revisiting this and it’s just like… this shit has no depth at all and hyou genuinely has the shittiest excuse to rape and abuse his little brother for fuck all reason dad abused mom = oh okay i will abuse my little brother. mom stayed with dad through the abuse = okay i will stay and be abused by my older brother.
i know this sounds bad but if you’re gonna do incest, do it interestingly at least. it just feels like cheap shock value shit. hyou fucks his brother but let’s also add abuse, humiliation, and rape too… you know what did incest and tragedy interestingly? “an uncomfortable truth” by EErun. it’s clear the mangaka had no interest in making meaningful commentary on the cycle of abuse and the taboo of incest because hyou does a 180° personality change the SECOND setsu voiced (a very valid) concern about not having enough money, a safe space, and overworking hyou. before this point, he was eager to protect and hear out setsu, he even fought with his inner self and for what for them both to decide they should start raping setsu? he didn’t even contemplate it that hard clearly he knew right from wrong at the beginning… did hitting setsu really feel THAT good that he just HAD to dye his hair and become a horrible person, effectively becoming his father, the person he hated most? does he realize he could have thought about for more than 2 seconds before fucking over setsu’s life forever until he or them both get intensive therapy? he doesn’t confront anything that makes him uncomfortable, like slamming down their family portrait, and this would’ve been more interesting if he showed more remorse for treating setsu the way he does, but still being unable to control himself. instead it just seems like he wants to rape and beat setsu. and he does this on purpose! so that he scares setsu into never going back to their father! boy your father wasn’t out here raping you both on top of the verbal humiliation and beatings! you’re out here doing all three to setsu!! YOURE WORSE THAN YOUR OWN ABUSER!!!????
9 times out of 10, abusive people have a fragility somewhere, that being their mental state, ego, pride, etc. the story treats hyou as someone rather sane and that setsu is the one actually paying for his crimes of daring to voice his opinions that one time. while it’s realistic that setsu feels inadequate and like a failure, it doesn’t matter in the end because the author wants them to be together and just be the uke to his seme. bruh like actual bruh moment
