I'm not annoyed as much by her personality. Seeing as her parents have perpetually put her in place saying how useless she was since she was a child, her confidence would definitely take a hit.
I believe you can only validate yourself when you are satisfied in what you can do and are doing what you want to do. Her goal is to be a good bride but there are no situations that can shape her up to be such. Everyone's just trying to save her and keeps her in the dark most of the time.
How a good storytelling goes, if she doesn't know something, a situation will come up to show her a lesson in how to tackle it before they present her with a bigger but similar problem. However, it's always, 'a big powerful person' takes care of it for her and she doesn't have to worry about anything, story. No wonder the girl feels useless. Nobody wants her to do anything.
Then, we have this dragon arc and I thought she's finally be able to do something especially when she's leading up to becoming something. (Shrine maiden bloodline, the cats, and the dragon asking for her to help)
But then, what do you mean the ones who broke the chains were the cats? Why can't she do something? Like accidentally unlocking shrine maiden powers or something and dissolving the locks?
Like every goddamn time that she says she wants to do something, a person comes in and do something about the situation instead. What about her agency?????? She's changing for sure, but she hasn't had a lot to act on her "want" to do something. IT'S SO ANNOYING!! ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
Even her genes is a dom.
Three guys and none of their genes fought at all. Slay(๑•ㅂ•)و✧
This feels more like those soap opera dramas i watch in TV as a kid. Misunderstandings galore. It even has the trope of 'take this money and leave my son.'
For the first few chapters, I could get behind the misunderstandings especially for the uke's part since the seme keeps giving mixed signals. For the seme's part, I mean with parents like that no wonder he's as dumb as a brick when it comes to his emotions.
Still, with how low my expectations are for omegaverse contract partners drama like this, I'm just glad there was no neglect or physical abuse or rape while they were together. The sexual part well.. is debatable but the uke did consent (it's just that the uke says no a lot when they're at it and the seme doesn't listen when he says no or wait, [artist needs to stop that if they want to portray loving sex or else the seme would be an asshole instead of the uke being shy or something.] and the age gap... is a bit but at the very least, they weren't together when they were young and met up only years after?[artist could've fixed this by making the age gap a bit smaller because 14 and 19 with their first kiss is horrendous or they could've cut out the kiss scene all together.]).
But anw, the seme isn't an irredeemable piece like the other dominant alpha shits. Actually, you could definitely see how the seme likes the uke but just couldn't process it with how backwards his parents teachings were. It was funny in a way.
However, yeah this isn't some amazing plotline. If you've been eating good BL, this would taste bland as hell but if you've eaten worst shit.. This one would be palatable and you could even get behind it. It's just a matter of what you've read before it to compare 'cause seriously, it ain't as bad imo.
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The seawater getting inside? That's either gonna hurt or be itchy. Idk. Imagine the sand particles in the water too. ಥ‿ಥ
Istg I remember being hooked on this when it first came out and the translation was kind of confusing. But rereading this again now, was my mind inhaling copium gas? Maybe everyone just remembered the art since it looks so good and our mind just omitted how lousy the plot was. Because srsly, i remember I really liked this before. Now, i feel like my hair's going to fall out from how dumb the characters are.