
To me, a story is considered BL if at least one B is in love with/attracted to another B.
But in this case, MC is attracted to the idea of being eaten/killed by the ML, and is not particularly attracted to the ML himself??? idk man
I think he is attracted to him in the way many masochists are attracted to sadistic people. Like he finds his sadistic actions and personality arousing so he is attracted to him because of this. If he is attracted to a man then he is gay, even if the gender isn’t the main thing attracting him. But personally I think his attraction to him isn’t entirely romantic or sexual but something else too.
Today at class we learned abt freud's psychoanalytic theory and I remembered abt the childhood friend love trope. I used to hate that trope because literally the most recent interaction this paring was when they were children. But now it now makes sense why lots of mangas have a childhood friend love interest even if the ML/FL haven't seen them ever since they were kids. Theres sum psychological shiz going on.
im psych major student here :)) we all dont like Freud in some kinda way lolol and he had this theory about i**est where he said men tend to find similarities between their mother and the women they love and want to abcxyz with (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ like ew no ヽ(`Д´)ノ I suggest books about attachment styles if you are interested in relationship dynamics
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