no it's not you fuckin dumbass. seriously go look up the meaning of the word before you say the stupidest shit. it's exactly because of dumb people like you CONSTANTLY misusing the word that they lose any meaning to them and people don't take actual survivors seriously. just go outside and touch some grass, come back inside and look up the definition of "grooming". grooming isn't whatever the fuck YOU PERSONALLY feel is grooming, it has a definition and "meeting someone as kids, trying to date them as an adult" (which the brown hair guy didn't do either) is *not* grooming.
grooming is defined by Oxfor Dictionary as:
"the practice of preparing or training someone for a particular purpose or activity." and
"the action of attempting to form a relationship with a child or young person, with the intention of sexually assaulting them or inducing them to commit an illegal act such as selling drugs or joining a terrorist organization."
i'm not usually one to argue semantics when it comes to things like pedophilia, but you guys are genuinely so fucking stupid it's mind boggling. where did the brown hair guy GROOM mc for the purpose of fucking/raping him? please show me the chapter where ANYTHING inappropriate happened between tnem, especially when the mc was underage. you stupid fuckers will yap and say anything. go the fuck back to twitter or tiktok or whatever other fucking sanitized place of fantasy land you come from and leave normal people like us the fuck alone.
so you're telling me that if you went out and met a kid, and watched them grow up in front of you, and then decided to date them after they became a legal adult, that there's genuinely nothing wrong with that? do you seriously fucking think that's normal or okay to do? do your morals not fucking exist? get a GRIP dude
don't even try to change the subject. whether it's "morally wrong" or not was not what you or the original comment were referring to. you two called it "grooming" which by definition DID NOT HAPPEN. it was not grooming. period. you two misconstrued the meaning of grooming and tried to claim mc was groomed by the other dude when it wasn't true. whether i think it's normal or morally right doesn't fucking matter because that's not what this comment was talking about. don't try to word your comment differently now to prove your stupid fucking point. don't use "grooming" when it wasn't grooming.
mc is an adult now, and so is the other dude. if they decide to do anything at this point it's consensual. the other dude never (as far as has been shown) behaved inappropriately towards mc when he was young. he never showed interest in the mc when he was young. so how is it grooming? is your brain actually melting inside your skull?
"wahh wahh wahhh i took one class in uni so that makes me qualified to correctly determine when fictional manhwa characters are being groomed." there's no thing as a "groomer vibe" dumbass. either you were groomed or you weren't. which the mc here wasn't. maybe if you actually focused on your classes in uni instead of yapping all the time you would've noticed.
the hyung as sml is a no for me, grooming at its finest