holy shittttt okay grandpa. went crazy w those hooks
who tf runs away from someone after a confession
bro id actually become EVIL if someone did that shit to me w
tbh i feel bad for everyone here, but especially for the dad. you rlly just work a shit-ass 9-5 for a family you love but never see only to get swallowed by the cryptic eldritch monster that's been residing in ur resident that ur other baby son knew about, but never wanted to burden you with.
The dad also kept getting his memories erased too.
Fucked up.
Also was it ever mentioned how the little brother had that thing inside of him?
does this mean the dandelion-haired basketball player of a cousin was also royalty in his past life, or does blood and familiarity not tie 2 souls together. cuz realistically, relatives or friends in the current may not exist iin one’s past life. what’s to say two souls ever recycle into the same timeline, either?
i LOVE how fleshed out all of the characters are. for smth taht's only 16 chapters, it feels like while i'm still at the beginning of the exposition, i've spent hours reading it. i can confidently say i'm more aware of what all the side characters are doing rn more than i am with the MC, and i'm honestly in love with that. because MC clearly's got his own shit going on, with some deep depression, but you can see the slight shift in how he replies to the guy he did the hand-combat with when asked what his sect is, versus in the beginning when he told his own senior that he had 0 ties to wudang and its name. meanwhile the same senior no longer holds back his fist to wait for his opponent's reply as he once did in earlier chapters when representing wudang, and now accommodating the new martial arts to his representation of wudang. because MC utilizes the old martial arts, such as drunken footwork and traditions of combat, while now, his senior brother is using more pragmatic fighting styles that don't display the same flexibility that traditional martial arts might offer in one's daily life outside of just fighting.
he stresses me out not bc of anything he's done but bc he's literally someone who doesn't seem to have ever felt happiness. he literally could be considered the most "normal" dude out there (assault waved off as sexual encounters being a part of normalized society), and therefore he wouldn't have such a tragic or explicitly abusive childhood to give him an inkling that life could be so happy in comparison. rather, the normalization of emptiness is such a silent death of so many ppl, it makes me sad LOL. like i'm stressed for this dude LOL
so many ppl hate the blood cult leader, but tbh, i love him. he's like our honorary annoying cast member, the diversity card amongst our personality hires. i also like how him and the scrawny dude r like, foils or smth (idk, my brain isnt big enough for this), but like, one is metaphorically chained, and the other is literally geographically chained, yet appear outwardly different, but are complementary in both personality and desires. both seem to really only have one main reason to live, and that is for freedom. you see that both are seemingly obsessed with the idea of freedom, fields, grass, and clear skies, as shown through the chained man's hallucinations, and the blood lord (or whatever he's called)'s generational trauma of wanting to escape the badlands. and it's like, the chained man has no will to live, and is selfless in the sense that he wants to escape this world to live freely, while the other dude is greedy for life and materialistic things, because he wants his people to live on free land. it's like one is comparably selfless bc the other appears selfish, but the selfish one is borne from a desire to preserve his people, and the other just does not gaf and i think that's rlly funny. and ik that one is meant to be dumb and the other is meant to be the strategist, but they both like to scream a lot idk LMAOO. idk, this is like, what i imagine some werid biblical moses to be like LOLLL
this is so corny that im glad these aren't real ppl so that i can clown on someone's source of trauma without feeling bad bc what the actual fresh hell is this
like by this point just romanticize the hell out of the "abusive father who turned to alcoholism after his wife died," trope. like why did u have to make us sit through that LMAOOOO like i feel bad bc the author clearly put time into all those angles and shit, but like,,,, idk man
i couldnt even get halfway through the 3rd chapter. the ML is such a self-righteous piece of shit who justified and deluded himself into not giving a fuck about MC’s feelings or autonomy outside of his own selfishness
It’s actually disturbing how awful he is, and I actually love the author’s work outside of the one couple where the ML was a reformed virgin Sexual Assaulter themselves paired up with promiscuous self harming bottom who I didn’t exactly love but at least had depth. This is just standard omegaverse slop and it’s just disappointing
I’ve actually never read any of the others’ work, but due to this one’s high rating I had higher expectations, ripp. I’m also glad to see someone agree with me, bc while i didnt expect this story to flop bc the artstyle is good and the plot could be interesting to a lot of ppl, i personally was surprised by how little ppl are discussing whether or not ML’s character is controversial, much less that it IS controversial (esp given how quickly ppl like to stand on righteousness or morality). like i get that this ML is catered specifically to an audience that loves rlly obsessive characters, but youd expect more ppl who dont like this personality to jump in with a more objective view of ML, like usually on this site there’s always a balance of that in the comments, alongside a party of ppl who love the character but acknowledge that it’s their demented personality that makes the story work so well. last time i checked, this comment section was OVERWHELMINGLY positive about ML’s personality, which shocked me. and i get stories are made for entertainment and not everything is going to have social commentary or give a social view of how fucked up this is from the story setting itself, but it’s like if ure gonna use a social setting like the omegaverse which replicates aspects of real-life’s patriarchal and sexist societies, i think it’s only fair for ppl to therefore use real-life social hierarchies and views to judge them, esp if youre gonna give us an alpha male who treats the other gender like an objectified toy who needs their protection and doesnt know better. i also feel like this story is gonna piss me off bc of how it seems like it’s gonna purely romanticize ML’s personality, with the only person who has the whole story of his deeds being the MC, which will probably lead to every other character supporting the ML and viewing MC’s attitude as unreasonable or even assholey. now ik im judging it early on and i have no way to say if that’s how the story will go, but going off of how the scenes are set up and how MC gives in to ML even after learning what the hell he’s done, it just feels like it’s doomed. . It’s one thing if the author clearly depicts these scenes with more discomfort and turmoil, but it doesnt, which tells me that a psychological narrative or character reflection with ACTUAL consequences or condemnation of the ML was never an intended goal (and ik some ppl will say MC’s obvious anger and hatred is showing those things, but as an author/artist if you really wanted to display psychological unrest, c’mon you’d KNOW and not assume if they really wanted that narrative. like good writing and storytelling are depicted through these mediums, so either they’re a shit storyteller or they aren’t aiming for that message, and if this is an author with many other works as you’ve said, then they know whay theyre doing lol). sorry for the long rant, i just got a lot of thoughts about this manhwa
bro sorry my response was so long, that it’s actually stunningly annoying i iust had a ton of thoughts