damn gurl, you worded out that better than i could ever have.
You ateeee
That's what I've been saying lol
The author cannot build up a romantic relationship at all between them and it really shows through and through. Like 85% of scenes between them were smut, 10% was JK being an asshole and 5% was of JK doing the bare minimum and somehow we are meant to believe that Dan fell in love with the guy in a plausible way when all we remember is the smut where the only saving grace is the art cuz their sexual chemistry ain't even good.
For this relationship to seem plausible either of those characters have to be re-written completely: Either JK gets toned tf down and maybe still is a bad but not all around abusive and is atill able to grow as a person, just give him more complexity OR imo the funnier route make Dan a little asshole bastard with a bunch of backbone but only towards JK, like Dan is an angel to everyone else otherwise. You have no idea how fun this story could be if it was mutually toxic yaoi instead.
Or if it was a psychological thriller story where Dan gets out of this abusive relationship and then learns the way assassinating your ex which is how he meets a better not abusive boyfriend and then they bang consentually after having murdered and disposed of horse face. Honestly I should re-write Jinx out of spite like that some time lmfao
Your ideas are 1000 times better than the current plot lol
I don’t quite understand why people are saying a redemption arc of him begging or grovelling will suffice? The author couldn’t dream up a plausible reason for them to enter a normal relationship with love if they tried. The ML is a psychopath with no empathy and the MC has zero self worth. Neither of them are capable of being in love with anyone else let alone each other. You can’t love anyone if you don’t love yourself and you can’t love others if you lack the ability to empathise with them. I don’t understand how author forgot these basic things when writing the characters. Dan is fine and as a character he can grow and find self worth and courage. But the ML is simply an irredeemable maniac.
The psychological damage alone wouldn’t even allow for a relationship on any level whatsoever.
And obviously the author was so high of drawing the abusive porn they forgot that they wrote the ML into a corner and now lazily just copying and pasting the same dynamics from BJ Alex when characters had to change to progress the relationship.
The toxicity is not whats shocking or even a problem it’s just the sheer arrogance of writing such a crap plot, with crap characters. I dunno man i feel like author-nim needs to be humbled it shouldn’t be acceptable to shill out gold plated crap.