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OH PLUS, it was weird how karel didn't even try to learn russian when he couldn't communicate with sasya like....? julian knows russian so it couldn't have been hard for him to learn the language to communicate with the one he supposedly loved, but no. he was okay with not being able to understand sasya, while seeing julian converse fluently with him in russian like,,,
i feel like this has a lot of plot holes,,,and passes because it has good art :( firstly, julian seems way toooo obsessed with his brother's life. like, yeah i get it you care for him, but stop making decisions for him, or trying to help him when he didn't ask you. secondly, i feel like both karel and sasya suffers from their own psychological disorders, and uh idk of help was available in the timeline the plot takes place. their emotions and communications are very much one-sided, both for karel and for sasya. karel loves him in his own obsessive way, and sasya... honestly idk what he truly feels. i do not get his motive for sleeping with the nobleman after running away from home. he tells mr. skar (karel) later that he didn't need money or status, so,,,, why was he sleeping with b the old nobleman who was literally raping him inna way? his depression seems much more severe than it's portrayed here and it makes things more difficult to understand the plot. this way, it's easier to blame sasya for leaving him then seeking him again, but if his depression was talked about in the story, if this issue was dealt with seriously rather than just mention it as a passing reference, then sasya's character would've made more sense. sasya seems to have abandonment issues, and trauma from the past, but it's treated so....idk....languidly... that i was honestly disappointed. both of them, or in that sense, no one in the story, seem to be rounded characters, all of them seem to be very one dimensional. sometimes julian is doing this or that, karel is angry sometimes, sometimes he loves and like they're all very extreme emotions. and like, human emotions are much more complex than that. i believe the author had something complex in mind in terms of expressing their conflicting emotions, but it's portrayed very very loosely. which, makes the story lose its natural flavour. this really had so much potential because it was beginning to talk about some serious issues, but then, it became such a cliche plot, (im not saying i don't like them), but it's a dragging read when the characters don't even know what they're doing.