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I really don’t understand what the author has the Ulysses and Randolph side story. You know it’s fan service at its peak for its straight cis female readers when Ulysses’s harem of men who we learned he acquired out of sport through your standard manipulation and underhanded methods that when a stereotypical masculine presenting dominate characters displays readers call foul but when a femme character does it- further playing into the very real stereotypes of “dangerous predatory” gay language surrounding men unable to hide their more obvious sexual inclination- it’s seen as a great achievement to be celebrated. Worse Ulysses has actually physically and sexually assaulted Randolph an act that got a previous shitty blond king assassinated for his harem of sexually dominated playthings subjected to regularly. It’s ironic that Ulysses is a direct juxtaposition to the Demonic king but he gets his own side story and is celebrated for it. It’s gross but ultimately is so expected why am I even bothering myself, but I do want to point out to readers that this subplot is just as problematic as the main story we so angrily sided with in hope for a predator’s demise, but here is celebrated.