I think it's actually the same message from their first story.
A desire to be accepted despite flaws. He still has that desire even though he's not ugly and fat like his father. He's still afraid that it he loses his looks he'll be rejected.
But him becoming bald and or being insecure has nothing to do with him wanting to sleep with his stepmother. For me the story should have ended when she concocted the hair solution.
It does though?
That was why we had the comparison between the step-mother and the ex-fiance. Basically, she's the 'best woman' is the point of all this.
It seemed a shallow want to me. Don't think he said he wanted to sleep with her, did he? Only marriage/making her his wasn't it?
I think Tsubasa said something along these lines.'Boys are in love with their mothers until they grow up and find a wife'. Which at the time was ironic because Kurogane and Fai are THE old married couple. But it was to indicate how boys/men are clingy little mamas boys until they mature.
Pretty sure that's what this is about. It didn't seem very sincere that they would hook up in the future, especially considering her tastes.
You do have a point, but to me, that narrative would work only if he was 13 y.o. or younger. I'm not very knowledgeable about oedipus complex, but I don't believe he is in the development stage in which that complex occurs.
However, I do understand what you mean and even agree to certain extent, but I feel that if that's what the author intended, he didn't chose the right medium. As it is, it's too short, and could cause reactions such as the one I had. I held no empathy for him, and maybe if there was some backstory and explanation I would.
But overall, even if he's just idolizing her as the "best woman", it doesn't sound good him antecipating his father's death so that he can "take" her and her baby. I find if off putting.
(That could also be because I loved the first story a lot, and the sudden appearance of a new, unnecessary and completely opposed to the Prime Minister in appearance "love interest" annoyed me)
Why is that stinky boy eyeing Celestine on V.3Ch04? I want her to be happy with her fluffy baldie in peace (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I can't help but think this was a subtle way the author found to fatshame? Like, make the couple with the prime mininster just for giggles and fun, and then later bring the "skinny, handsome hottie", to "straighten" the story... I'm extremely disappointed, Celestine's was my favorite story, and I was even loving her dynamics with her husband in this new chapter, until that stinky asshole started thinking about waiting for his own dad to die so he could "make her his" (╬￣皿￣)凸