for real just say mc or ml
For my case, because I'm sh*t at remembering name
Honestly can't remember their names..
from a person who always does this, i genuinely can not remember character names unless they’re from popular manhwas/mangas, are things im HEAVILY invested in, or are english names.
I read way too many and it’s easier to remember since most top/bottoms have similar personalities. It’s no different than saying seme/uke y’know?
Shit at remembering almost everything category. Here to waste away after all.
Okay, I understand that you are not really good at remembering things but why "top/bottom" or "seme/uke"? Can't it be mc and ml? You don't see people calling the male lead of a hetero manhwa the "active" or the female lead the "passive". Why do we do that with LGBTQ content?
By they way, I'm not judging anyone. I'm just curious why most people do this.
I’ve never really thought about it but I would assume it’s cause MC and ML are pretty close abbreviations and could be easily mixed up unlike FL/ML. Also with most queer stories I read/ remember it goes between the two leads as the MC whether they are top or bottom pretty evenly. While the few hereto stories I’ve read the mc is mostly always the FL. So it helps classify, maybe? At least that’s how I think of it ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
Well for me, I read soooooo many stories and novels that it’s genuinely hard for me to remember names. Sometimes stories, such as 2HA, don’t have an ML or MC so saying top and bottom is easier, for me especially when it comes with stories I binged in a day. Also, for hetero stories, it’s easy to differentiate between “the girl” and “the guy.” I don’t read many GLs, but normally I think those are differentiated by hair color or whatever.
For me, I call them mc/ml and it's also because I'm sht at remembering names. Pretty much goes to any genre of manhwa I read be it hetero/BL/action. I tend to remember the really popular mainstream ones though like Kim Dan and Jaekyung (I don't read Jinx but I always see it being discussed in comments and tiktok)
hope this isn’t offensive but all them names sound the same
it's not that deep. with straight content you said man/woman and it's clear who is who. if I say "this guy is annoying me" you wouldn't know who I'm speaking about. I do tend to use mc/ml but I understand why someone would just use top/bottom it's not deep at all
Is it because you guys read too much that you always call the characters as "top" or "bottom" or is it because you are sh*t at remembering names? I find it disturbing but I'm also curious.