Okay this is amazing! Although I was hoping for the other guy to be seme, because someone like Matthew being seme is kind of boring and overdone. But this is way more consensual than most of these kinds of stories (like Down and Dirty) but also has a lot of the tension that most stories like this have at the same time.
Yup! It's just as I said. The two villains in a man x man relationship are getting more depth and character development than most female villains ever get. Ugh.
^Agreed.
And just to clarify my original post I have no issue with the development of characters in a man x man relationship, it's just that if this were a female couple I suspect that the development of those characters would be given less depth, leading me to believe that this is more about gender than sexual orientation as many would have me believe.
...then you definitely shouldn't be reading my post (because, just so you know, going ahead and reading my comment in a situation like that is equivalent to someone downvoting a post just because they dislike opinions that aren't the same as theirs, then being miffed when someone downvotes their own post because of the rather harmful content their post displayed):
Lol gotta love the posts on this page! Everyone's jumping to defend a jerk ML because he has 'reasons'.
Does he explain those reasons to her from the very beginning? No. So those who defend him thank you for proving my point about him being a jerk. He doesn't call her by her name but STILL suspects she was brainwashed by him? Then she gets blamed by everyone else (especially the readers) for believing she was brainwashed? Um. HE'S the one who should know more about that than her yet no one's blaming him for not knowing that. Laughable.
And even if he didn't think she was brainwashed, that actually makes things worse, since readers would now be blaming her for responding negatively to being DELIBERATELY treated like a toy. And especially since readers are going on to blame the FL for feeling mistreated because she didn't do all the emotional labor she was 'supposed' to do without expecting anything in return. I mean those same readers even expect her to 'kommyewnikayt' with someone like him because it's the 'adult' thing to do. Except expecting a victim to communicate with their abuser has always been the least mature attitude for anyone to hold. It's just gaslighting folks! Buhbaiiiiinow.
Actually Nocton isn't really that bad of a guy. He has done some mean things in the past, but generally, most of the things he did had reason. Also, what they've shown from the past of Nocton and Valrose isn't the full story, so don't be too quick to paint him as a terrible guy. Its only just that were seeing things only from Valrose's perspective now.
Sigh people are complaining about her being saved all the time but then point out reasons why she can't do the things they demand of her (I mean, hello, different body for one. She was being burned at the stake with no weapons at hand, as soon as she woke up, so of course she had to run away from the large group of people following her and would faint after such an exhausting ordeal for two. For three, if you want the even more generic and cliched rebirth story where the MC remains a villainess and lacks compassion for the people around her, as you people seem to want, read Hey, Don't Touch My Cheese or CMMD). They also seem unable to realize that part of the reason we continue to get stories like this is because of them. Nor do they realize that the only credible reason to believe this story is rather mediocre is that it falls back on the cliche of making only FEMALE characters' lives h3ll.