wooyeon is such a bastard but he’s such a well written psychopath. comparing the way he was at the start vs now and how he’s starting to develop some level of emotion bc of inseob… it reminds me of hannibal in a way. like you can’t even call what he’s feeling love but it’s something where before there was nothing and he’s sooooo awful to inseob it feels like watching a car crash i need the next chapter neowww
Yes. Honestly feels like one of the most accurate depictions of antisocial personality disorder I've read, in BL at least. It makes for a ML that is obviously hard to empathize with, but that's the point. I was half expecting an ending panel with ML's face back to ice cold-- and all this show of emotion was just a manipulation to trick mc into wanting to stay.
i agree! i definitely feel that a lot of BLs play up the psychopath ML and subsequently use a lot of sexual violence and abuse as plot points where it feels like it’s more for just shock factor/trauma p**n. i think it’s much rarer to come across one like wooyeon whose motivations are so blatantly expressed to the reader, and like you said, it makes him much harder to empathise with when we know how manipulative he can be (i wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right that he’s manipulating him rn!) vs other MLs. and i think this author actually does a great job of utilising his sociopathic tendencies to explain his actions and how everything he does is completely self serving
wooyeon is such a bastard but he’s such a well written psychopath. comparing the way he was at the start vs now and how he’s starting to develop some level of emotion bc of inseob… it reminds me of hannibal in a way. like you can’t even call what he’s feeling love but it’s something where before there was nothing and he’s sooooo awful to inseob it feels like watching a car crash i need the next chapter neowww
Yes. Honestly feels like one of the most accurate depictions of antisocial personality disorder I've read, in BL at least. It makes for a ML that is obviously hard to empathize with, but that's the point. I was half expecting an ending panel with ML's face back to ice cold-- and all this show of emotion was just a manipulation to trick mc into wanting to stay.
i agree! i definitely feel that a lot of BLs play up the psychopath ML and subsequently use a lot of sexual violence and abuse as plot points where it feels like it’s more for just shock factor/trauma p**n. i think it’s much rarer to come across one like wooyeon whose motivations are so blatantly expressed to the reader, and like you said, it makes him much harder to empathise with when we know how manipulative he can be (i wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right that he’s manipulating him rn!) vs other MLs. and i think this author actually does a great job of utilising his sociopathic tendencies to explain his actions and how everything he does is completely self serving