If I remember in the novel correctly the bottom wasn’t no longer at the mercy of the top when they decided on this type of relationship he definitely wasn’t a blushing whimpering idiot, i swear he was more colder and the top was an asshole but he was hiding his fear that the bottom would leave him. The bottom was definitely not acting like this in the side stories novel… this adaptation is taking liberties. It was hella tense in the side stories between the two of them and complicated the bottom was lonely and conflicted, whilst the top was scared that he would come home and the bottom wouldn’t be there one day, this just skips right past them and removes a lot of stuff just to get to the sex part. Thats why the MC seems weird.
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If I remember in the novel correctly the bottom wasn’t no longer at the mercy of the top when they decided on this type of relationship he definitely wasn’t a blushing whimpering idiot, i swear he was more colder and the top was an asshole but he was hiding his fear that the bottom would leave him. The bottom was definitely not acting like this in the side stories novel… this adaptation is taking liberties. It was hella tense in the side stories between the two of them and complicated the bottom was lonely and conflicted, whilst the top was scared that he would come home and the bottom wouldn’t be there one day, this just skips right past them and removes a lot of stuff just to get to the sex part. Thats why the MC seems weird.