The art is super cute and the outfits are amazing, but I honestly feel like the main characters have NO PERSONALITY! It feels so generic to me like if I would most definitely forget about this manga in a few days I’m not hours. The communication amongst them is also very surface level and the speed that their relationship developed felt off… like how is YOUR MOTHER gonna tell you not to fall in love ( which felt like a MAJOR plot point), but immediately in the next chapter you’re in love with them with no thought back onto his mother’s words. Why didn’t they talk more about his trauma and why does the mc just cry instead of talking like an adult? Maybe that’s just me, since I HATE crybaby mc’s who couldn’t defend themselves against a bunny even if their life depended on it. On top of that, the mc’s outfits are cute and so is he, but he’s genuinely kinda bland and why does it look like the author is presenting him as a female lead?? If there wasn’t any scenes or if it wasn’t express by the other characters I wouldn’t have known! This manga really reminded me of a shoujo time period story like all we were missing was the antagonist - evil stepmother/stepsibling, inattentive father, a love interest or two, and random mob characters that are only there it create drama ( and they hit all the plot points of your basic time-period story(๑•ㅂ•)و✧)
And who does relationships work were they are??? Like is it common for there to be same-sex relationships? Or is that something that usually happens amongst commoners cause they mentioned that he was a guy, but never touched back on that topic, they were open about his reality, the mc’s mother didn’t comment on it and seemed to understand their relationship ( which makes me think she is more comfortable with same sex couples), and the one noble was hitting on him in public as well? I feel like I’m losing my mind omg, what is going on ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~???????
I don’t think a lot of that is important. I think their characters are fine and have enough personality to move the story and get invested in them.
As for Rupard’s mother, it was already explained to you. She was suffering from having unrequited love with his father and his father essentially toss her aside once his fancy of her wore away. Her desperation to have him love her again drove her to madness and she ended her life. That traumatizes Rupard from ever seeking romance because he associated with pain. The spectre of his mother is a manifestation of that fear. We don’t know if she actually said it or not but it doesn’t matter because it’s Rupard’s fears.
what counts as “being presented as a female lead” I wonder? the long hair? the clothes? the shoes with heels? the setting? I get that heteronormativity in yaoi is a thing in some cases but if we see every “non-stereotypically-male” male lead in yaoi as a possible female replacement, where does that get us? Idk
( Imma bought to go on a rant ) this comic really equals trauma to romance like it’s gonna be this cute lil love storyヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~ and that’s so annoying cause how can someone who’s been suffering from trauma for almost 10 yrs because of SA be cured because of love??? And this took not even a whole school yr to do, so a few months at least. If it was that easy for him to get over this, then he wouldn’t have been suffering from ptsd for so long(╯°Д °)╯╧╧! The author clearly doesn’t have a firm grip on mental health or how ptsd and SA effects their victims. I really feel like this should’ve been longer so we could see his mental health get better or he at least had a therapist or something to at least make it more believe that he was able to get over his trauma with more enter action with other men or somethin ヽ(`Д´)ノ
( got some more in me) and on top of that people in the comments are like “ he should’ve said something to the seme about his issue”, but why should he?? He really doesn’t have to and he didn’t want to obviously, since you can see he didn’t say anything about it until they had a deep connection to each other. He was dealing with his own problem, so just because the ml feels “ rejected” or “ ignored” because the mc wanted to protect himself doesn’t make him selfish. That’s just self care.
He wasted no time fucking that dog omg
Stop I choked on my saliva somehow