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noooo i was hoping it’d be a gl
thank you for the spoilers!! Your explanation made me less wary of the blue haired guy being the ML ヾ(☆▽☆)
Thank you so much (づ￣ ³￣)づ
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The ML is the blue haired guy (Sabel). Don't feel bad if you don't like him much now! He goes through A LOT of character development, largely because our MC straight up cuts off her friendship with him because his scheming, yandere behavior is unacceptable.
The ML is actually under a curse and because of it he's been rejected and hated by his parents and people who see it (when the curse is active his body and face are covered in ugly black splotches). In addition because of the curse, he's also dying. So his personality being a little twisted is understandable. But what I love about this story is that it doesn't just give the ML a tragic backstory and expect the reader/MC to suddenly accept him being an asshole. His backstory explains his motivation and the reason he is the way he is, but he still has to change and evolve and work to become a better person before the MC accepts him. The MC makes it clear that while she is sympathetic and is willing to be patient with him as he works to improve, he DOES have to improve and there are lines he can't cross (like stalking her; something he does after he first falls for her and which is one of the reasons why she cuts ties with him).
Marilyn and Lara (and the other girls they befriend) also influences his change a lot. He doesn't believe in the bonds between people and believe that people will easily abandon others. He initially thinks that Marilyn is too concerned with her friends and they don't deserve it/will leave her when things get tough. However Lara's deep affection for Marilyn and the way her friends always show up to help her make the ML realize that Marilyn gets exactly as much love as she gives and it changes his beliefs about friendships and connection.
As for Lycan, he does fall for Marilyn, but she doesn't reciprocate. Even though she doesn't dislike him, she still can't let go of the way he treated Marilyn as worthless and disposable in the beginning/original story. Lycan admits that originally he thought that Marilyn's only use was as someone who should suffer in his sister's place and that he'll always carry the guilt for not treating her like a real person from the start.