Believe it or not, I loooove this trope. Stories like this are so fun! But only AFTER it comes full circle. As in, I’ll be annoyed and angry while our lovable innocent mc who actively does no wrong gets hurt and abused over and over again, because that’s how you should feel about a good person getting tortured (fictional or not).
Whereas I’m happy, and excited, and having FUN when the previous abuser becomes an obsessed whipped pathetic loser (in the kindest way possible) and begins pining for our loveable mc, aiming to give him the happiest life possible that he’s been deprived of for so long.
They basically become the Zuko of yaoi men, and it’s incredibly fun to watch, because that personality change is the only thing stopping them from being completely insufferable. Riding with the abusive character and being impassive to the angel characters suffering just because they’re hot, even though the abusive character is the definition of a piece of shit is very strange!
And it would make me side eye you if I knew you irl! Because where are the morals?! People with morals are so hot! Zuko is so hot! Why don’t you want to be hot?!
Why does it always have to be one way or the other? Can y’all not acknowledge that the story/art is entertaining while also acknowledging that both of our current tops suck ass? Lmao.
I’m sure most people here have read BJ Alex, and probably liked it as well. There’s a difference between not liking a character and not liking an entire body of work. The tops are literally meant to be pricks who end up becoming whipped to the point where they have to force themselves to be less pieces of shit for the MC to give them the time of day after practically torturing them.
I’m just patiently waiting for hints of Doc’s pull back (because he’s practically never smiling when he’s with these dudes, because Jaekyung thinks physical pleasure is the only source of joy when Doc just wants to be treated with kindness, not fucked into submission), and I’m waiting for Jaekyung to fall, fuck everything up, and become a miserable mess of a failure because he’s an asshole, so that he has room to better himself and do everything in his power (which he has a lot of, hence the unhealthy toxic and borderline-abusive power dynamic that yaoi authors are obsessed with) to make Doc as happy as he deserves to be.
Like the dudes an Angel, like a literal sweet hearted healer who only ever cares about others, never himself. So why are y’all shocked when we’re defensive of him and pissed at the abusive tops? That’s the point of the story.
So you bet your ass I’m gonna complain about how shitty these guys are, because that’s how they’re meant to be perceived. If you have to literally set your morals and ethics and perceptions of Right vs. Wrong and Likeable vs. Unlikeable on fire just to enjoy a body of work (let’s be honest, it’s mostly because you’re horny) with purposely shitty characters, you’re a weirdo and should be seen as such lmfao.