THANK YOU!
Could've easily not had him raise the dude. Maybe they grew up together as kids like those cases where a child serves another child but they become friends. Still iffy cause of power dynamic but way better than accidental grooming.
in fact, why have the dragon be a kid at all? very strange decision all around
Foreal!!!!! Maybe have him be new to human culture entirely. The kid thing is always such a wierd path
Well said!! Love your take on media criticism too! (≧∀≦)
Have the same energy as dudes who say 'shes not a child she's a 3000 year old dragon' meanwhile said character acts like a child.
I always find narratives like these very iffy. They skirt past grooming accusations by ensuring the younger person is the initiator and desirous of a relationship and showing that the older does everything in their power to deny that relationship until they're pushed to a point, relent and grow to be romantically involved with someone they've raised since that person was a child/in childlike state (usagi drop blueprint). I don't think the author is a pedo for doing this, but this trope definitely eeks me out.
As for the weird comments saying 'imagine complaining on an illegal site' I think media criticism should flourish in all spaces because it helps create conversations about narratives that endure in the wider culture of storytelling, regardless of where the conversation takes place. By their logic itself, criticising a media work on this website has no tangible effect on the author themselves, and instead remains purely amongst audience, with whom I believe these conversations should be had in the first place. I hope fans like myself who find this backstory repugnant will not engage directly with the author on a personal level. They are free to do as they wish with their narrative, and readers are free to criticise them without causing them actual harm or mental agony.
I am a fan of the present day dynamics of the couple in this manhwa, so will continue to read it. However, looking at the raws definitely makes me feel freaked with why the author chose this specific backstory when they could've written another equally impactful backstory with just as pervasive but more positive tropes.
But who cares right, after all, we're on an illegal site anyway. ¯_(ツ)_/¯