TOTALLY AGREE! TBH I'm gonna drop this, I hate the way the author approached the back story because now it honestly doesn't look like dragon guy actually likes him romantically, more so he loves him because he was the first person to ever show him kindness, aswell as this weird possessive element to it.
I cringed when the author or the translator tried to justify it by saying they never had sex when he was a child. BARE FUCKING MINIMUM as soon as he even resembled an adult u was right on him. Can you imagine if you wanted to fuck your DAD?? And he said YES??it's a sad excuse for pedophilia or at the very least grooming. Main dude literally mentions "it feels more like i raised him
apos to marriage.. CAUSE IT IS. The author is so aware of it which is why they chose to add the amnesia cause it would be weird asf if he remembered rasing a child to have sex with it..
I also hateeee amnesia arcs they feel like lazy writing and the story could have progress so much without it cuz really and truly it's not adding anything the characters already didn't know eachother from thier past lives for majority of the story!??? So like... I DONT UNDERSTAND. ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
I get you I get you! [Nodding] especially because taehyuk himself mentioned that he considered himself Hyo-un's guardian when the topic of Hyo-un's affections were brought up! It gives me goosebumps because it's so weird... the story was so good before that T_T why do authors always have to bring children into it or make the dynamic so familial.....
No it really was, I was actually enjoying how he was slowly opening up and thier relationship was progressing. if anyone sees this and has some recs with similar dynamics to the first part of this story le me know
Ngl I had other ideas for their backstory too. But author truly went the easiest most basic route possible. Because how easy it is huh to be there at the right time to pick up a vulnerable dragon who easily imprinted on you and that's how y'alls began. And then the amnesia. I love love love taehyuk and hyoun as characters but goodness, the plot itself needs help lmao.
Couldn't agree more
Fr though I'm lowkey finding it cringe now
Okay first off I'm just blowing off some steam here cause it ticked me off.
-> this is not an invitation for you to come in my replies and be like "don't like? Don't read!" Cause it adds nothing to the conversation ^_^ I never even said I didn't like the story, I love Taehyuk and Hyo-un a lot EXCEPT for the part I'm ranting about <-
If I'm being honest I feel like the plot/backstory could have gone the exact same without taehyuk being the one to raise hyo-un (you might say "wouldnt Hyo-un be obsessed with the person who was raising him even if it wasnt taehyuk?": I mean there are alternatives... the Backstory didnt really need to start from his birth and there never needed to be somebody to raise Hyo-un... I feel like it would make him a bit more complex if he was forced to learn on his own completely unknowing of the ways of the world).
Like genuinely during the flashbacks I started cringing because with the way it was going sigmund freud would be doing backflips in his grave- probably shaking the earth above him..... It's weird that in like every rofan/isekai/reincarnation– whatever!
These days has a trope where they raise the person they fall in love with. It freaks me out that this is slowly becoming more and more normal to other people and other authors who think "yes I'll write this into my story!"
..... Before the flashbacks, they were cute and sweet- Personally I had already thought up possible plot points- like Taehyuk turns out to really not be Hyo-un's reincarnated mate but they learn to work around that and truly love eachother. Or sure, Taehyuk is his reincarnated mate but the fact Hyo-un calls him 'my lord' was maybe alluding to how they started off- maybe it was contractual or something.... that's how hooked i was on the story, I was really intrigued!
But instead, the backstory was that Taehyuk picks up a Dying Hyo-un who has no knowledge of anything... who literally had the mind and brain development of a child- and then they shack up because...? Ah because Hyo-un has an oedipus complex because he's entirely dependant on Taehyuk.... (a negative oedipus complex? What's the version for same-sex situations..? Whatever...)
now I'm not saying I don't like codependent yaoi, I don't have high standards. However it's just so.... ugh. I could not read the sex scenes during or after the flashback period because all I could think about was Hyo-un as a kid being raised by Taehyuk.
After the flashback part when the amnesia arc began Hyo-un goes back to calling him sir and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I am unfortunately forced to remember all that!
There were an infinite amount of probably better and probably worse backstories to explain Hyo-un's connection to Taehyuk.. and of course the author picked one of the weirdest ones.