IMO, why people can't distinguish the characters:
1) people don't pay attention to details, all these people are different and I had no issue with knowing who is who.
2) I think *the biggest reason is there is there is no usual childish tiny uke/ big mean seme trope*. They are all adult men and artist portrays them as adult men, including their faces. It's adult story with adult artstyle and it shows that this is very rare in manga/manhwa scene (I mean there's plenty of stories like this, just they are not easy read slop and are rarely popular.)
3) They are all average handsome adult men, so they are kinda similar, but not identical because handsome features need to be specific to be considered handsome.
4) artist let's them grow and change, ie dye the hair, grow tall etc . It's so rare in comics, that when it happens, people are surprised and confused, because woojin didn't have his hair blond and spiked in high school and choi isn't a natural redhead (he's Korean, so duh).
I personally think that the artist could work some on drawing faces from profile view and could lean slightly into caricature, to make the differences bigger, but genuinely I think when it comes to art, I think that amid clip studio 3d slop this one shines through as the artist has actual drawing skills and doesn't do another copy catted manga-big-eyes thing, but goes their own path. I only wish they had proper time to draw and produce high quality they are truly capable of.
No the first part was hella confusing cus they have different hair color in high school. That was me in the beginning. I had to focus on the story to get used to it
Lmfao why wouldnt one focus on the manhwa they are reading from the very beginning.People like that exist?
Haha focus on their eyes you can distinguish it
That was me reading this cus i got nothing else to read so I wasn't really the hooked or interested.
What? So what? Their faces are distinctive enough, PLUS, if you paid attention, you'd notice that other characters name them, so it's super easy to figure out that hairdressers in that universe exist and characters can change hair after 15 years.
Because lotsa people read those to fill up time, not to read. Like you watch soap operas, you don't really watch them for plot, just fill in the silence when you're ironing a pile. On top of that, reading and comprehension are different skillset. That's it.
Yes and I said I didn't pay attention. Chill out girl it's not that deep.
Plus let's be real the artist do draw their character pretty similarly. They're built similarly. Plus yes I know they had their hair colored changed but the confusing part was who's hair color had this color when they were young. Reading this while it was ongoing was also a facter because I had to refresh my memory when it updates.
Omg not trying to be mean but it's hard to believe(although I do)that people like u exist.i would never read or watch something i do not like or am not interested(heavily)in but u do u ig
Ah, as for the articles and rumors- we're talking about South Korea, idols are killing themselves over a dating rumor or minor DUI situation, because they can't stand the pressure cooker there.
The societal pressure is at least a bit realistic plot point. It's just it's badly written.
There's is something absolutely wrong about hiw this story is written, it's not about the tropes, but about the story beats and structure itself. There is no tension. No character inner conflict, they don't seem to be actual characters, just stand ins for a BL tropes.
Like they are all over-exaggerating and not reacting enough at the same time. It also feels like a baby's first story posted on watpadd at 15. Mustache twirling villain, mcguffin pregnancy, characters that stumble over their own shoelaces upon a plot.
Main characters have no agency and they just accept what happens to them. That makes them boring and isn't good way to create tension. To be fair I laughed at this chapter's plot, with villains big speech. Like, would he break into a Disney villain song next?
I have no idea what is happening, but Moscareto is genuinely good writer. It seems either she has a bet to write the shittiest story to get out of a publishing contract or something. Or she left the writing to the artist.
I want more babies....~~~~~ gimme~~
ThonI must admit, this is likely one of very very few mangas/mantras that the artist has stricken great balance between their style and actual baby-ness of the babies, so they don't look like creepy bug eyed aliens and are in fact super cute.
There was a moment in thus story when it was good sci fi and could easily go i to mindfuck body horror.
But ni, nevermind, it's just another flamvour of a harem story with way too much sex.
The name is salty LUST u expected what?????
Fuck off
Chill out man, why so much anger?
Could you ask the same, why being a cunt in your first comment.
Hence, without anger and kindly, fuck off. I have no patience for people like you.
Thanks for explaining so I will also explain that my first response was not me being a cunt! Here It goes:
Thank you for sharing your opinion. It is perfectly understandable that the amount of adult content may not be to the liking of all readers. However, it is important to consider the work within the context of its intended purpose from the beginning. Salty Lust was conceived as a work aimed at an adult audience, and this type of content is not an incidental element, but a central characteristic of its narrative identity. For this reason, criticizing the work for containing exactly the type of content it advertises may result from an expectation incompatible with its purpose. This does not mean that the reader is obliged to appreciate it, but rather that the evaluation should take into account the objectives that the work aims to fulfill, and not those of a different genre or audience.
And that's what I was going after, I know that text can be dry and soulless but you don't need to read it like it's to tick u off! Just because someone uses ANY kind of resources to make a word more apparent doesn't mean they're screaming at u, maybe they are but you don't need to swear, anyway I hope u have a good day and read the tags when starting a new story!
see pieces of shit like this is why we cant have nice things. "no patience" im sorry who the fuck asked?
"why being a cunt" dude, the only one being a cunt (negative) here is you,,,, literally all they did was point the very obvious title and ask what you expected,,, it's not like they were cussing you out (like you did) lmao
Let it be~ thanks for defending me tough but it's better not provoke him more, maybe he's having a bad week or something
Too long, I don't care what you have to say.
You came to me with unnecessarily antagonistic comment chiding me for expecting quality from a story and liking bits of it that are not 5v1 mid porn. What did you expect to happen? For me to say "silly me, sorry for thinking I may have an opinion?" Don't answer.
What I expected from title? Absolutely nothing. Nada. I didn't even register it, because I don't care about titles unless I'm buying a recommended book. Also, the translation is wrong, should be 'Stingy lust', salty is an idiom in this context.
So I have right to be annoyed by you and your attention seeking.
'I want abortion, but early miscarriage would be bad.' MC, who is clearly a schizo.
WTF, who thinks like this? Who writes this? Moscareto, you are better than this shit, what happened, did you rot your brain to the core with too much porn?
It's because abortion is a medical procedure and is mostly safe. If he goes through the legal way, the alpha would be informed and he will become an actual participant of getting rid of the baby. If through illegal way, alpha would probably live his whole life without knowing anything. Meanwhile, a miscarriage due to fucking is not only more painful and dangerous to his body but would mean that the alpha would discover he is pregnant and that he unknowingly killed the baby coz he was horny, so of course it would be bad, really bad.
someone get this 10yr old back to cocomelon bro
Like. What are you on?
Do you know the 'no sex in early pregnancy' thing that all the manga /manhwa authors like to quote, both in ABO and hetero, is taken out of the lecture at University of Arse?
It's one of those things that is constantly a plot point in those stories... and it's whatever in real life? You can't even really detect a pregnancy until 2-3 weeks and I doubt anyone stops having sex just after having it once a month, because they can "kill a baby".
"Violent sex"? What they have isn't really violet sex, it's defo intense, but let's not skew what they have into violence, will you? It cheapest what is actual violence to the point where everything 8s violence nothing is.
Also, had you have an early miscarriage, at first few weeks? You don't even notice it 90% of time, because it feels like irregular period at most. In a healthy woman, it's literally nothing physically.
And the most important part - "Killing the baby due to misscariage"? What the fuck are you on? But no, what the fuck are you on?
This story is written in a very miserable way, I don't expect two 20 years old to be the epitome of being put together, but this here is just 'no communication porn' trope taken to the. Your comment might even be interesting if there was an ounce of world building that would sustain it, but we get absolutely nothing. We just get infuriating NPCs, who don't have a thought in their brains, which is shocking from this writer, on how not put together this story is.
The only way this doctor's behaviour is acceptable, if she snuck some pro choice org leaflet, but can't talk about this shit in the open.
That being said, I don't mind misery porn in my fiction, I just hate lazy worldbuilding and misery porn just for the sake of it. He can't get abortion right now? Cool, it's omega vers, we know this work differently there, just explain it why exactly he can't get abortion, is it law, is it biology, is it ultra Christian hospital he went to or simply there's admin stuff and the nearest appoontment can be made in a month? Like, dear author, don't be lazy pos and give us some kind of worlbuilding that we the Reader can get something tonunderstand what why and where.
Because this- it's just things for the sake of things. This is no plot, this is just boring, lazy writing.
So Geayson isn't some kind of masterminding psychopath, but bona fide spoilt idiotic nepo baby who was never told 'no, bad Grayson' in his life?
He's just too stupid to function like a human being?
That's actually hilarious.
It's sort of both actually haha. Grayson doesn't process or understand emotions the same way as others on account of his dominant genes that impact his brain basically. However there is also the whole he is a Miller child who can have anything and has been given a lot easily because his parents want to keep him busy. And it's not that he has never been told no, but that he's never actually been explained why he shouldn't do something bad and his lack of emotional understanding has just made that worse. When he poisoned his omega father, he was just beaten and not really explained anything. When he bullied (tried to "help") his brother Chase, he was either beaten or just never explained why tormenting his brother wasn't actually helpful. So yeah Grayson isn't a mastermind of shit because he runs on instinct and has never really faced hardship or really understood why he shouldn't make his life difficult by messing with other people. But he definitely can be cruel and manipulative on account that he doesn't understand why someone would be hurt by his actions.
So it's the parents' fault then
So in the end he's spoilt rotten.
At the most basic level yes. His omega father was not all that present with his kids because of the aforementioned poisoning (their alpha father separated them to protect his mate). His alpha father basically fried his brain self-harming by not releasing his pheromones, making him numb to anything but his mate. So Grayson's alpha father wasn't all that attached to his children and he disciplined them harshly, but did not know how to really approach them because he couldn't understand them at an emotional or psychological level. Which was made worse bc Grayson also couldn't understand emotions or normal human behavior, much like his other siblings who also struggle to live normal lives because their mentalities are not normal. If I remember correctly, one of Grayson's sisters basically runs a cult of omegas and is wanted by the police but obviously she's protected by her father because they care about each other as family, but they aren't normal about it enough to not hurt each other either.
Dang, thanks for the info! I just read some of bliss’ novel. It’s interesting that he seems to favor the youngest child because he’s the only omega and looks the most like koi. He seemed cold and strict with the other kids but was pretty sweet to Bliss even before finding out his trait
I think the parents only really protected Bliss. Chase was separated from his siblings through his acting work, but he was still raised alongside his siblings and his siblings still have easy access to Chase as adults. On the other hand, Bliss was sent away earlier to make sure he wasn't hurt and has less contact with his siblings.
Dang it seems Keith being a dominant alpha too is better (just a little bit)
Can you tell me why he poisoned his omega dad? And how old was he when he did that?
Grayson was barely 10 yr old ig. Grayson used to be a very curious child, his curiosity was more because unable to understand things. Koi due to some accident lost his sense of smell and taste. Ash used to be over concerned abt that fact in front of the children. Like he always taste the food first n things like tht. So grayson and stacy got curious why Ash do that as they never explained koi condition to children. They wanted to check if he actually can't taste anything. So he put detergent in his food when Ash wasn't there to check if he actually can't taste anything.
Grayson and Stacy couldn't understand anything when koi was struggling but Nathaniel was also there who able to understand what's goin on but he didn't do anything to stop grayson either. Ash came and saved koi and choked Grayson almost to death. Koi begged to spare that child life. Wht amused me that he punished Grayson only but didn't say anything to Nathaniel or Stacy.
Kieth, Ashley and Chase were all manifested late so they were basically normal and weren't affected by the Pheromones. They were absolutely normal with full understanding of emotions and sane decision makin capabilities.
Nathaniel was early manifested. So he was emotionless but was able to understand everything
Grayson and stacy were born dom Alphas that's why there system is completely broken and they have no sense of anything. They are just a hollow body in simple terms
The category is: misery porn!
The characters aren't even characters but stereotypes of sociopathic gangsta ML and fresh of the boat MC, who at least shows some fangs and tries to escape (and his attempts are the only thing that makes this kinda interesting, because it's so rare, that MC doesn'troll over and just take it).
I predict either chasing arc or murder- suicide. I hope for MC suiciding and ML rotting, because he magically can't live without being a cancer on MC's human rights (some magic woo woo about ML being aura vampire sucking water energy out of MC).