The story does not want to paint this situation as okay, it doesnt want to portray this as love. It wants to show how someones experiences and trauma can fuck them up so bad, to the point that they dont even know what a normal and healthy relationship looks like. That your trauma can keep you from moving psychology and making progress as a person. It stopped nii-chan from moving forward as he got stuck in the same cycle and groomed a child as well, and now its stopping Yui from throwing away his abuser and continuing this illusion of a relationship.
What you're saying is exactly right but I feel like you fail to realize that what you're saying in a way was also what the author intended to portray.
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Their brains aren't capable of developing in a normal, functioning manner anymore, stunted due to trauma. Any relationship they might have will more than likely be unhealthy regardless... So, might as well be unhealthy and fucked up together until they die, it's the only path they can really take without causing anymore harm to others at this point. That, or kill themselves. Either way, nothing will truly change for them. It is what it is.
,,, therapy????
Lol it's worth trying but I really doubt it'd do anything substantial for drastic cases like these. There's only so much the human mind can endure to then attempt fixing.
Don't get me wrong, they should go to therapy regardless. But given their circumstances and the kind of society they live in, it more than likely won't help them from spiraling.
i think it's realistic up until the part where they fucking end up together in the end. even if he had some sort of revelation and wanted to live as a "normal person" wouldn't it make sense to cut off all ties with your personal foray into pedophilia so that he could also have some semblance of a healthy life?? what nii-chan and yui have is not love. it's just a trauma bond and it's really fucking sad that in the end it's treated like love. like...what does he love about this guy? the answer is is that he was the only one to show him affection when he was a child, and now he thinks that he can get nii-chan's affection by having sex with him. nii-chan perpetuates this by making him believe that he's disgusting and twisted for doing these things, and that nii-chan's the only one who truly understands him. that's the extent of their relationship.
nii-chan should've just offed himself honestly. at that point you've already scarred a child beyond repair and you're too beyond repair yourself to even leave him the fuck alone so you might as well just die. just because you've groomed and raped a child until he was of legal age doesn't actually make it okay
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