The french captain has become my favourite lead character from, I think, all BL as well as a lot of hetero and GL romances that I've come across in a while. Thanks for calling the purser guy out for having treated his late best friend disrespectfully and unfairly by viewing their friendship as inferior and inadequate to a romantic relationship, only useful if it served as a stepping stone to the romantic relationship he desired.
Barring some classic shoujo and shoujo ai and some newer ones which have carried on their essence, that are just absolute angels which depict romantic relationships in a healthy manner, where they respect the natural hierarchy of human relationships and harmoniously and synergistically coexist with familial and friendship bonds, romance genre is otherwise horrible with treating family and friendships with the respect they deserve. Romance genre is plagued with stories that keep depicting and validating toxic romantic relationships that try to denigrate people's familial and friendship bonds so that they can displace these central, more important relationships and usurp their position.
The french captain has become my favourite lead character from, I think, all BL as well as a lot of hetero and GL romances that I've come across in a while. Thanks for calling the purser guy out for having treated his late best friend disrespectfully and unfairly by viewing their friendship as inferior and inadequate to a romantic relationship, only useful if it served as a stepping stone to the romantic relationship he desired.
Barring some classic shoujo and shoujo ai and some newer ones which have carried on their essence, that are just absolute angels which depict romantic relationships in a healthy manner, where they respect the natural hierarchy of human relationships and harmoniously and synergistically coexist with familial and friendship bonds, romance genre is otherwise horrible with treating family and friendships with the respect they deserve. Romance genre is plagued with stories that keep depicting and validating toxic romantic relationships that try to denigrate people's familial and friendship bonds so that they can displace these central, more important relationships and usurp their position.