I think an older person actively rejecting the younger person trying to get with them is the exact opposite of grooming. He’s literally being a responsible adult.
And I think what’s the challenge here is for Hyo Un to make a case to Taehyuk that he’s not a child because he’s not even human — he’s a dragon and he doesn’t want to be treated like a human child. The question is will the story be able to convincingly pull off changing the way Taehyuk sees Hyo Un?
The comments section is going through extremes in opinions right now on if this is grooming or if it doesn’t matter since it’s just fiction. For me, even if it’s just fiction, a good romance story should be able to convince me that a relationship can still happen despite the odds. I can read taboo smut just fine but if the story is actually trying to have plot and character development, and it introduces complications like “one character has essentially raised the other character who has now declared love for them”, I need to be able to be won over by the storytelling on how this will be resolved in a way that isn’t out of character for anybody.
So yeah, I don’t think this manhwa has grooming, but I also think this manhwa has set up a situation where the uke fucking the seme as they are now would be bad character development, unless it’ll be able to somehow do a miracle shot of writing it believably.
I think an older person actively rejecting the younger person trying to get with them is the exact opposite of grooming. He’s literally being a responsible adult.
And I think what’s the challenge here is for Hyo Un to make a case to Taehyuk that he’s not a child because he’s not even human — he’s a dragon and he doesn’t want to be treated like a human child. The question is will the story be able to convincingly pull off changing the way Taehyuk sees Hyo Un?
The comments section is going through extremes in opinions right now on if this is grooming or if it doesn’t matter since it’s just fiction. For me, even if it’s just fiction, a good romance story should be able to convince me that a relationship can still happen despite the odds. I can read taboo smut just fine but if the story is actually trying to have plot and character development, and it introduces complications like “one character has essentially raised the other character who has now declared love for them”, I need to be able to be won over by the storytelling on how this will be resolved in a way that isn’t out of character for anybody.
So yeah, I don’t think this manhwa has grooming, but I also think this manhwa has set up a situation where the uke fucking the seme as they are now would be bad character development, unless it’ll be able to somehow do a miracle shot of writing it believably.