I laughed like she was joking and that he accidentally agreed. Until he said he actually was and I audibly yelled REALLY. Out of all ASPD representation, I never thought I would see such a good representation in a manwha
What about LOVE? I can’t see him as a potential love interest. If he can’t emphasise he can’t understand her feelings even by being friends less by being partners. Lets say he was a sociopath instead i could imagine that scenario. But psychopaths are driven by whatever thoughts they are having in the moment, because they cannot process the feeling they just act as they want to. Let’s just say he thinks he’s in love, but he knows, she doesn’t want him. Do you think this guy would blink twice before trying to make this girl his? By any way he thinks is OK, like kidnapping…
Ooor we could be reminded that this is fiction even if it *kinda* feels realistic in a few places... I believe the story didn't promise a Disney ending. In my opinion, it is leaning bitter sweet, but nothing too dramatic. And dropping the psychopath character is a wild card, this could be very nuanced or just be a click bait for grey characters
Well i know is fiction, and i’m not expecting a cliche ending but i’m not expecting an unrealistic ending also. There’s nothing wrong with cliche, also that’s why i was expecting a love triangle but personally the psychopath thing took that possibility because for him to be a endgame alternative is too much unrealistic for me.
He's a wildcard, I don't really see the connection between that type of character and this type of story. I would like a good love story with a realistic portrayed psycho, not just the usual domineering guys. But let's see, I guess, the main male lead is barely functional, I prefer the psycho, at least he knows what he wants.
If this is about your taste ok, that should not be the matter of this, debate? I also have my tastes and is ok, has nothing to do with yours. but for me u are contradicting yourself by saying it would be a “realistic love story” if a wildcard psycho turns out to be a lead. Just for the simple fact that psycho can’t love.
Tastes apart. One thing is how the author handles the story, another what "realistic" would look like. It's not a documentary, just a romantic story and not too heavy or committed to realism at that, not that it has to. And psychopaths CAN ABSOLUTELY LOVE, that's just a fact of psychology. Love is not this magical idea that everything is sane and pretty. Love is just chemical based affection. Love from anyone can be toxic, selfish, delusional... One doesn't need to be a psychopath to love love like that. What psychopaths don't feel, is emotional empathy, or regret. Now, just because someone doesn't have a leg doesn't mean they won't be able to walk. For psychopaths, relationships will always be extra, extra challenging, but not necessarily impossible. There's "functional psychopathy" too, like everything else, it is a spectrum, no black and white.
You say ‘tastes apart’, but that might actually be the core of the issue here. Sure, the author can take the story wherever they want, that’s creative freedom. But when we discuss what makes a good or believable romantic ending, personal beliefs and values about love naturally come into mind.
You believe love is just a chemical reaction, and I disagree, and that might just be where our views start to clash. To me, love isn’t just about brain chemistry; it’s about emotional connection, empathy, mutual care. Psychopaths might form attachments or simulate affection, but usually those connections are self-serving or manipulative, not love in the deeper, emotional sense.
So if psychopathy involves emotional processing, especially in areas like empathy and remorse, then yes! it affects their capacity to love in the way I believe love should be .
It affects the way they *reciprocate* feelings, not the way they *feel* them. Love is not just what the word implies when marketing romance, love engages behavior, action, psychology, neurology, personality, age, sex, gender, culture... Long ass etc. Empathy can exist without love. Love can hurt and even kill when paired with ignorance or irresponsibility. Love defines just the wants, not the outcome. One can love unilaterally, or be reciprocated, or miss the mark completely and love a chair instead of a real person. Love is not bidimensional, nor are the people who love either.
I can’t remember what this was about in the first place. Because u are focusing in different points in each reply. Now it seems u don’t believe in love or at least the type we are made to believe there exists correct? So with that u stand and defend that the outcome of this’s story could be realistic is the author changed the ending by making the psychopath a “perfect mach”. So just say u would like a DIFFERENT NOT PREDICTABLE ENDING. If psychopaths can’t *reciprocate* feeling genuinely can u say is love? Empathy can exist without love yes, but love without empathy? Hell no.
Let's take an example: I have a dog and he is very important to me. My boyfriend, being a psychopath, can understand that the feeling for the dog is love. One day my dog ran away, and I was devastated. My boyfriend, realizing that I was sad, patted me on the back. Anyone who doesn't know that he was the one who left the door open because he felt that the dog received more attention them him, would think that those pats were an act of empathy when in fact he knew that I would be sad, because he knew that I loved my dog. He just couldn’t put himself in my shoes and realize that the sadness I would feel would be proportional to the amount of love I felt for my dog. He only did that because although he knows how to recognize my feelings, he could never feel what I feel for the dog. The only thing he knows is that now the dog isn’t around and even though i’m sad he could comfort me until feel better and now the dog isn’t around, he feels in control a win is a win. U are saying this can be called love?
The psychopath thing was a surprise, being a psychopath is not a synonym with serial killer, it means they feel no empathy. But they CAN be good friends, they CAN be even at least decent partners. But like him now, they need to take it upon themselves to be responsible and to *want* to understand. People around them. They feel no regret, but guess what, they CAN feel love. They will always have a selfish undertone (at the very least), but that doesn't mean they can't achieve a good relationship if they are very responsible and really put honest effort into it. Empathy is not "felt with emotions" but they can learn to "understand emotional responses and weight" rationally.