im so tired of authors creating characters that obviously exist to be hated and drive sympathy for the mc. like that assistant has absolutely no depth as a charcater, hes just the typical ,feminine-like (often referred as twink) gay man whose only reason of existence is to mess up the main relationship written into bl stories. the indirect misogyny in bl stories is so funny to see considering the author and majority of readers are women. and u cant even escape from this archetype in shoujo where we have shallow,lazy,misogynist charcaters like rashta. people are not that simple/easily defined, im not saying assholes dont exist in real life but if ur going to write one at least make it realistic.
your complaint was about his character not having depth if you want his character to have depth go tell the author to give him a backstory or some shit thats my point. a couple of his thought bubbles being shown isnt the same as portraying his actual perspective. things as simple thought bubbles are almost never written with depth in comics idk what your ass expected
damn well maybe you are but idiotic actions don't make you a complete idiot i just think certain people need to consider the fact that just because you think something is "bad" (no one called it bad but replace that w like any other adjective) doesn't make it true everyone has different standards and perspectives
the assumption that a character was created to be hated (author might not view it that way), the claim the certain characters lack depth which is subjective since not everyone views "depth" the same way, the assumption that the majority of the readers are women which COULD be true, but there is literally no proof to this whatsoever and a lot of male bl readers on social platforms have discussed that they don't feel comfortable sharing that they read bl due to women fetishizing them for it, the idea that the authors portrayal of the "twink" character is unrealistic is extremely subjective as if they've met every person in the world and an "asshole" character thats portrayed the way he is can't possibly exist in real life etc
i wouldn’t say his character was meant to be made well though, however if that’s how you think of it, then whatever. i genuinely don’t understand your point still how are you taking it so factual? isn’t an opinion meant to be a statement on what you perceive as? “ rice taste better than salad “, it isn’t a factual statement, it’s clearly an opinion based response, which can go for what they said too.
the only point you’ve made so far that i can understand is the one about women reading bl, but other than that, im lost. the op commented this from their personal perspective on how realism can define a character, it can absolutely go both ways. there is no right answer to it, but there’s no wrong one either. do people like that exist? maybe. maybe not. it’s not like we can look into every person in the world and make a response — ( agreeing ) there is no evidence on either side so for them to make a factual statement would be impossible, it’s very clearly opinionated..a different word choice might’ve shown that, but i think you’re looking way too deep into it twin
to be able to make you feel so much in just 20 chapters…this author is absolutely insane in the way the write and in the way they draw. its all so beautiful