Can I just say that I love how mature ML is? Like, sometimes love interests “holding back” or not saying it out of some misunderstanding or misreading can either be frustrating or downright icky, but this isn’t so bad?? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he’s a regressor who has already experienced the helplessness and devastation of having failed to protect everything he cared for. Like, obviously MC is essential to saving the world so she must be alive to do so and in order for them to achieve this, it’s better they have a functional working relationship because their powers are co-dependent. But ML also demonstrated he has a clear understanding of MC’s boundaries—she might display interest based on her reactions to his not-subtle displays of affection, but she’s not ready to move beyond where they are now, and he respects that. His romantic feelings towards her come behind her happiness and well-being, which in turn are essential to the whole “world-saving” plan considering how often they coincide. Also he knows she’s someone from an entirely different world and is still figuring things out. No, I’m not counting the teasing. . But also Girl you have a man that checks off the entire ML bingo card already in love with you, please put your rofan goggles back on.
Can I just say that I love how mature ML is? Like, sometimes love interests “holding back” or not saying it out of some misunderstanding or misreading can either be frustrating or downright icky, but this isn’t so bad?? I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he’s a regressor who has already experienced the helplessness and devastation of having failed to protect everything he cared for. Like, obviously MC is essential to saving the world so she must be alive to do so and in order for them to achieve this, it’s better they have a functional working relationship because their powers are co-dependent. But ML also demonstrated he has a clear understanding of MC’s boundaries—she might display interest based on her reactions to his not-subtle displays of affection, but she’s not ready to move beyond where they are now, and he respects that. His romantic feelings towards her come behind her happiness and well-being, which in turn are essential to the whole “world-saving” plan considering how often they coincide. Also he knows she’s someone from an entirely different world and is still figuring things out. No, I’m not counting the teasing.
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But also Girl you have a man that checks off the entire ML bingo card already in love with you, please put your rofan goggles back on.