel like I was looking at a person anymore. Like it really felt like I was inside the mind of a wild animal, and that is exactly what Juhyeok's aunt tried to impress upon Juhyeok when she warned him that alpha's are ACTUALY. FUCKING. DANGEROUS. during rut. While I wish Suah had stopped and listened to Juhyeok while they were having sex, a part of me feels bad for him because it really seemed like the sheer influence of a secondary gender can sometimes be so overpowering it makes you inadvertently hurt the person you wish would never intentionally hurt. I mean, the alpha urges seemed so potent that it completely railroaded Suah's sole conviction in life, which is to please Juhyeok in any way possible. I did not read it as malicious intent on Suah's part. And again, living among alpha's is seen as so dangerous due to their biological alpha urges, there are literally medications (suppressants) made to both protect an omega from going in heat, but also for protecting an omega from triggering an alpha to pounce on them in rut. Just one moment of Juhyeok going a little bit out of control after running away from Suah in the beginning, and already the entire street was stopped sniffing him, and four alpha's had made their way to assault him.
Secondly, Juhyeok may have been covered by Suah's pheromones for some time, but finding every single other alpha's pheromones so repulsive he likens the scent to that of a wild boar goes beyond just being accustomed to someone's influence on you. Let's think of this logically. Juhyeok rejects Suah immediately after they realize their secondary genders. Suah begins covering Juhyeok in his pheromones at the same time. If Juhyeok is disgusted by a strangers pheromones, how do you think he would react to smelling an alpha he ACTUALLY HATED FOR REAL (and not just pretend hated like he did with Suah)? Assuming emotional ties to people influence the perception of pheromones, it would have to be the worst smell in the entire universe to him. Because there is no way that every other alpha on the planet besides Suah quite literally smells like a pig. That would mean that all the other omegas would also be fucked over real good smelling these so called barnyard alphas. That's simply not the case. I'm sure, for another omega, the big Judo guy probably smells like a heavenly pine forest and not the pig rooting around in the dirt under the tree (as Juhyeok smells the big guy). Despite his many protests, he at least in some part consciously or subconsciously loves Suah because he has never found his pheromones to smell bad (not even at the beginning of the scenting, when the smell should've been the most obvious and the most horrendous if he really hated Suah). Had he really hated Suah, he should've been unable to tolerate being covered in Suah's pheromones from the get go because they would've been so overpoweringly noxious.
Now I have a sneaky suspicion that Juhyeok is a special case, and that normal suppressants don't work on him because of his recessive nature, so his mother has secretly been using Suah's blood to create the suppressants (hence why his last batch took such a long time to make and why only his mother seems to have the capacity to make them, despite their being an abundant and flourishing suppressant branch of the pharmaceutical sector). This is venturing into an ethically and morally questionable area, since we don't know how chronic exposure to a biologic substance derived from another person can alter the receiver (and may even be some form of nonconsensual derivative of body modification/medical assault against the receiver's will). But again, this is speculation. And who knows, maybe the omegaverse logic behind suppressants made from an alpha's blood is that they only work if the omega loves/accepts the alpha and that would just explain it all away - I don't really know.
Lastly, I think the anger Juhyeok feels towards his sexual encounter with Suah stems mostly from the fact that he could've gotten pregnant. Many AFAB individuals in real life can probably relate to what a violating betrayal it can be for a AMAB partner to not seriously consider the implications of what pregnancy truly entails and how unprotected sex can genuinely be like an actual threat to on your life. Juhyeok is 100% in the right to hate Suah for that. But, in Suah's defense, as it is in real life with many AMAB individuals, he can only sympathize with Juhyeok as to how selfish and fucked up he was for cumming in Juhyeok, but he can not and never will be able to empathize with the severity of his actions seeing as a he will never have to fear for his life or feel his life threatened by pregnancy. He simply is not equipped with the capacity to sincerely understand the gravity of the position he put Juhyeok in in that moment. And while he had the discernment to empty the cum out of Juhyeok and give him the morning after pill after the fact, there is still the disturbing parallel that depicts how polarizing the consequences of unprotected sex can be for each party involved (i.e. AFAB may feel completely and utterly betrayed by the love of their life while AMAB individual does not comprehend why or how unforgivable their actions were at the time). I feel for Juhyeok here because I too find it so inconceivable when a man is perplexed by how obstinate I can get regarding the seriousness of which I take safe sex and how adamant I am about not taking any chances because, to me, it should be obvious that one moment of pleasure should not override the literal safety of my life, but I kind of see the perspective from the other side now. Like, to Juhyeok and to myself, it feels like a completely personal attack and a devaluation of my life. But maybe, to Suah and to men, it isn't a risk they will ever know so, to some degree, how could they get it if they will never walk in my shoes? I don't know. It brings up many contentious feelings for sure.
4. There are complaints that Suah is overbearing for stalking/harassing Juhyeok. I cannot argue that Suah's behavior might be seen as somewhat disturbing. But, again, Bboong's writing is so good, because it is extremely relatable. People that have a compulsive/obsessive type of love for others will follow their crush around, want to spend time with them, try to protect them, get jealous if they are not getting attention, want to see their crush wearing their clothes (which I find analogous to Suah coating Juhyeok in his pheromones), etc. Is it toxic? Yes. Can I stand here atop a high horse and judge Suah's actions with conviction? No. Because I have even found myself doing the exact same thing, if not in such an obvious way. Even Suah's internal monologue, plotting/scheming on how to spend more time with Juhyeok, playing the long game, manipulating the conversation/situation with cunning to drive things his way. It was like looking in a mirror. This isn't defending what Suah does, but labeling Suah the villain for these things at least is unrealistic and simple minded. Nothing is ever completely black or white, and the writing of this story does a very honest and effective job of actively portraying the shades of gray when it comes to love, rejection, desperation and frustration.
Similarly, if Juhyeok genuinely wanted Suah to leave him alone, he could have either verbally expressed that and been steadfast in his words without wavering (i.e. "I hate you, I feel no attraction to you, I want you to leave me alone, I will never be with you), or he could have gone above and beyond and really just shown Suah that he wanted nothing to do with him by either flirting with as many other people as possible in front of Suah or dating someone and focusing his attention on showing how much he did not want Suah by being with someone else, even if the relationship with the other person were fake and just a repellant to get Suah to leave him alone. This is quite literally like chapter 1 in the "How to Get Someone You Don't Like to Leave You Alone by Hurting Them as Badly as Possible" playbook. I mean, even with Suah's pathological obsession with Juhyeok, the totality of that kind of rejection would've been enough to make him lose at least some hope and back off a little bit. And if not, Juhyeok could've always filed a police report or something for harassment. But he doesn't. In fact, when Suah stops following him the first time, he marvels at how long its been since he walked home alone (implying that, despite his many tantrums and outburst about wanting to be left alone, he has tolerated Suah's company more than reluctantly). When Suah stops coming to see him completely, his ego is again bruised enough that he seeks Suah out himself and even kisses him when he realizes he may actually lose Suah for real. So, even though it appears that he doesn't enjoy Suah following him around like a lost puppy on the outside, it is practically spoon fed to readers that his prickly exterior is simply a front, and that he cannot live without Suah in reality.
Whether anyone else agrees with these perspectives has yet to be revealed, but I think I am in the minority here. However, I think the story and art are beautifully written, and am awaiting the return of Season 2 with bated breath.
I love this story and art seeing as this is my favorite creator. However, reading some of these comments, I feel like I need to play devils advocate for a second. This is going to be long and I don't expect many people to read it, but I really needed to get this off my chest.
Everyone is hating on Suah and taking a pretty affirmative stance categorically inexcusing his behavior. However, I think there are a few points that I think just need to be brought into context.
1. Juhyeok is and has always been in love with Suah. They are soulmates and have been depicted as such. From the very beginning, it is very clearly shown that Juhyeok has deep feelings for Suah. He makes him a flower crown, gets the scar above his eye protecting Suah, makes a pledge that he will always protect Suah, carries Suah with his bare hands even though it meant getting covered in Suah's urine and not showing even the slightest bit of disgust, asks Suah to marry him on numerous occasions, and even makes a birthday wish that is literally just for Juhyeok to marry Suah.
Okay, can all of this be written off as a silly childhood crush? Fine, maybe. But there is also something to be said about spending the formative childhood years with someone and developing romantic feelings for them at a young age. They were raised together. Most if not all of their core memories growing up are with each other. Even after the secondary gender reveal, their parents continue to help raise the other. That is not something that can be easily dismissed. The one who was clearly more obsessive, protective and possessive at the onset has obviously been Juhyeok.
The only reason tension begins to form in their relationship is because of their secondary genders being the complete opposite of what they had essentially created their entire identities tied to. While Juhyeok feels resentment for himself due to his internalized repulsion of being an omega, the reason he lashes out at Suah isn't out of jealousy that Suah is an alpha - it's because he had made so many promises to the person he loves, envisioning the life that they would have in their future (which he never hesitated to claim would be together) and the role he would play for Suah in this future together, that he now believes he cannot keep (i.e. protecting Suah, fathering their children, etc.). He believes he has disappointed Suah and these expectations he thinks Suah has of him, leading to him being blinded by his own egocentrism.
In the same vein, Suah also is completely repulsed by his secondary gender as an alpha, seeing as he views this as a very real threat to his current and future relationship with Juhyeok, which he cherishes over anything and everything. And he is correct in his fear, seeing as exactly what he was afraid of happening (Juhyeok rejecting him) did in fact come true. Unlike Juhyeok though, Suah has none of the egotism of Juhyeok and very quickly realizes that his love for Juhyeok is not conditional on what role they would play in the relationship (i.e. with regards to his relationship with Juhyeok, their secondary genders don't matter to him, because he knows that the actual important thing is that they continue spending time together - he doesn't care if that is as an alpha, omega, beta, whatever). We can see Suah desperately attempting to cling onto their dynamic of Alpha Juhyeok and Omega Suah even after the secondary gender reveal, as seen when Suah is horrified by how quickly he is becoming taller than Juhyeok and immediately trying to hide his height by making himself seem shorter. Because, just like Bboong says in the note, if they would've developed into the secondary genders they thought they would, Juhyeok and Suah would've gotten married the second they legally could and had their own personal army of children at this point with zero angst - that's how much even Juhyeok loves Suah.
2. I think there is value in arguing that their sex scene wasn't entirely nonconsensual. While it is true that Juhyeok is more focused on his athletic career and Olympic aspirations at this exact time, he still physically and emotionally yearns for Suah and Suah alone. In childhood, it is clear that Juhyeok finds Suah attractive. However, even in adulthood, despite him not admitting it out loud, we can see that Juhyeok is attracted to Suah. He admires his physique (even if it is envious), he agrees in his own way with Suah's classmates that Suah has a pretty face, he admires Suah when they are sleeping, he hallucinates Suah when he is drunk and clings to him while admitting his real feelings for Suah when his inhibitions are lowered, and he panics when Suah doesn't immediately cum for him and feels fear about losing Suah or at least his value to Suah when questioning if Suah is still attracted to him.
Additionally, Suah might be an alpha and have some physical supremacy over him (especially if he cheats by pumping out his pheromones), but let's be realistic for a second. Juhyeok is a professional martial artist who can easily hold his own against guys exponentially larger than Suah or other national champions. As someone being seriously considered for the Olympics, do we really think that, if Juhyeok really really REALLY didn't want to have sex with Suah, or that he felt like he was categorically being raped by Suah, that he couldn't have just physically gotten out from under Suah and overpowered him with some Judo move? Suah has absolutely zero martial arts experience, and aside from the extra physical strength as an alpha, if Juhyeok were to really get serious, there is absolutely no way in hell he wouldn't have fought like a rabid Tasmanian devil with his Judo skill and finesse. It's not even debatable. Juhyeok would have won in a real fight between the two of them, even at his disadvantage as an omega influenced by pheromones.
The way the sex scene read between them, rather than being full on rape, was more like Juhyeok being confused and conflicted in his role as the bottom, battling internally as to whether or not he can let go of his pride/ego and actually admit that he wants to be intimate with Suah when he spent so many years honing this dynamic of rejecting Suah, and then having the hindsight to be enraged about the fact that he could've seriously gotten pregnant.
Also people like please. Let's be so fucking forreal. Who in their right mind let's a homie jerk them off and cum on their face, then continue to engage in this dynamic of acting as a willing and obedient cum dumpster for the sake of winning at a sport if there were zero physical or emotional attraction present? That sounds completely insane. The only people to exhibit that level of pathologic determination in order to achieve a goal are drug addicts. And while I admire Juhyeok's bullheaded tenacity when it comes to reaching his goal, he isn't desperate enough to seek cum elsewhere when Suah finally gets fed up with being used and leaves Juhyeok cumless. If it was really only about being better at Judo, Juhyeok is smart enough to know that he could readily just get the cum from the old man or quite literally any other alpha in a pinch. Someone solely there to improve martial arts training would've realized that and just taken the Machiavelian approach (i.e. I need cum, I don't care where I get it from). Even after Suah enforces conditions onto whether or not Juhyeok can get his cum (going on dates at least once a week, going all the way before the next load, etc.), if Juhyeok didn't want to have sex with Suah (who very clearly made his intentions explicitly clear from the get go), he could've bounced and found someone else to jerk off without having to go all the way. It was never about getting cum to go to the Olympics, because he never shows any inclination to seek cum elsewhere.
3. I've seen many people write that they hate Suah and find him irredeemable. While I am not excusing any of his behavior, there are again a few things that need to be taken with a grain of salt in the context of an omegaverse.
Firstly, it is impossible for any of us to judge either character objectively without bias seeing as we do not live in an omegaverse in real life and cannot empathize with what the characters are experiencing. Sexually, both Juhyeok and Suah are closer to wild animals than they are to people. Never will any of us experience a rut or a "heat" as described here. So when Suah starts fucking Juhyeok in a complete frenzy of madness, repeating over and over again that he is sorry and he cannot stop, it may be a time to showSuah even a fraction of grace. Because, in that moment, it really did feel believable. To go from the demure, submissive child version of Suah and still see the caring yet fervently devoted to Juhyeok side of Suah in adulthood makes the character believable. He didn't have a complete 180 personality change after his secondary gender manifested, and retained a majority of who he was at his core over the years. However, where I find the writing to be ingenius, is the little snippets of alpha Suah that manage to break free and rear their ugly heads. Where his eyes become crazed and white, how intoxicated he gets lusting after Juhyeok when he falls into breedable positions/smells him/tastes him, how vulgarly he speaks to Juhyeok on these rare occasions ("I'll make sure to fuck you deep") when otherwise being overall very nonaggressive in conversation, how he became possesed with the urge to bite Juhyeok and the only legitamte restraint he had was to bite himself so hard he began bleeding all over Juhyeok's neck.
Like yeah, I do think people should have enough self control to stop when someone says stop in real life? Of course. But when I was reading these scenes I honestly did not feel like I was looking at a person anymore. Like it really felt like I was inside the mind of a wild animal, and that is exactly what Juhyeok's aunt tried to impress upon Juhyeok when she warned him that alpha's are ACTUALY. FUCKING. DANGEROUS. during rut. While I wish Suah had stopped and listened to Juhyeok while they were having sex, a part of me feels bad for him because it really seemed like the sheer influence of a secondary gender can sometimes be so overpowering it makes you inadvertently hurt the person you wish would never intentionally hurt. I mean, the alpha urges seemed so potent that it completely railroaded Suah's sole conviction in life, which is to please Juhyeok in any way possible. I did not read it as malicious intent on Suah's part. And again, living among alpha's is seen as so dangerous due to their biological alpha urges, there are literally medications (suppressants) made to both protect an omega from going in heat, but also for protecting an omega from triggering an alpha to pounce on them in rut. Just one moment of Juhyeok going a little bit out of control after running away from Suah in the beginning, and already the entire street was stopped sniffing him, and four alpha's had made their way to assault him.
Secondly, Juhyeok may have been covered by Suah's pheromones for some time, but finding every single other alpha's pheromones so repulsive he likens the scent to that of a wild boar goes beyond just being accustomed to someone's influence on you. Let's think of this logically. Juhyeok rejects Suah immediately after they realize their secondary genders. Suah begins covering Juhyeok in his pheromones at the same time. If Juhyeok is disgusted by a strangers pheromones, how do you think he would react to smelling an alpha he ACTUALLY HATED FOR REAL (and not just pretend hated like he did with Suah)? Assuming emotional ties to people influence the perception of pheromones, it would have to be the worst smell in the entire universe to him. Because there is no way that every other alpha on the planet besides Suah quite literally smells like a pig. That would mean that all the other omegas would also be fucked over real good smelling these so called barnyard alphas. That's simply not the case. I'm sure, for another omega, the big Judo guy probably smells like a heavenly pine forest and not the pig rooting around in the dirt under the tree (as Juhyeok smells the big guy). Despite his many protests, he at least in some part consciously or subconsciously loves Suah because he has never found his pheromones to smell bad (not even at the beginning of the scenting, when the smell should've been the most obvious and the most horrendous if he really hated Suah). Had he really hated Suah, he should've been unable to tolerate being covered in Suah's pheromones from the get go because they would've been so overpoweringly noxious.
Now I have a sneaky suspicion that Juhyeok is a special case, and that normal suppressants don't work on him because of his recessive nature, so his mother has secretly been using Suah's blood to create the suppressants (hence why his last batch took such a long time to make and why only his mother seems to have the capacity to make them, despite their being an abundant and flourishing suppressant branch of the pharmaceutical sector). This is venturing into an ethically and morally questionable area, since we don't know how chronic exposure to a biologic substance derived from another person can alter the receiver (and may even be some form of nonconsensual derivative of body modification/medical assault against the receiver's will). But again, this is speculation. And who knows, maybe the omegaverse logic behind suppressants made from an alpha's blood is that they only work if the omega loves/accepts the alpha and that would just explain it all away - I don't really know.
Lastly, I think the anger Juhyeok feels towards his sexual encounter with Suah stems mostly from the fact that he could've gotten pregnant. Many AFAB individuals in real life can probably relate to what a violating betrayal it can be for a AMAB partner to not seriously consider the implications of what pregnancy truly entails and how unprotected sex can genuinely be like an actual threat to on your life. Juhyeok is 100% in the right to hate Suah for that. But, in Suah's defense, as it is in real life with many AMAB individuals, he can only sympathize with Juhyeok as to how selfish and fucked up he was for cumming in Juhyeok, but he can not and never will be able to empathize with the severity of his actions seeing as a he will never have to fear for his life or feel his life threatened by pregnancy. He simply is not equipped with the capacity to sincerely understand the gravity of the position he put Juhyeok in in that moment. And while he had the discernment to empty the cum out of Juhyeok and give him the morning after pill after the fact, there is still the disturbing parallel that depicts how polarizing the consequences of unprotected sex can be for each party involved (i.e. AFAB may feel completely and utterly betrayed by the love of their life while AMAB individual does not comprehend why or how unforgivable their actions were at the time). I feel for Juhyeok here because I too find it so inconceivable when a man is perplexed by how obstinate I can get regarding the seriousness of which I take safe sex and how adamant I am about not taking any chances because, to me, it should be obvious that one moment of pleasure should not override the literal safety of my life, but I kind of see the perspective from the other side now. Like, to Juhyeok and to myself, it feels like a completely personal attack and a devaluation of my life. But maybe, to Suah and to men, it isn't a risk they will ever know so, to some degree, how could they get it if they will never walk in my shoes? I don't know. It brings up many contentious feelings for sure.
4. There are complaints that Suah is overbearing for stalking/harassing Juhyeok. I cannot argue that Suah's behavior might be seen as somewhat disturbing. But, again, Bboong's writing is so good, because it is extremely relatable. People that have a compulsive/obsessive type of love for others will follow their crush around, want to spend time with them, try to protect them, get jealous if they are not getting attention, want to see their crush wearing their clothes (which I find analogous to Suah coating Juhyeok in his pheromones), etc. Is it toxic? Yes. Can I stand here atop a high horse and judge Suah's actions with conviction? No. Because I have even found myself doing the exact same thing, if not in such an obvious way. Even Suah's internal monologue, plotting/scheming on how to spend more time with Juhyeok, playing the long game, manipulating the conversation/situation with cunning to drive things his way. It was like looking in a mirror. This isn't defending what Suah does, but labeling Suah the villain for these things at least is unrealistic and simple minded. Nothing is ever completely black or white, and the writing of this story does a very honest and effective job of actively portraying the shades of gray when it comes to love, rejection, desperation and frustration.
Similarly, if Juhyeok genuinely wanted Suah to leave him alone, he could have either verbally expressed that and been steadfast in his words without wavering (i.e. "I hate you, I feel no attraction to you, I want you to leave me alone, I will never be with you), or he could have gone above and beyond and really just shown Suah that he wanted nothing to do with him by either flirting with as many other people as possible in front of Suah or dating someone and focusing his attention on showing how much he did not want Suah by being with someone else, even if the relationship with the other person were fake and just a repellant to get Suah to leave him alone. This is quite literally like chapter 1 in the "How to Get Someone You Don't Like to Leave You Alone by Hurting Them as Badly as Possible" playbook. I mean, even with Suah's pathological obsession with Juhyeok, the totality of that kind of rejection would've been enough to make him lose at least some hope and back off a little bit. And if not, Juhyeok could've always filed a police report or something for harassment. But he doesn't. In fact, when Suah stops following him the first time, he marvels at how long its been since he walked home alone (implying that, despite his many tantrums and outburst about wanting to be left alone, he has tolerated Suah's company more than reluctantly). When Suah stops coming to see him completely, his ego is again bruised enough that he seeks Suah out himself and even kisses him when he realizes he may actually lose Suah for real. So, even though it appears that he doesn't enjoy Suah following him around like a lost puppy on the outside, it is practically spoon fed to readers that his prickly exterior is simply a front, and that he cannot live without Suah in reality.
Whether anyone else agrees with these perspectives has yet to be revealed, but I think I am in the minority here. However, I think the story and art are beautifully written, and am awaiting the return of Season 2 with bated breath.