I’m suprized the author didn’t go with the typical “pay off your debt with your body” type of shit
It’s a good story but it’s just rape and then more rape and there’s like one scene that can be framed as consensual but then it goes back to rape the ending was decent tho
First off this had so much potential like so much and they had to ruin it with Liam being an asshole who can’t keep his dick in his pants and Derrick being obsessed with him ever since he was a kid like this is just weird and I don’t really like Yuri treating Nox like trash like this could have gone so many more ways but of course it ended up going the worst.
I love a story where the ass hole male lead doesn’t get to simply rape the Mc and somehow the mc ends up loving them for their crap I thought this was gonna be one of those stories but it’s seeming to form differently I hope it continues on that path.
I just have a feeling this might turn into doomed yaoi im preparing myself so bad
i don’t even know if this is true anymore but the author did say seth and horus is guaranteed to have a happy ending. i’m honestly dubious about her definition of “happiness”.
First of why r people hating on this cuz first off it’s an adaptation of course it’s gonna have changes and if you don’t like them move the fuck on ur whining ain’t gonna change anything and second why is the story so sad like damn that cliffhanger
It’s mainly because it undermines the novels themes of mutual healing and salvation (which is central and more sensitively portrayed in the novel,) and not to mention the non consensual scene with the antagonist and the mc, that goes on for 2 whole chapters btw, and from reading the raw’s they hardly touch on the psychological trauma and the impact the act should have had on the mc??
It felt like a plot device just to heighten the drama/antagonism rather than a serious event with lasting emotional weight.
Are you Dumb
You’re kinda right I am sorry for like undermining what you guys meant now it makes sense
Ngl it’s not what I was expecting I mean this in a good way of course
Vericon is a rapist and there’s no way I can get past that and just accept that he’s a tsundere of something because that doesn’t excuse his actions I know it’s fictional but even if it is romanticizing abuse is not okay
I get where you're coming from but I don't think Vercion raping Sunwon is romanticized in the general narrative though.
Sunwon is clearly a victim of SA due to his past relationship. Hence, in the moment where Vercion forced himself on Sunwon, he had a fawn trauma response and convinced himself "no, I'm not being violated, I'm enjoying his, this is all I'm good at" and opted to respond in a way that would please his assaulter rather than fighting against it due to fear.
We can see this in the way sunwon keeps on being careful with his reaction and how it contradicts with his thoughts. He goes along the lines of "If I keep on smiling, he (Vercion) will see me as less of a threat" "I just have to find the pleasure in the pain"
It seems romanticized because Sunwon is *trying* to romanticize the situation as a means of disregarding his own feelings and prevent more violent reactions from his assaulter.
Even after the first time he got assaulted by Vercion, he's been afraid of him since then. And even in the recent chapters, Sunwon only let go of what Vercion did to him in the previous chapters because Vercion, at that moment, in a foreign land, was the safest choice he can as a comforting. Especially since he was faced with someone who looked so much like his abusive ex.
It's because Sunwon is the narrative that makes Vercion seem redeemed, hence the rape looking romanticized. At least that's how I see it.
Because if we see the perspective of another character (take Albis for example), he acknowledges that what Vercion did to Sunwon was unforgivable and condemned him for that.
*safest choice he can see as comforting
Sunwon calls it worship and he'd usually be fine with it, but Vercion was just taking his anger out on Sunwon that's why Sunwon didn't like what he was doing, it wasn't because he sexually involved himself with him. Vercion became a better interest in the latest chapters, but the fact that he now is plotting murder is worrisome to say the least. I wish for the 3 of them to be together, i think that'd be a happy ending, since anyway the 2 interests are very important in the story.