Please don't let

was he?

i dont think he was, he turned down austins blowjob request when he was in school and just said he didnt want austin to tell him that he was attracted to him when he was his teacher. i think sharpe is attracted to austin now, but i dont think he was when austin was a minor

Sharpe having flashbacks to how AJ looked when younger was indicative of a slight attraction even back then

He declined the BJ stuff cause it's obviously illegal and it would jeopardise his cover, but I think it's strongly hinted that he found AJ attractive even as a student.

His monologue with Warren is indicative of this. He's playing it up to hide his tracks, sure, but there's always truth to his lies (as even Sharpe himself taught AJ how to do)

Yess thank youuu oh my lawd. And like when he showed signs of feeling "guilty" when aj brought up the past as teacher and student and how Sharpe said to add truths to your lie-making his conversation with Warren all the more questionable. Also the "only you" aspect is rlly weird but I think it's done on purpose, I rlly hope aj gets his happy ending

Yess thank youuu oh my lawd. And like when he showed signs of feeling "guilty" when aj brought up the past as teacher and student and how Sharpe said to add truths to your lie-making his conversation with Warren all the more questionable. Also the "only you" aspect is rlly weird but I think it's done on purpose, I rlly hope aj gets his happy ending

You can find someone attractive without being sexually or romantically attracted to them.

It's like how hetero people can find people of the same sex attractive or a gay man can find a woman attractive. You can tell a homie that he's hot without wanting to jump his bones.

You can say a teen actor is gorgeous or beautiful without wanting to bang them, correct? Calling a kid cute doesn't mean you find them sexually attractive. You can see the beauty or attractiveness in someone without equating it to sex and I think that's ya'll's problem.

Also, the reason Sharpe doesn't want AJ talking about how he wanted to bang him as a teacher comes from Sharpe not wanting those memories of them being teacher and student to be tainted. He doesn't want to be told that a kid he once looked out for and helped to educate thought about fucking him 'cause it makes him feel weird as an educater and caretaker.

Ya'll are trying to read too deeply into how Sharpe is teaching AJ how to do espionage and thinking that everything they say to each other is some sort of mind game.

See , YOU’RE actually reading the story properly bc that’s what I’ve got too. Sharpe didn’t want to bang AJ when he was a minor bc he wasn’t interested in him sexually nor romantically.
In fact, I’m pretty sure AJ disgusted him that time

Same. I'm not sure why stupid people read these sorts of comics to cry about them anyway, it's pretty dumb. It's very clearly going to end with them together.

Clock ittt

I really hope so, I started reading this long time ago and actually like it. I hate age gaps, so I’m just tryna stay blissfully ignorant about theirs because everything besides that is pretty healthy with them

Personally, I hate age gaps, but I really like everything about them besides that. Like, everything is super healthy other than that part of their past that makes it questionable. Normally I would drop, but rn I’m trying to stay blissfully ignorant and deny any possible messed up stuff cause I really like the comic

I think people who never read anything even remotely controversial are boring AF and can't tell reality from fiction is all lol I honestly don't care if something in a comic is morally grey seeming when we know for a fact nothing happened until right now. Even fictionally, AJ wasn't groomed or hurt by Sharpe, so I could go e two shits about their FICTIONAL age gap tbh. I'd rather focus on the fact there wasn't SA between the main characters in a BL for once and be happy lol

voiced my entire thoughts. W take

He was disgusted at that time when AJ offered to give him a bj lol it grossed him out not only as an adult but as an educator. It also probably hurt him or made him feel pity for someone so young that was already used to giving sexual favors for personal gain.

For once we get a series where the teacher didn't want to fuck his student, yet people are desperately trying to spin it that way just so they can feel disgusted over something that didn't happen lol

Sharpe is such a green flag, too. He wants AJ to have a happy life. He controls himself even when AJ is the one making advances 'cause he knows afterwards AJ would be the one hurt. He wants to protect AJ from the ones that were abusing him. Part of what he's doing is obviously for himself, but the reason he chose AJ is 'cause if they succeed he's the one that gets his freedom and life back.

People are just fucking dumb lol

I do my best lol

Lmao I read controversial shit. In fact, I probably read some of the most abusive fanfics and webtoons (dropped them now) there are. I don’t really think questionable age gaps are morally grey. I love morally grey characters the most, but dating people you knew as kids or who are under 25 and don’t have their brains even fully developed when you’re around your 30’s or so, is not something I find to be morally grey lol
Also, why does not reading toxic things immediately make you think someone can’t tell reality from fiction? Really weird take. You said it yourself that you like the fact there wasn’t SA between the characters. Does that mean you can’t tell the difference between fictional SA and real one? Didnt think so. People have different standards for fiction. If you don’t care about age gaps, that’s good for you, but don’t try to push your standards onto other people. Clearly, you have your own boundaries when it comes to fiction, so don’t act like it’s weird for others to have their own.
And yes, besides age gap aspect, I like how healthy their relationship is, which is why I’m ignoring it. I like the story, idk why you kinda acting like it was a hate comment. I just shared my personal feelings on it, never said u gotta agree with it lol

I’m really glad how consensual overall the story is. It’s very rare for BLs. That’s what makes me read it and ignore even things I normally would hate. A lot of BLs could def learn a thing or two from Sharpe about consent and actual care towards your partner. It’s a good story. Also, I love the art style, it’s very unique too

YOU ATE THIS TAKE UP

Exactly!!!

Thank you for this just cause Sharpe is a relatively green flag character doesn't mean this aspect should be ignored. He literally says that if he indulges AJ he's no better than Warren... and then later on indulges. Consensually, great, but still. He's self aware of that, aware of not just the age gap mentally, but also there is a huge power imbalance where Sharpe holds so much sway over AJ (giving orders, dangling the promise of freedom, financial dependence and could kill him any time).

Everyone who consumes fiction comes at it with their own perspective. Yes I picked this up knowing it was BL, but I brought my own biases into it because the story shows so much of AJ as a child slipping into this life. So I stand firmly with initial comment of saying protect AJ from all adults including Sharpe.

AJ was an abused kid who ended up in a terrible situation with limited hope and options. Sharpe, the same adult who saw AJ grow up as his student, held him to the standard of "You're here because you made your own poor decisions," is the same adult manipulating AJ to spy for him. Even if AJ wasn't drugged, abused, rejected, and abandoned, if he was my kid and I found out that his old teacher had fallen for him when his frontal lobe isn't even fully developed yet, when this teacher had watched my kid grow up and now was trying to be romantically and sexually involved with AJ, even if he tried to tell me "oh I wasn't attracted to your kid in school I just found them aesthetically beautiful as a minor," I'm not listening and it's still on sight.

In a world of Killing Stalking, Jinx, Painter of the Night, etc., yes Sharpe is a better man. But I'm tired of the leeway given to men in situations like this when the bar is in hell.

My initial comment was Protect AJ from all adults; I didn't say You're personally weird if you enjoy this story. But if I'm gonna be deemed weird for 'reading too deeply' into this narrative, I'd take that any day over the mental gymnastics being done to give men, even fictional men, so much undeserved grace.