Me too, It's frustrating seeing that the MC has the abilities, looks, knowledge to be badass but she's too dependent on ml. Like girly already knows how to stop her cycles. but still depends too much on the ml. I mean the ml is hot but I dont like the idea of women depending too much on men, when they can clearly stand on their own ya know??
YES. To be truely, I just start reading it because it was in the femdom topic, but it has literally nothing about femdom, she is clearly a sub and he is clearly a Dom, and even if she wasn't, she depends so much on him, like you said, she have everything to try it alone and be a fucking badass, but she prefer to do everything a random man says.
Think about it this way, not all female leads act the same, no? Some can be very headstrong and are all brains using knowledge and whatnot. Some can be unknowingly submissive. The thing is with this female lead is that she wants to be confident to take control of how to be an antagonist. Killian is there for the reason he teaches her how to be one. She wants to act like a villainess but can't or doesn't know how to act like it, and the only way for time to continue is if she follows the flow of the entire novel. Like the title itself really 'Villainess Maker' I think it's talking about Killian turning Ayla into the novel's villainess. Remember, before she even became the duke's daughter she was nothing more than just an office worker, who got pushed around. How can she act like the original novel's villainous Ayla, when all her life back in the modern world was that she was just a pushover?
I mean it really all comes down to the taste of the readers, and I suppose you are right since the title is telling what the story is, which is Villainess maker. I think it's just that I didn't like the fact that it was considered as femdom when it's really just borderline puppeteer(not in a bad way) of Killian to the MC, I mean it can be considered femdom but not by a longshot since she's not the one doing it, It's not that we hate the characters but the domination of what we expected, since we thought the MC is a badass independent not controlled by anyone. I mean im not saying she's not badass but it's not like the bad badass like the other manhwas. It's a really great story but I just want to see in the future that she's the one thinking of what everything she will do, regardless it's a great story.
Actually, this can't be considered femdom, don't have smut and femdom can exist without it, in here, we don't have femdom, is not the mc who is in control, is the ml, every single time. And I don't think she is a badass, like we say, she can't do things without ml, she know the way to change the loop, but depend so much of the ml, like she can't and don't know what to do, like in the beginning, when she repeated everything he said to her, she can't even say no to others.
I really tried to read it, but the mc can't do anything without the ml, is frustrating, she do everything he says, she doesn't do anything that SHE want to do. I am so tired of manhwa and manga with the mc depending of the ml.