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Not bothering with the comment section anymore. Here to appreciate the hard work of YP and Ondo. They really did a good job. Was disappointed by them in the beginning but they are doing good now. I hope they will be true to the novel in the future as well.
So I came across a post where Zig herself clarified the incest thing that some ppl have been accusing Grayson for. Well it's actually not that difficult to interpret the situation when you have understood Grayson's character but Zig didnt knw that we have readers with low IQ. So was unaware that such misunderstanding has been going around and personally explained the situation. I am copying the exact comment she made here:
-Hello. Since it’s a story I couldn’t even imagine, I took a moment to wonder where such a misunderstanding could have come from. To get straight to the point, there was no incest on Miller Street, and there won’t be any in the future either. To Grayson, Chase is just a “clueless little brother,” a “being that needs looking after.”
-When Chase asked if he would mate with him when Rut came, since there was no one else to release pheromones to but Bliss, and Grayson said, "If there's no other way, then that's what has to be done," that might have LED to such a MISUNDERSTANDING. However, in this context, Grayson’s intention is that he must remove the pheromones in advance to prevent such a situation from happening.
-Excluding Chase, all the other siblings were -- strictly managing their pheromones, so in fact, there was virtually no risk of that happening. If the kids hadn't done it properly, Ashley wouldn't have just sat idly by, right? I hope the misunderstanding gets cleared up.
I have been telling people just by reading the novels that it was Chase whose pheromones were harmful for Bliss and not others and that is wht Grayson was concerned abt.
For Grayson consent is very very very important, he would never do such a thing to anyone.
I saw this post on X just today
thanks for putting author's post. gonna bookmark this one
hm idk if it was lost in translation, but i didn't get the emphasis on "that's what we're trying to avoid". it felt more like "yeah thats an acceptable way to handle that situation". even this "clarification" just specifies that this would be a worst case scenario, but still an acceptable solution, which is enough to gross me out, personally. chase's reaction in that scene matched my own disgust, and most of the comments also read that conversation as incestuous. are we all low IQ? i think it's more likely that either that scene was translated with tiny inaccuracies or just written kinda poorly, if this is what the author wanted us to take away instead.
the manhwa is supposed to be a standalone work. if you need to read the novels to understand the scene in this way, i think that's a failure of the adaptation process.
First of all, Grayson have communication issues and choices of words due to his condition. That's why I said, if you will understand his character truly and the situations, u will automatically know what he exactly meant there. This clarification was never needed for someone who know abt all the 6 stories. They already figured it out by knowing Grayson from his story and the omega brother story (which is ongoing). Zig had to clarify it as a certain fandom was accusing his character.
He never meant that this is an acceptable solution, this is something he has been grown up listening to and there is a lot more to it.
And for this universe, one novel will never be enough to understand everything and every character. There has been always some new revelation in every other stories. The whole saga is built-up im such a way that the reader's understanding and pov will keep changing with each story. zig is a novelist and she has designed it in that way that knowledge of all 6 novels is imp. She is not responsible for the Manhwas.
More or less, both kmyic novel and manhwa has showed this scene in that way, maybe author wanted this misunderstanding. Grayson has mostly shown as an evil character in the two previous works but there is in my view a reason for that. And KMYIC does have false informations, half informations, unexplained things, and a very narrow narrative as this story is just from Chase and Josh pov who have little to no knowledge of the family history, how dangerous dom alpha pheromones are and the rest of many things. Kmyic didn't even clarify a lot abt Chase own health conditions which will get more clear from other novels. So yeah, KMYIC is actually considered to be the most poorly written story among the rest if you see it in a whole pack as the others will give you more clear picture of the things that has happened.
So my advice for manhwa readers will always be that if you aren't ready to dive into the novels it's better to treat every story as an individual story without connecting it with the previous story.
Holy shitt, I digged it up along with my moots n what I found is that a group of ppl, who thinks that their fav char is the only 2 saint characters of this series and the rest are trash, started spreading false information regarding Grayson that he is a disgusting char who wants to sleep with his brothers and his main motive is to sleep with Chase (RIP IQ). So some novel readers requested Zig to clarify this as it is now getting way ugly. That's when Zig came up with this clarification. Tbh this clarification was actually not needed if someone read this story with brain, not to hate on Grayson but to understand him
The main problem is that especially manhwa readers have problems understanding the setting, how this universe works. It is in parts a problem of the adaption ( they left out a lot), but also problem of the readers. This is omgaverse, instinct overrides reasons etc. That at least is something everyone should know, if they read omegaverse.
If Grayson says stuff as he did, there is a logic behind it. The doctor also talks about that regualry. There is the possibilty that disgusting stuff like that can happen, and to avoid that you release your pheromones regulary.
Grayson is the one who releases his pheromones regulary, Chase is the one who doesn't. Grayson is the one who wants to make Chase release pheromones. Even without context from the novel or other stories that should be logical. Chase has memory lapses, uses medicines etc. So the not releasing pheromones affects him in a negative way. He doesn't even know if he raped the person he slept with years ago (Josh).
One of the biggest problems of the adaption is, that many seem to think that Chase's childhood, his parents and Grayson are soley responsible for his bad character traits etc. while actually the manifestation as a dominant alpha also plays a big role. And they don't really understand how serious Chase not releasing pheromones really is. Grayson told Josh that they make Chase go to the parties, where he passes out and they take out his pheromones by injection. Now think, Chase is an adult, why can't he organize something with the doctor himself?
I don't think that it has anything to do with IQ, more with readers lacking informations, getting too invested, jumping to conclusion and don't like if anyone tries to disturb their perfect picture of the story. They see it as black and white, but especially omegaverse like this is mainly a gray area. It's no problem is you keep it to yourself, but if you start to spread false informations, try to make people hate a character so they won't buy the story, that is problematic. That work, those characters, still belongs to the original author.
If we consider bad translations and reading comprehension ( novel), one thing I really did find interesting: About 90% or more of the spoilers concerning the dog thing in the KMIYC comment section ( and there were a lot of them), were either completely wrong or it wasn't understood correctly. So they were either repeating wrong spoilers, read a bad translation.....or the reading comprehension failed them.
KMIYC isn't a standalone, it never was written as one. The manhwa as of now never was either, since there is Kiss me liar, different series, but same universe and overlapping events. Josh appears there, Grayson etc.