Amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing I love it give me 1000 of them
Someone gotta spoil me how much worse could it possibly get
So haesoo kidnapped him and chained him up in the middle of nowhere, SA him once but now asks for consent to kiss…..? I’m so confused. I’m… I .. I guess that’s … development?…yay!
Minho I love you you’re so me core no one understands you like I do Minho no one understands you like me I’m the only one who udnwrrmads tou minho don’t listen to the haters they don’t get it
CHAPTER 4 IS FUCKED???? I SKIPPED ALL THE WAY TO 20 TO COMMENT THIS BUT WHY IS THE BLAKC HAIR GUY TALKING ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH THE QHITE HAIR GUY, WHO WAS A LITERAL KID AT THW TIME????? WHAT
Got spoiled that the only sane person in this series (blonde guy) ends up fucking MC I was hoping the blonde guy would find out, kick out (the gray hair guy I forgot his name already) and live happily ever after with the mc …
Okay wait let me gimme my two(or three) cents about this story(from the authors perspective) & address how explicit the rape scenes are:
1. Authors intention: For me, this story was super traumatic to the point where I physically can’t stomach reading 99% of the visuals in the story. It doesn’t seem seriously romanticized bc of how realistic geom’s trauma responses (fawning, hyper sexuality, trauma bonding) is. As a survivor myself (not TO THIS EXTENT OFC) but I think the author has a pretty good understanding of trauma responses in these situations. I didn’t feel like the rape + situation was glorified at any point, the way it was drawn & written seemed more like emotional gore than anything. I think the Author’s intention definitely was not to romanticize SA and trafficking mainly, but to write a tragedy that involves those themes.
2. Explicit rape scenes: I don’t think this manhwa would’ve been as traumatic to me if there wasn’t these super explicit, graphic and excessive rape scenes. Every single one of these scenes (even just seeing Geom naked) made my stomach drop and made me sick. I didn’t feel… like the rape was romanticized at any point either, I didn’t feel like it was drawn with the intention of arousing the audience. I think it was drawn to break the 4th wall and immerse the readers in the RAPISTS’ view, hence the close ups of specific body parts. Certain scenes of rape seemed to disembody Geom’s body (close up, especially,) from readers’ POV, which possibly is meant to imitate how the rapists view Geom. I have a very vivid memory (unfortunately) of around chapter 30-40(?) where there flashback of Geom getting taken to Rieder’s grand opening club thing happened. The way he was drawn at the end, the way he was positioned didn’t seem romanticized to me. (As a victim this might just me how I see it) it seemed more… artistic and tragic. The way the manhwa was stylized without any bright colours, vividity and life (except in the flashbacks) implies the author’s underlying intention of tragedy, despair and suffering. As well, that drawing of Geom (if I remember correctly, it was just him in the dark without any background) seemed more like HIS OWN VIEW of himself, since there wasn’t a background.
Extra: analysis of Geom (I haven’t read this manhwa properly in a WHILE but I’ll do what I can)
As a teen/young adult: Geom seemed isolated from people his own age. He was assaulted by his dad & his mother divorced his dad, but his mom still blames him. Geom (around middle school-high school) began learning how to appeal to older men for affection and attention, likely something that made him feel safer around older men. This was probably a fawn response + hypersexuality, self objectification + a self esteem reliant on outside influences + isolation from peers.
During university, Geom was quite passive and stopped reaching out to older men, but from a scene around 27-37, we see that he still applies his knowledge on seducing others, though he’s not as proactive with it. Most of the time I’ve seen him “seduce” others, it was when they made him feel unsafe. (around the chapter where he went “I’m a virgin”, I think it was bc some guys were calling him a man whore.) Clearly, Geom has already had a pattern of using fawning and self objectification (using his appeal, appearance and body to feel safe, knowing how to “market” himself as a part of seduction) as a coping mechanism.
I don’t wanna analyze anything past university era bc its still rly difficult for me at this point, but I hope this help people understand the characters and author more (●'◡'●)ﾉ
new semester new sex trafficking manhwa… looks like it’s gonna be romanticized as well (not like missing love my love) ..
DAWWDWDWWWWWWEQEWAFAGAGHD ITS SK CUTE enjoy ur break authornim
Is doha sabotaging bada actually ?? Did this confirm it ? From washing his hairpins down the drain, not wanting to be apart from Bada (remember when the bridge collapsed after bada ran through it and Doha was behind him?) ..
Dooshit you fucked him so bad his PTSD came back what the hell
