yk I was actually looking forward to "Yours to Claim" at some point. Ive been reading it since the beginning and I was really interested to how the author dealt with the chase arc...aaaand all I was met with was disappointment. Yawhi just kept giving me secondhand embarrassment and still I hoped for SOMETHING GOOD JUST TO BE MET WITH A TIME SKIP AND BAM they back together, I literally was like "that's it?"
"Shuffle" was also extremely disappointing. I was expecting something like Seme treats Uke bad because misunderstanding but then finds the truth and chase arc. NOTHING, NO CHASE ARC, UKE HAD NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, SEME BARELY APOLOGIZED FOR TREATING THE UKE LIKE SHIT, THERE WAS NOTHING.
"Unscented trajectory" as well, y'all couldn't have made the chase arc A BIT LONGER??? he just forgave him AFTER EVERYTHING HE SAID AND DID TO HIM.
"Black lotus" where do I even begin...the seme DID NOT DESERVE TO BE FORGIVEN. Like usually ill forgive a seme if he groveled enough, NOPE NOT THIS ASSHOLE. HE DIDN'T DESERVE ANYTHING, THE UKE SHOULDVE JUST REVENGE THEN LEFT, BYE FUCK YOU ALL. BUT AT THE VERY END, HE FORGAVE HIM??? AFTER EVERYTHING HE DID TO YOU??? AFTER HE SMASHED YOUR DECEASED MOTHER'S PIANO??? DID HE EVER FIX THAT SHIT??? NO WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU???
AND LETS NOT TALK ABOUT HWANG YOUNG'S MISERY. I mean the ending wasn't bad but it was just so unsettling.
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The black hair seme dies and the Uke gets with the 2nd lead just to follow in the footsteps of the black hair seme, and state hallucinating about him? like if you asked me I would've wanted the black hair to live, but having the Uke end up with the second lead (who wasn't much better than the first one btw) was so brother eughhh. The story messes with your psychology and makes you want to sympathize with the psycho first lead rather than the second one so why kill off the first one in the end. I still loved the story, but it just left me so unsettled.
I don't think there's ever been a more disappointing ending than that in a yaoi. Any others that are on that level of RUINING a perfectly good story with some trash at the end?