God where do I even begin?
If it wasn’t obvious; Kim Dan and Jaekyung’s relationship is extremely toxic. When I read this it reminded me of another comic, in which I had similar complaints (but to a lesser degree cause holy shit this comic is actually ridiculous).
Nothing about their relationship in fair in any sense, there is no possible love for budding here because the supposed “main love interest” for this comic, Jaekyung doesn’t even think of Kim Dan as a person. He states it clearly in chapter 34 where he has Dan on his dick, blindfolded, gagged, and deaf by the earphones as he shows Choi Heesung, quote; “Take a good look Choi heesung…There is no relationship here, kim dan is my possession.”
Jaekyung takes his anger and frustrations out on kim dan, he dumps soda on him when hes slightly inconvenienced and humiliates him by fucking him in front of an uninvited guest he never consented to when he feels possessive.
When Kim dan begs for the slightest consideration, something as small as wearing a condom while they have sex, Jaekyung laughs in his face. He doesn’t have human decency to people he works with, and he certainly doesn’t have a shred of it to spare to kim dan who is practically his walking talking sex toy, there to help him let out his frustrations at the expense of Kim dans discomfort and humility.
In the face of Jaekyung, Kim dan loses all of his bodily autonomy and whenever Jaekyung wants it, he’s obliged to give it to him…it’s his job afterall to give up his body to the man who saved him.
Their relationship is disgusting and I look at Kim Dan with a heavy heart. Poverty-stricken, dealing with the possibility of loosing his grandmother and falling in love with your abuser is truly a sad combination of things.
Dan is kind and thoughtful, he worries for Jaekyung and is willing to bend over backwards even at the cost of his own expense because he truly has a full heart and to be frank is delusional enough to think his abuser has love for him as well.
Its almost a pathetic sight seeing Dan pick apart at the smallest, minuscule situations where Jaekyung is not berating him, where he is not raping him or giving him nasty glares as he acts like the man he invited into his house, who cares for him 24/7 is a common house roach and hold it close to his heart as a tender memory of them. It’s really sad.
Jaekyung truly doesn’t consider Kim dan at all, and its clear he doesn’t with the last chapter of this season where he is confused why Kim dan would possibly quit.
When I watched Jaekyung’s ex open the door to Dan and tell him to his face that he’d be thrown away just like he was, that he was nothing more than a tool in Jaekyung’s eyes, I couldn’t even get mad.
I couldn’t even truly be upset when he said that because it was the sad cold truth, Jaekyung was not his kind savior, he’s an abuser and took advantage of Kim dans poor situation to use him for sex and convenience. He did not save dan because he cared, he did it because it was more convenient.
In future chapters, I don’t hope that Jaekyung realizes his “love” or some shit, I don’t wish for him to grovel and beg for kim dan back because I don’t ever want Dan to ever see him again.
I don’t want kim dan to ever have to feel like he’s worthless or a “tool” in the eyes of someone he loves.
I hope he finds someone who will ask before they kiss him and make love to him gently like he craved, that he finds someone who will love him as genuinely as Kim dan does. I want his future partner to show him that what Jaekyung treated him like, the rape and humiliation he put him through— that it’s not something to be in love with. I hope he gets treated like a human.
So I don’t hope Jaekyung comes crawling back, I hope he gets what he deserves. For all the people he’s hurt and treated like crap, I hope it all comes back and his everything is ruined. That fucker doesn’t deserve Kim dan. I genuinely hope he fucking dies bro.
Sigh end of rant…it’s literally 5am and I haven’t sleep I just knew I had to let this out or it was gonna bug me. Jaekyung I hope you fucking die rot in hell you stupid fucking abusing rapist creep ass freak.
I loved this story, not only because I love BLs with heavy plot centered stories like this but the representation of depression and suicidal thoughts. When the mc says goodbye to his friends in a dream and makes new friends with the other characters, I couldn’t help myself and ended up tearing up. It makes my nose sour just typing it because letting go of something so heavy like guilt, gah it makes me wanna cry again. I really loved this story.
…though why is this tagged yaoi? i feel like this would be more realistically tagged shonen ai since there aren’t any explicit sex scenes they’re just ambiguous lolol.
I probably wouldn’t have found this plot uncomfortable to read if the mc was best friends not lovers in the future with the ml because it just makes everything forthcoming extremely odd and weird to read. Like yes I understand that the mc is 21 mentally but he is in the body of a 11 year old, am I not supposed to be weirded out and uncomfortable by the romantic undertones of a child and adult being together?? Its fucking weird bro
I feel like this age gap is so unnecessary to the plot like I promise you they could’ve had everything the same but made him an adult and it would’ve been even better, would’ve made the brother look like an actual weirdo because honestly I don’t even blame the brother for wacking that mf in the back of the head if some random ass adult man was taking my eleven year old brother out and I suspected he was a pedo, fuck I would’ve killed him too.
Idk you just can’t convince me this isn’t weird, like the expectation is that they’re supposed to fall back in love together but we’re watching a child (yes an adult mentally but CHILD BODY) and a grown man be the romantic characters is weird. I’m definitely not finishing this.
also b4 anyone says anything ik the brother is a creep but not the point of my statement
100% agree and heck I support the bro.... if a random adult starts hanging around my pre teen lil sibling I'm throwing hands ....and the yeah the age gap irks me too I get scarlet beriko loves huge age gaps but maybe in this story she should have changed it up a bit ┗( T﹏T )┛