okay it's all falling apart

not that I'm complaining cause the storyline is still really intriguing and I'll def keep reading but the maturity discrepancy and the attraction to (a father figure??) is just a tad uncomfortable.

Hyo un never saw him as a father figure though...remember the only reason he looked like a child was because the first human he saw was a child. Who knows his actual age. Also we can't use human metrics here ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Human age doesn't matter. He is developmentally a "newborn" in dragon age. Imagine u adopt a puppy. At 8-9 months, it starts humping your leg. Now, that dog is adult in dog terms, but it still doesn't make it okay. Same thing here, Hyoun make look like an adult human, but he/it is a "newborn" dragon according to other spirits, and Taehyuk has raised it since it was a youngling. It doesn't matter how Hyoun sees him, Taehyuk never saw him as a lover-material. More like a son or a pet he was responsible for.

you can't use an animal as a parallel to explain the story plot here, hyo un isn't an animal he is a supernatural being

Point being, he isnt purely a human child. So u cant say he is an adult man coz he ISNT. He is a BABY DRAGON who transformed itself to look like a human child.

are you saying that humans and dragon age at the same rate?

it doesn't really matter how hyo-un saw him. What matters is the fact that taehyuk saw him as a child he was raising and taking care of. Taehyuk himself has never harbored any other feeling other than a variant of familial love and care for hyo-un. So even if hyo-un himself isn't looking at taehyuk that way, it's undeniable that taehyuk raised him in a sense. It's also true that their maturity levels (despite supernatural age or whatever) are inherently very different. That's all my argument is. Though to be fair, at the end of the day, this is story is purely fiction. I'm just looking at it through another way since I have mixed feelings lol