ALSO: I really want to see more of the girlfriend. She is a very interesting character. and I am really grateful that she isn’t just jealousy-bait. I hope this doesn’t change, as I can see her and the MC getting close and the ML becoming possessive and causing more misunderstandings.
I hope that she and the MC become close friends. They both need a break from the ML, who needs to see that his actions are not helping the situation. He needs to see MC in a happy state of life and think “yeah maybe it isn’t about me, but i’m glad he’s happy.” (probably won’t happen, but a girl can hope).
I think girlfriend deserves to be more than ‘the character ML got with instead of MC’ (girlfriend and MC look the same and have close sounding names). She and MC can become good friends and she can teach MC that life is more than who you like. ML needs to get his shit together, so hopefully losing MC to better friends can push him in the right direction.
I am very optimistic, but as many BLs go, this will probably end in the MC just relenting and the ML getting everything he wanted…boo….
damn dud are u like a major in lit or something? So eloquently put review *chef's kiss*
Same I really love story like that too, I know it's not practically healthy but I enjoy it. It's really good to see them all jealous and lovey dovey lmao
my absolute favorite dynamic, like this dude is insane but it’s written well instead of in an off putting way.
There is some nuance. ML is possessive and overbearing, but I believe it’s because he has no idea how to control his feelings. He has been in love with MC for his entire life, and it started before either of them had any idea what love is. Those type of emotions, especially the jealousy and betrayal (something as little as MC not rejecting his first girlfriend for him), during their formative years could have molded his personality before he had any idea of the situation. He doesn’t know that he loves the MC, romantically that is, and I believe his possessiveness comes from his fear of losing the MC again. We see throughout their life that MC has a tendency to push others away when confronted with conflict, and ML has been the one to chase him the whole time.
This however, is still an unhealthy and gross dynamic that I do feel bad for indulging myself in. While I enjoy these characters, I can still see that they are not healthy. I will be very disappointed if this story ends without any character development from the ML. If MC just falls into the “cage” that has been set, it will make all of this pointless. MC needs to find confidence in himself, and ML needs to realize his feelings and abandonment issues. Best case scenario: ML goes to therapy and MC doesn’t allow himself to be a doormat. ML can keep his possessiveness, I don’t feel like that’s going away as it stems from fear of abandonment (he doesn’t have this reaction to anyone else in his life), but hopefully it becomes more productive instead of him being a creepy freak who only wishes to keep the MC locked away from the rest of the world. Character development would take this obsession from a place of ownership, to a wish for MC’s own happiness. I believe that he truly loves MC, but his inability to understand his own emotions leaves ML to mistake his feelings for something far darker.
Overall, very compelling story and characters. I urge everyone reading this to not romanticize such relationships. The draw of these stories is not the relationship itself, but the journey that two characters go through to find happiness for themselves, and for the people they love. <333