that's literally textbook manipulation and gaslighting. that's threatening suicide. that's guilt-tripping.
It is manipulation but it is not gaslighting. I really need people to stop using that word incorrectly. He is not making her doubt her reality or memory. But it is everything else you said, for sure.
He didn't threaten to commit suicide... he's saying he won't be like his mother who only waits. In fact he's saying he'll forget maxi because he didn't want to be like his mother.
That's why maxi says, she will return because he's not been abandoned
ppl hate on maxi for just now learning how to stand up for herself after years and years of abuse but dont bat an eye with this man who's one more duke croyso—basically just a deterrent for her growth, never letting her speak, always so ready to lash out at her, and deciding everything for her. only this time it's her spouse doing it and it's out of "love"
how to say... it's just another, probably tamer, form of abuse lmao making maxi soooooo dependent of him, hating it when she tries to use her wings, and isolating her from ppl helping her. this isnt being protective. it's literally just chaining her to a gilded cage.
NOOOONONO im gonna gush abt this u guys dont get ittttt if he was like any other slop ML, he wouldve been suspicious of Hailey in a negative way and woulda been up in their arms abt possible betrayal
BUT NOOOO he considers everything out of pure concern for her health. he looks out for Hailey without being patronizing. he /wants/ to know abt the real her bc he himself knows that the person Hailey is around him, is seemingly not the same person everybody else knew her as. who could ever go out of their way to consider even long-lost supernatural abilities if not someone who truly loves you for yourself and wants to know whats hurting you !!!! he doesnt even know whats going on but hes trying his damn hardest to protect her ONLY HIMMM AAAAAAAA
Yes hes truly the best male lead ive seen in a long time
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now i get why isekai-ed characters stick around og couples in stories like this. i knew varia and pelliot wouldve gotten together but i needed to know exactly how it will go. it's so fun seeing it happen
totally lost the plot after scrapping the love triangle thing between the 2nd ML, the saintess, and ms. devon (mr?)
it was good and funny and the illustrations at the end of every chapter were cute. then it all went downhill bc they couldnt progress the story between the FL and ML without reducing the whole cast to plot devices. crazy thing is, the only characters that were affected were the rest of the WOMEN.
it almost got the point—when they started talking about the saintess' troubles as a commoner and a woman in an aristocratic society. YET they still used it to make her evil. meanwhile, every male and rich character here never suffered.
duke solton couldve been the ultimate villain if the story really needed one. he was supposedly the mastermind but only appeared for like... three chapters.
the OG plot couldve still happened without making the saintess the villain. it couldve made the "canon" story the whole antagonist bc that was the only death flag for kylo and kt existed without the saintess being the villain in the OG story. but no, apparently, pitting women against women is the only way for the FL to exist in a romance story.
+ ms. devon, who also had a great potential, was turned into a MALE just so we could get a glimpse of reverse harem. for totally no reason :D
they could make the two/three (?) MLs broskis but they couldnt find a way to make the other '2' FLs exist alongside Agnes. we're so never making it out of the patriarchy
the conviction, respect for her space, recall to lucas, and his confession being just what exactly she needed to hear from another person aaaaaa probably one of the best confessions ive ever seen
so like. he could've resolved things w that shit family all this time and could've lived happily ever after w taeri before things could've gotten worse BUT NOOO let's commit unspeakable crimes and be an irredeemable piece of shit til the end for the sake of a "dark romance" "plot"
I think he would not have been with Taeri if he wasn't that POS. From the start Taeri persued him because she needed an antagonist and if he was a kinda healthy guy she would have not cared about him. I'm not putting the full blame on her but she was mentally unwell from the start
by your logic, sure, but she wanted to get away from him so many times after that :D it's okay to admit that he's just a badly written character in a story that more or less lost the olot
Oh sure he is a badly writen character, My point is she is not any better and genuinely didn't actually try to get rid of him. It is very evident in her attachement to him
the monologues are INSANE. feels like im actually learning from a philosopher i feel so cleansed and optimistic everytime i re-read this story
"even if it's just the shell, it's still mine" it's giving bear get the fuck outtttttt
What do you mean by bear?
They are talking about the movie “Obsession” that came out a couple of weeks ago
Ohhhhh I don't have idea of that movie hahahah I'll check it out
god i love everyone's character design. it's fuck fjo's mother but like HELLOOOOO HER DESIGNNN HER CHARACTERIZATION R WE SEEING ITTTT