I wanna preface this by saying I do like this story, I'm enjoying it I just have a few gripes that are tainting my experience. Okay so I left this yaoi to simmer for a bit and coming back, I can say that I'm honestly a bit disappointed. I think the plot and the art is great but I think the away the author has handled it and the characters is frustrating. For example (srry gonna use Uke/seme here cause I'm bad with names) the uke obviously has some horrible trauma that informs his actions/choices/decisions but we barely learn any of that from him and we never get to hear his internal monologuing/thoughts regarding his trauma in particular, it's always speculation/ exposition from other characters and based on comments from earlier chapters you can easily tell that people can't understand his actions or choices because the author has given us no direct reasons beyond surface level to think that his trauma would impact him to think so illogically. Another issue is the seme. Honestly I don't blame the uke for thinking the seme didn't genuinely like him, the way he treats him is so strange. It's like instead of carefully walking him through things he's coming on incredibly strong after acknowledging that his behaviour towards the Uke was shitty?? And then the first thing he does when he gets the answer he wants is have sex with the Uke, not only that but he uses sex as a way to get him to agree to dating him? Obviously I haven't seen how this story will progress but realistically I can't see him being comfortable in a relationship where they didn't even work through their issues to get to that point. Sorry if this just sounds like waffle, I really do like this story and o hope everything works out, it's just frustrating at points.
I wanna preface this by saying I do like this story, I'm enjoying it I just have a few gripes that are tainting my experience. Okay so I left this yaoi to simmer for a bit and coming back, I can say that I'm honestly a bit disappointed. I think the plot and the art is great but I think the away the author has handled it and the characters is frustrating. For example (srry gonna use Uke/seme here cause I'm bad with names) the uke obviously has some horrible trauma that informs his actions/choices/decisions but we barely learn any of that from him and we never get to hear his internal monologuing/thoughts regarding his trauma in particular, it's always speculation/ exposition from other characters and based on comments from earlier chapters you can easily tell that people can't understand his actions or choices because the author has given us no direct reasons beyond surface level to think that his trauma would impact him to think so illogically. Another issue is the seme. Honestly I don't blame the uke for thinking the seme didn't genuinely like him, the way he treats him is so strange. It's like instead of carefully walking him through things he's coming on incredibly strong after acknowledging that his behaviour towards the Uke was shitty?? And then the first thing he does when he gets the answer he wants is have sex with the Uke, not only that but he uses sex as a way to get him to agree to dating him? Obviously I haven't seen how this story will progress but realistically I can't see him being comfortable in a relationship where they didn't even work through their issues to get to that point. Sorry if this just sounds like waffle, I really do like this story and o hope everything works out, it's just frustrating at points.