This comic is a great example of why it’s so excruciatingly difficult to find a decent, compelling romance comic. The women aren’t written realistically and are fully driven by almost nothing other than their affections. Their behavior fluctuates with the situation in ways that don’t make sense. Sure, mc starts out trying to prevent her family’s destruction, but she puts figuring that issue on the back burner real quick.
Blue hair challenges all social conventions by openly pursuing swordsmanship as a woman despite taking shit from everyone around her for it….to impress her fiancée/crush. It’s not about her personal desires, goals, or satisfaction, just her desire to be with a guy. That’s her entire character despite her being depicted on the surface as a powerful, confident woman in control of her life. It’s a facade. Her character is basically a paper tiger, but in the end there’s really nothing of substance.
Even if she didn’t have memories of the future, mc knows that the prince and his friends mercilessly bullied her brother for shits and giggles, but that doesn’t stop her from starting to catch feelings and becoming “friends”. Even if she realized that there was manipulation behind the scenes later on, the prince executed her entire family in the future, but she just gets over it with no trauma reactions. She doesn’t even struggle with it a little bit mentally, just moves right on.
Silver hair blackmails her and gets really touchy, but she just blushes, makes an angry comment, and does nothing about it. She acts really “cute” and innocent with her interactions with the guys and their inappropriate behavior (especially silver hair since he knows her gender), but never rejects or confronts them as someone with that background/personality in that society would.
It just feels like a common trope to do a “have your cake and eat it too” take on the female lead who is extremely sheltered, innocent, and (romantically) conservative, but also somehow accepts or doesn’t rebuff obviously inappropriate or rude advances from attractive male characters despite the response not matching their background, the social norms of their society, or their personality .
Whatever the fl’s normal personality or background, they suddenly turn into a blushing doormat to the ml no matter how toxic or inappropriate his behavior is. But it’s fine because he’s so hot she just can’t stay mad at him. They aren’t likable or enjoyable to read because they’re not people. Mc is just a cluster of shallow responses and objective goals, but there is no consistency.
Holy cow a whole thesis but you're so real for allat
Thanks ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I think Dan was being true to character in choosing to have the baby and in trying to get rid of it when he believed it would be fatal. He is the absolute ruler of the demonic cult. Nobody questions him and he doesn’t ask for opinions or permission before making decisions. He is both possessive and insecure in his relationship with Hwan. He considered making a child the ultimate tie, ensuring that Hwan would never leave (which considering his character, would be an accurate assumption). It was less about the child than a mechanism to permanently connect them. That’s why when he realized that Hwan could/would die from it, that choosing to abort was so easy for him. He’s still not thinking like a partner, but acting out of his own fear of Hwan abandoning him either by choice or death. His fear clouds his judgement and prevents him from considering Hwan’s perspective or trying to find another way.
Yooo top tier analysis
Thanks I think a lot of people are focusing on the lack of communication and pregnancy, but are missing the subtlety in the character interactions. All the characters are very complex and behave in understandable ways according to their background, personality, and motives. It’s not like a lot of stories that just throw miscommunication or lies into the mix just to whip up drama
Accurate analysis, I think very similarly.
thanks for your analysis! i actually forgot why he was initially so fixated on impregnating hwan but quick to kill their child. he just saw the baby as a tool to tie him down. well said!(๑•ㅂ•)و✧ although it was selfish of him to attempt to abort the baby without his permission, i admire how he never saw hwan as a baby maker & didn't even think twice to abandon his one and only chance to have a child. toxic but loyal with none of the preserve the bloodline bs. weirdly comforting ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Yes, this is definitely true! Dan is used to being in a position of power, both in general and with Hwan, which is not a mentality conducive to a healthy partnership. If you follow the roots, most of Dan’s actions towards Hwan can be traced back to a fear of loss or rejection. All of these problems could have been avoided if he had made decisions more rationally, or was more open and respectful with Hwan. He broke Hwan’s trust both by knowingly impregnating him without warning, and unilaterally deciding to abort the child after Hwan had accepted and begun to look forward to their birth. They both feel betrayed, but Dan was in the wrong. As a result, Dan leans towards possessiveness while Hwan leans towards disappointment. Dan created a desperate situation without due caution or research, and now their opinions are in conflict. If he hadn’t been so deceptive, Hwan wouldn’t have been driven to such extremes which are now putting him at great strain and risk, collapsing all of his pillars of support. Most of the safer and less dangerous options have been blocked off by Dan’s actions.
I love just reading the comments with mpre people and u adding on to this cuz their's always more insight that reminds me about the nature of Dan, really amazing!
And yet another irritating situation that would have been avoided if Hongyeon had let Taejon do his thing. He’s so jealous and controlling that he counseled Mun instead, but now there’s a moronic misunderstanding with Hayun. If he hadn’t stopped Taejon so many times, Mun and Hayun would probably have already been dating by this point
So the first introduction of what seems to be the main couple in the very first chapter is SA? No thanks, this is going to be an irredeemable dumpster fire no matter what the art looks like
Why can’t we have straight smut with attractive guys? I don’t understand why there are so many comics that have cardboard personality, marginal af, zero accomplishment, not even physically attractive dude(s) easily banging tons of skilled, successful, and supermodel level looking women who somehow can’t get enough. Even if they both look average, that would at least be reasonable. I have never encountered a comic where a hot accomplished guy sleeps with an unattractive woman with no positive qualities. Obviously this is written for similarly marginal/unattractive men, but it just sucks that I can never find any straight smut that has realistic character dynamics, and especially women who aren’t just mindlessly horny for the most mediocre man alive
Wow the Duke is still such a pretentious prick even as he’s “accepting responsibility”. Their child was sick from birth because he was born in filthy and freezing conditions after he kicked her out and she had to hide from him and his enemies. He was so cruel and controlling that she has to take desperate and dangerous measures to escape him. Now her child is dead because he was hiding away to escape on a ship while Rowena distracted Killian long enough for them to escape before (or maybe never) escaping the Duke to join them. She’s sobbing at the loss of her only child and he’s “glad that she’s no longer blaming herself”. Yeah, everything that went wrong in her life, after that one scam, was all him, and the only reason she didn’t reach that conclusion years earlier is because she was young and naive, and he played her like a fiddle. Even now, that shift of blame is only benefitting him. She’s still in despair and agony, but he gets to feel just a little less guilty over that one issue. He is still only concerned with himself. If he hadn’t held her there and used access to medication as leverage, they would have been able to leave earlier, together
So they’re just going to add some mummy wrapping and pretend that they just didn’t make a knockoff of Magneto?
Legis is honestly the hottest character I’ve encountered in any comic so far. I want 100 more episodes like this
HE LITERALLY HASNT TOLD HER THST HER KID IS ALIVE WTF!!!! She’s depressed and miserable to the point of attempting suicide, but he’s asking her about other men instead of letting her know that Damian is safe! I think he wants to keep her in a vulnerable/dependent state as long as he can to extend the amount of time he has to win her over. He is literally the fucking worst. It doesn’t matter how gentle or regretful he’s trying to be, even after everything he is still prioritizing his own desires over Rowena’s safety and free will, using Demian’s illness and his status to keep her trapped. He’s only apologetic on her terms, still forcing her into whatever he wants, just in a less aggressive way.