Majority of these whiners under every manhwa "Verse please" "Disappointed, verse please" "Wanna see XYZ bottom once" are just people who aren't satisfied with the characteristics of the top/bottom the author drew/wrote and just wanna see them in reverse position atleast for once to satiate their fantasy. (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
I need some BLs where ML is puppy seme type and MC is aloof. But after they really reach a comfortable stage their role changes. Like now Uke is the one acting like a puppy and needy, more than ML. Idk if I'm making sense, basically role reversal
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/one_room_ta/
bro becomes an actual menace
When they start showing how a kind MC suddenly became cold and cruel because their family member passed away... And ML still chases him and they do get together after a long time... Idk. I just don't like it. Staying cold and distant is fine. But you can't just torture someone because of what you're going through. I don't find this cute at all.
I have no idea how to give the plot. I remember bits and pieces. Setting is in highschool. MC is a girl and she has a curse. Infact her whole family line is cursed and her each cousin is with some type of curse. One of her family member had a curse, that of she smiles towards you you die like literally die. I also remember she had a guy friend who was gay and he got cursed and was able to confess to his crush. But later the crush got injured and got amnesia. It sounds tragic but it was a dark comedy. I used to read it years ago and stopped cause noone was translating it. Also it is not Korean. It's either Vietnamese/philipino/malay webtoon.
MC/ML sentences are hurting my brain. Not every story is written from Uke's side. Why would you even set the two party like that?
i'm guilty of this, but it really depends (in my case) as for which trope i'm talking about. Many time you really just want to talk about the proagonist, and saying "the uke is really op" may come as weird, whereas "the mc is really op" fits it better, or when characters are versatile.
If the sentence fits better to describe exactly the "uke" or "seme" personality, i much rather prefer using "top" and "bottom", for pretty much personal preference. I guess it all depends on context !
It's not only for BL. In Isekai stories also, although there majority are written from Female side only. I also miss ML FL era. ( ・﹏・)Now MC and ML is used there too. I get so confused. I check review before reading a story. These days I don't get any context as How would I know who the MC is even.
I don't know if it's just me, but uke/seme sound too 2000 or less, with the quite particular yaois that go with it
in terms of bl, i thought the purpose of mc/ml was to eliminate the need to address the characters by their positions (top.bottom/seme.uke) but imo since it has become so common that the story is in the bottom's perspective anyway, mc is just sorta synonymous with being the bottom now. i notice a lot of people refer to the mc when addressing the character that bottoms. so all in all, ig it's starting to go back to addressing characters by their positioning, just packaged in a different box lol.
because as you mentioned, not all stories are written in the bottom's perspective, so in this case, the top would be the mc, right?, but im sure the majority will automatically assume it is the bottom.
I personally just use top/bottom if it's smut related and describe their features or their names, when it comes to fluff stuff and no position is clear. When it comes to BL, this mc/ml stuff feels like an attempt to cover up the obvious ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭