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Why did the author make him even a romance-able character ?? Even gave him a sad backstory just to make him some psycho who wants to kill her makes no sense
So you think every guy with a sad back story is a good guy?
Yeah adding on to the fact she literally purchased him as a slave when he was underaged and groomed him LOL
I think it's to further enhance how Penelope's limited and skewed perspective at the start of the story led to erroneous judgment calls, as well as she hadn't really pivoted to thinking of the people as people and not just characters. Her logic at the time of choosing Eclis made sense from a purely player perspective. It just got twisted along the way as he turned out to be a very real and very traumatized person who already lost absolutely everything, put all his eggs in one basket (her), and then felt like he had it ripped out from under him again. Eclis is definitely a psycho, but it was Penelope's own actions that contributed to sending him down that spiral by finding him at his lowest, picking him back up, and continuously manipulating him. He wasn't a psycho in the game, after all, or at least that we saw. He's the foil to the prince, who she initially saw as a total psycho but warmed up to as she realized he was more reasonable and human than she'd initially believed.
Penelope is in a game simulator where she believed that in order to escape the game, she needs to romance someone to 100%– she chose Eckles to be that person. what she didnt realize is that reaching 100% didn't get her out of the game, but Eckles is too far gone to turn back. The point the author is trying to make is that 99% love (where Eckles is at rn) is not love, it's obsession and it can drive someone mad. If I remember correctly, the prince is somewhere around the early 80s–so his love for penelope hasn't reached obsession levels. If penelope hadn't romanced Eckles the way she did, perhaps he'd be a normal guy like the prince.
I don't think that's the point. The colors of their affection meter indicate the type of love they have. Eckles has always had obsessive type of love and Kalisto always had passion type of love. It's just that Penelope realised it late.
Now that I think, I guess it was doomed from the start. Had the meaning of the colors been revealed from the beginning maybe it wouldn't have come to this mess we have now. The game was pretty nasty to hide things from Penelope. She eventually uncovered why the characters behave the way they do, why she was in the game, etc but it's already pretty late and she has already suffered from much.
Mfw
Person: I don’t like pancakes
ZenRyu: SO YOU DONT LIKE WAFFLES
Person: Plot twist, I don't like pancakes and waffles
TaigaB: That makes no sense.
I'm not sure if the manhwa is intending readers to derive another meaning (the colors), but i also read the novel and the author almost explicitly stated the reasoning I provided–trust me, I wouldn't be smart enough to come up with that reasoning on my own
I see..
I don’t know why I don’t remember the title the main character is a mad scientist who makes money by making sex toys for the rich, his lover died and he brought him back Frankenstein manner by combining his old lovers body parts to other dead people. The person who got his lovers head was handsome but cold, person who got the penis was super sexual, and person who got the heart was super kind. He wanted to make his lover all the same person but at the end of the story he decided to just date all of them
You’re a legend, thank you
A story with a female dom and a male sub, think like Confidentiality or In the Doghouse but I’m looking for the guy to be more slim rather than buff ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ any good recommendations? It doesn’t necessarily need hardcore BDSM either just a guy who listens well and/or happy to do things for the woman is also fine.
Preferably shy type but not required.
This is cool, thank you!
Shibatte mitsumete: it’s a cute read and I enjoyed it, but important to note that if you are doing things like breath play or you are gagged your safeword should be done with actions like tapping or dropping something. You should definitely not be going to a BSDM bar with your coworkers or have it as a work meeting. Remember consent should follow the FRIES rule - if you are not informed like Sawada is you really should not be doing BDSM, especially dangerous ones. He nearly ruined his nerves forever and breathplay can damage parts of your airways or even your brain without airflow.
That being said I’ve read lots of works where there’s rape and 0 braincells working with anyone so it didn’t bother me. Plus Nana is beautiful!
ML needed way more progress about learning to not be so pushy and communicating about his insecurities, MC needed way more progress about learning to identify his feelings and communicating them clearly, and childhood friend lowkey not even savable after threatening to rape his best friend but if we completely took that out of the story he still needed way more progress about literally everything. Idk why the author made someone assault him at his own bday party either it was so messed up… Things needed to be more fleshed out so we could at least try understand where each of the characters were coming from and also see them learn from their mistakes, but it was so rushed all of the characters just felt like headless chickens running around. Like why did the MC just believe the ML when he said he doesn’t think about his dead ex anymore? Why and when did the ML start liking MC for who he is? How and why did the previous issues get resolved? Why did the best friend suddenly get over him? So many unanswered questions made the writing so frustrating