I do like how the author got two different traumas and shows 2 different types of reaction on 4 characters.
While Shahid and Kinard lost all they treasured, from people to their own country, Alvin and Yesing got rooted out of their childhood security to strangers, they dealt with it on two ways.
While Kinard, instead of stopping on the mental state Alvin is, loosing everyone he loved, instead of fearing and backing away, he choose to love him, the way he is, no why's, when's ifs, he just decided to wholeheartedly love every single part of Alvin, watching him recover I'm great joy.
Alvin, who was conditioned to trust only Isaac's words, choose to trust Kinard above the man who he blindly believed for 10 years, loving and growing under the fact Kinard loves him, wants him to be himself, to grow and heal, they both choose to trust each other, not to question their feelings or fear loosing that love again.
While Shihad is frustrating to watch, you can clearly see a man with too many scars, while he says some really deep things, to then show he knows he loved Yesing not understanding that it's love for he doesn't know what love actually is, his heart compass being his penis is funny at the first glance, but actually sad for that how he measure his love with, his dick, his lust, wanting Yesing but unconsciously stay on a push-pull situation where he reaches out to take a step back, every time, from lover behavior to a parental treatment, not wanting to hurt him or himself.
Yesing on other hand has his loyalty to Kinrard on high value, he keeps wanting Shahid to stop treating him like a child, him being a child abandoned to a stranger hands, ends up pulling Shahid close to push him away when he gets an inch too close, his constant "I'm not a child" exactly when Shahid is not treating him like one a constant poke on Shahid subconscious on another push-pull mental defense mechanism, where they both love but are too afraid to reach out or take when the other reaches for them.
Kinrad and Alvin choose constantly to trust each other, while Shahid and Yesing are stuck on the roundabout trauma, not trusting themselves and the other.
It's brilliant, heartwarming and frustrating, sad and sweet, I'm not, by all mean saying it's flawless, it's frustrating and annoying to read the second couple for their blindness because from outside the trauma is very obvious, when their fear and uncertainty of what love is makes it hard to trust they love, imagine being loved.
Good analysis I think
Thank you (:
Couple 1: Unconditional Love
Couple 2: Unconditional Misunderstandings
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Devon is drawn so beautifully I'd lick her shoes anytime if she desired.
Joking (or not) aside, Devon being a beautiful, powerful character and not being the annoying side character or the full-blown villan is so refreshing.
OMG IT'S AN UPDATE! IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE RIGHT HERE PEOPLE~! ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
I love the tall, brown hair catcher I hope he gets to be a side couple character!
Me too & three :)
Am I the only one who can't picture Mister Sharpe with a woman at all and thinks he's gay too? (￣∇￣")
People going on and on about age gap and I'm just wondering if everyone asks for an ID check before falling in love to check people's age so they can love them. Or if you're 16 and you date someone who's 17, so it's ok at that time, but one year later when the ages are 17 and 18 and now it's wrong. It just reminds me of this girl I've met in my first year of college. She was 18 dating a guy who was 45 years older than her, and they never cared about what other people said about it, because they made each other happy. Kazuki is young, but old enough to know what sex is and old enough to know what he enjoys or not.
And then keep going on and on about teacher x student relationship, and I laugh even harder. It's not a position or occupation that defines someone's character. It's the person's character that makes them abuse or take advantage of it. Like Kazuki himself used his protected position as student to prank Miwa. Two of these pranks clearly sexual. But no one blinked an eye about that.
And last people go on about how Kazuki is inexperienced. EVERYONE is inexperienced before they get experience things. Virginity doesn't mean taking pleasure in anyone and everyone's touch. And having an experience partner who knows what he/she's doing is not bad at all. Or they forget that it was Kazuki who started to grope Miwa in the library. He seduces Miwa quite a few times, he only doesn't have any kinks so it doesn't stand out too much.
I'm not sure if people are too old fashioned or go with those silly morals without thinking much about it, but I can't honestly understand the problem they have with this stuff. I'm not saying it's a perfect, flawless comic. It's not. I'm saying that after reading something like this, you can use the opportunity to not only enjoy a good read, but to actually question some things we all just accept, but it's not as black and white as it seems.
so it's not the age gap, but the idea of purity of a priest an said alter boys (I haven't attendend to a christian church in a very, very long time but aren't alter boys usually all bellow age of 12?). Everyone have different life experiences. Or that having different experiences is a bad thing. Miwa surely is more experienced, but he never looks down on Kazuki's life or problems. He never looks down on him or his feelings just because he's younger or because he've lived the highschool life, truth is he never once said "I've been throu that so I can say corny things superiorly". Not at once. Thou Kazuki have some problems on relying on Miwa sometimes because he thinks he's still a kid, he doesn't want Miwa to solve all his problems just because he's older and understands that Miwa is not a solution for everything like when we rely on our parents sometimes, but he can rely on him to go throu stuff. That's what I like the most here. They have an age difference, and instead of blaming everything on that, they naturally accept it, and deal with the differences, Miwa never looking down on Kakuzi and Kazuki taking his own steps and decisions, relying on Miwa for every little thing, he takes the lead instead of leaving it to Miwa to call all the shots (like when he wanted to make their relationship clear, the library flirt) (one of the things wished for was for a initially gay kazuki who'd try all the kinky gay stuff he saw in porn with Miwa, but that's my personal desire)
I swear to God that "age gap" thing is so stupid. People act like if you love /have sex with someone a little or even marginally older than you you're going to die of something. Miwa is literally just another man *eye roll* and Kazuki is not at the point where they're taking advantage of him (like what could happen with someone much younger than him). People just blindly follow that 'unspoken rule' because it exists and don't even sit and think "I wonder how (insert name) could actually be negatively affected in this case".
Unless there is obvious sign of a toxic relationship (which happens no matter the age) then wtf is the issue? Miwa treats that boy like a fcking princess (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Ahjuicy kicking the door open to INSIDE the store is so darn funny.