I can't really find a reason to agree and feel happy to what Ulysses been doing to his 'interest/s'. I do like his character but that part? Nah. Anw, thanks for the update!
Sys is a very specific type of toxic gay cliche that's being framed as comedic and "cute" and I just have never been able to like him because of that. I have no problem with femme men at all nor dominant femme men. It's the fact that he's a predator and sadistic, in a way that he gets off on emasculating his sexual interests against their will until they submit to him even if they haven't harmed him. It's a very specific trope that has been used agaisnt gay men for a very long time as framing them as vilians but here it's ignored and encouraged because he's an ally to our main characters.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if for example Randolph and these other men
Sys "plays with" actually liked Sys back and were not emotionally and physically broken in to submit to Sys's whims and desires.
It's cruel but again it's seen as cute and even funny simply because Sys is frailer than his victims. This dynamic is seen repeatedly show in cross dressing x hyper masculine BL plots or the femme seme x buff uke plots whereoften the physical desparity is remedied by incapacitating the larger submissive partner to allow future rape, sexual abuse/assault or forced affection and it be excused that the more physically bigger partner should be able to fight or prevent their asault simply by being physically stronger regardless of the present situation discouraging their escape or ability to withstand their abuse. Especially in comparison to femme ukes who are expected to expected to being raped as they are just a stand in for female readers who can project enough but disassociate from male bodies being violated. Even more solidifying the harness stereotype "men can't be raped".
I know others don't mind this dynamic but as a gay kid growing up it made me very aware how straight men think of gay men as wanting to force our gayness on them and the "threat" I posed to their masculinity.
What he did to randolp was wrong but here I think there was a little justification, Sihav & Enoch were gonna use him & test a drug on him, he just simply gave them a taste of their own medicine, not saying what hemdid was good but yall need look atnthis scene with full context and stop saying he a rapist when he isn't
still he did rape them while they weren't going to do any sexual shit with him and were very nice for people that were going to use him for drugs. the difference is, they need money to live and didn't have any other choice but to do it, Sys had a choice and didn't have to rape people with drugs but still choose to do so! and that is disguating!
I should clarify that Sys DIDNT rape, he did assault them. I included rape in my comment in reference to the KIND OF ACTIONS committed by the archetype Sys represents. We won't know what Sys did until we have the Mature version of the plot but based on what Sys has done in the past( technically future) by way of Randolph, Sys has no problem sexually assaulting. The fact that his now bodyguards are accepting of Sys treatment of them is a separate issue, as well as Sys's near assassination remedied by simply ooverpowering his would be assailants by drugjng performing sexual implied acts rather than escape but chose to indulge his sexual whims. It went beyond self preservation into fulfilling his kinks and more importantly the kinks of said readers. It's simply for the audience's sake not a rational way of storytelling given the situation Sys found himself in. I don't think it's fair to say Sys is some evil incarnate nor would I say that but he is problematic to some degree. You can clearly tell the people who just haven't experienced the fear of being associted with the stereotype Sys protrays in the comment section defending his behavior. This is so clearly from a straight woman's perspective because queer men would know how villanized femme men are portrayed in both the straight and gay community.







anyways, they got their happy ending. happy for them both.