correct me if i’m wrong but isn’t grooming if the an adult intentionally exploits and manipulates your child into a relationship aka them being like “you’re mature for your age” and etc. but hearth doesn’t even remember the blonde hair in their somewhat past life so he most definitely doesn’t see him as his child.
You are out of context here... Heart don't have Romantic feelings for Shane. He love him like a brother/charming it's a agape kind of love FAR FAR FAR AWAY of grooming (not only exist the sexual love) And for athoter SIDE of this coin You have Seoha. Seoha don't have ANY memories, nothings is another person totally new he only hace the trauma with touching others. Don't understand me here I'm not romantizing grooming NEVER do it. The groomers only have two options in this life to make a BETTER world simple and fast bullet and to the river. But in this story is more complex cause it's show the reencarnation problems when You have a new being and other that is cling to old one You that not longer exist. How we can live in this life with the burdens of the old one yours but not yours anymore.
Older comment ik ik. Firstly, I don’t think it’s grooming. If a kid develops a crush on an adult, that does not mean the adult groomed them. It just means the kid has a crush on them. Like, if a first grader said they wanted to marry their teacher, your first thought isn’t gonna be that the teacher groomed them but that the kid’s got a crush.
That being said, I also think there’s another element here. For instance, in Makai Ouji, Dantalian had feelings for Solomon—his master, iirc—and therefore stuck around William. I haven’t read the whole thing but what’s important to remember is that William is not actually Solomon, no matter how much Dantalion says he is. A descendent, a reincarnation, whatever—William does not know Dantalion and does not have the same relationship with him. That’s why I wouldn’t even call it a master-servant relationship. Because William isn’t Dantalion’s master. Solomon was.
Ughh I dislike stories that have a weird relationship between a parent like figure and a child like figure who end up having a romantic relationship. Like was Hearth a groomer? O.o i know with Seoha it’s different but still, Shane was a child and grew up with Hearth, it feels weird that he has romantic feelings for him