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
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..
Honestly idk why people are mad about Youngjo moving to Germany, his old company was SHIET. He himself was a SHIET boss, and any company that’s allowing their superiors to yell, scream, slap, and throw things at their employees is not a place anyone should be. Someone literally has a permanent scar on his face because Youngjo used him as an ASHTRAY. Him being forced into team 3 because they couldn’t get rid of him but didn’t want to promote him was so fucking toxic, and they only changed their tune when he started making more money than team 1/team 2. Even the fact one of the women only landed in team 3 due to being in a work relationship while Youngjo’s old boss got a promotion instead reeks of misogyny.
Thank fuck Hyunwoo made him realize he’s deadass abusing his employees and constructive criticism gets better results. I found it so ironic Youngjo was praising Hyunwoo for wanting to empathize with people when he can’t because tons of people choose not to when they can, when he was literally someone who chose not to empathize with people and even pouring coffee on their heads.
- Rant about the workplace toxicity over -
I really dislike how ASPD is characterized in a lot of media, because it is a nuanced topic. I felt it was quite refreshing the author chose to make Hyunwoo someone who wanted to understand others even though he struggled to. I think it also opened a dynamic I think most relationships should have as well, where instead of always just reading their partners face or gestures, it’s healthy to be able to say it out loud and make it clear whether something is liked or disliked.
I also just like BDSM dynamics in stories, and this one didn’t have rape/dubious consent which is so rare to find in a lot of BDSM manhwas. I like how safe words/gestures were used annd respected, and each of the characters had moments where they revoked their consent and they explained why before continuing.
Both of them amplified each others freaks, like normally I would think the jealousy playing into their bedroom is super toxic but Youngjo was super into it and as long as Hyunwoo didn’t cross any boundaries it’s a fine trait to have.
If anyone is curious there’s bondage, wax play, golden shower, neglect play, puppy play, exhibitionism, sounding, spanking, and enema.
Does he think kim dan will stay with him if he loses? I’m so confused. Why can’t he win and also stay with kim dan (given that they make up and understand each other and admit their feelings)
i mean, wasn't the condition that kim dan stays with until he wins the championship and then he's free to leave, and that's why jjk is lamenting over this?
he's giving dan autonomy and choice, and he's decided (assumed) that he'd leave him for good once everything is over
If he loses the championship the championship is still over though. So kim dan will still leave by that logic…
as the coach said in the chapter if he loses he retires, and with how jjk is now, honestly he'd probably still let him go
Ts so stupid the kid wants what the kid wants but why are the adults acting like kids don’t have stupid wants?? If a kid wants to feed their parents chocolate when they are allergic are they going to convince them to eat it too?
Like if you don’t like angst just stop reading it. You can just reread the previous seasons over no one is forcing you to enjoy smth u don’t like
Instead we get some depressed looking main characters