Agreed! I mean, there are characters I like who are rapists ex. Sangwoo, but the author gave him a realistic ending and didn't romanticise him as a rapist nor downplayed it. Wrote his character to the full potential in my opinion. Like him as a psycho character, despise him as a person. But I literally can smell in this story Jae will get a good ending with Dan and everything is forgotten. The same with painter of the night. This shit is getting ridiculous honestly. Would love a very angsty ending for this one.
I completely agree with you!
I also liked sangwoo and the ending was deserved and felt satisfying.
But yes jae will get a happy ending and everything will be forgiven
I never read painter of the night bcuz i know its toxic fuel and i refuse to read it
Good for you! The Stockholm is strong for that one.
I might seem toxic for this but hear me out.
You dont have to agree with me but i wanna say something.
I genuinely like jae's characteristics;
In fiction i like shitty characters that get their ass handed to them by love, i know its a very problematic thing to like but fiction is just plessure i believe. Yk like when in angst, we watch stuff that makes us sad/angry/confused or wtvs negative feeling bcuz we find it fun for some reason.
I like characters that make me mad bcuz they then seem intresting to me; they give me the feel of excitement to know "how will they end up?"
This said i want to point out; jae might have those 'characteristics' i look in characters when i am reading comics but the thing that ruins him whole is him being a SAter.
I truly believe that if jae didnt have that "trope" (its a crime, but i have no other ideology to use ) I wouldve liked him **AS A CHARCTER.**
I would ofc not like him as a person; he is still an asshole even without the rape part, but i would enjoy him existing in diffrent environments and interacting with other ppl. Cuz i find asshole fun to observe? This sounds wrong.
ANYWAYS; I just wish the author didnt add the rape as a "trope" to have
Or she just can simply recognize her character as a rapist which will add more layers to it as a being and maybe from their she can work him up to getting fucked upa nd distroyed cuz a rapist doenst deserve no happy ending.
That being said; do i like jae? Fuck no, but do i think his character wouldve been intresting if he didnt rape somebody? YES.