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Even with a pain kink or whatever they can still have a normal talk (which they never do) when they’re not having sex. At least the saner of the 2 (ml) should know not to bring their sexual dynamics outside the bedroom but rn it looks like they cant escape this weird master-servant relationship even in everyday life because none of them wanna have that talk!
Im surprised at how not much people have picked up on this, but it's obvious that the mc pain kink or BDSM is a trauma response. He only feels love when he's being hurt by other people because that's how he was brought up. Mind you he had absolutely no parents and his guardian basically left him with basic necessities for surviveal. He was never allowed to build relationships with other people and being involved in a gang all he probably knew was violence, hence where he would develop a pain king as a trauma response.