
(last chap read 52) is our puppy dog ML the demon-thing our MC killed before transmigrating as Renée? the one that was like “blah blah i’ll make it so you NEVER LEAVE the tower blah blah”
Even before the dragon was like “yeah he’s a bug in the system” Cedins whole spiel about never being fulfilled even after gettin money/honor UNTIL MC appeared.. makes me think he is. he wasn’t just “looking for someone strong” he was looking for the *only* human who defeated him in his past life, yeah?
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i hope shuuya kills him. but honestly- shuuya dying would hurt him more, right? let him think shuuya loves him only to slip out n die when he least expects it. fuck this vampire guy. “weh weh weh im immortal i crave life” bitch go get a farm. raise some cows.
ALSO, whats up w vampire stories n havin their “meals” be slaves? if vampires were real i guarantee you there would be millions of people who would fuckin LOVE to be fed upon. no need to enslave and torture them. there’s plenty of fuckin FREAKS who would love to die from blood loss after being eaten by a vampire.

That's why the humans become slaves tho?
Granted, the younger ones are normally forced to do it by their radical, vampire worshiping parents, but majority of the time they are fanatics themselves lol you see it actively happen in this series where people willingly give themselves up to Azure.
Vampires are apex predators, tho, so sometimes they go for the more reluctant prey to satiate their desire to hunt. It's like how cats can sustain themselves on cat food but still desire to hunt small animals and insects. It's in their DNA lol

they treat their “meals” like shit. even humans have developed more humane ways of handling livestock, why can’t vampires do the same?
well fed, healthy, and enriched livestock generally have better meat. i assume the same is for people. it’s dumb that these vampires give their meals pisspoor living conditions because that definitely impacts their blood quality. fear, anxiety, stress, etc all impact quality of life. cortisol levels, dopamine levels, serotonin levels, etc are in the bloodstream and i assume vampires can taste it. keeping their “livestock” healthy and happy would probably make vampires less “big bad evil” and more “yeah they’re just weirdos, but they treat their meals good”

But they are treated well lol
Azure rewards the people who give their lives to him and we see that during the one scene he gouges that one servant during an event. They are fed well and given material wealth for their servitude.
I also don't think that if you've got your mind set against being fed to a vampire that any sort of "comfortable living" will change your mind lol like, there's a reason why most of them are either complete fanatics or nearly comatose. You don't have to brainwash and manipulate a willing victim. For those less willing you have to treat them differently.
And tbh as much as you love to try and make it seem like there are millions of people willing to give their lives to a vampire, I don't think this is true lol humans value their own lives more than others. It's very rare that you come across someone who would genuinely give their life for another 'cause the fear of death looms over us. It's human nature to be afraid of the unknown.
Therefore, it isn't so far-fetched that vampires would have to resort to creating human livestock in order to eat properly. I think you're trying too hard to rationalize this shit when at the end of the day vampires are cruel, twisted individuals who have been rotted away from centuries of living. It's *why* a lot of series emphasize not wanting to turn their human lovers into the same thing they are. Immortal beings know how fucked it can be to be forced to live with a curse and no means of salvation.
Think outside the box a lil bit instead of trying to humanize something that hasn't been human in over a thousand years.

seme is trash, the twins are trash, semes dad is trash.. all we’re missing is some secondary seme who tries to get in the way. *blergh*
the seme “excusing” the twins’ behavior and not defending his CRUSH(?!) made my blood boil. HE KNEW THEY WERE SAYIN THAT SHIT N HE DID WHAT?? NOTHIN! “i love you” NAH FUCK YOU, you manipulative piece of SHIT! chipping away at the ukes self esteem in such a formative time (puberty) would of course have lasting effects on his adult life. i wish the uke would’ve punched the fuck outta the twins and seme (again), and find another partner.
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like- they aren’t human. they have a completely different worldview and an entirely different set of ethics and morals. what is evil, to a dragon? they eat humans, humans kill and utilize their parts to craft better weapons/armor. one is a food, the other a resource. they both kinda need each other. humans lack any real *specific* predators, but this type storyline gives us one (albeit fanciful). (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ

i rarely see authors add spines to feline-hybrids (if you know what i mean), but knotting is everywhere. i’m not sayin “oh damn i wanna see some spine action” but it’s just weird that there’s like a 70/30 shot of a canine hybrid being able to knot in a story in their human form, but the tiger/leopard/house-cat characters? damn near zero, and when there ARE spines, 9/10 they’re in their animal form.
an odd double standard?
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ya know it’s not often that we have a series where ALL the men are trash. unfortunately our girl peri is gonna have to deal with them for the foreseeable future. her fam begging for forgiveness. :) fuuuuuuck you.
forgive deez nuts across your punkass face. whatever bridge her family wanted to build has long since burnt to the ground. “their” peri died in that tower, that bond- that love- withered away FOR LIKE 6 YEARS. i do not believe in redemption for a biological family like that. go open an orphanage, do some good for the community. don’t adopt some magical fucking orphan and hope ur daughter (WHOM YOU OUSTED FROM THE HOUSE TO DIE) would magically appear n marry him. GODDDD THE NERVE OF THESE MEN

I was so down for the intersex uke, but the dragon seme is a cunt. it could’ve been written w a cute lil family.. BUT NO. we get a straight uke who was coerced into sex, and is basically roofied at anytime based on the dragons whims. that’s hell. no love blooms from that. I wish the womb-thing was based on love/trust and not cum and dragon-roofies. #-.-)
no. lol. maybe i just expect more actual PLOT from BL nowadays. the plot was very jumbled, I wasn’t ever really sure of what was happening.
its also really weird to see someone who was clearly not exposed to/knowledgeable about american culture and didn’t really do much research about the black experience/culture and gangs/crime in america write a story about an american prison. like- c’mon prisons are kinda what america is known for (the US has 22% of the worlds prison population, even though the US only accounts for like- 4% of the worlds population).
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the rampant rape and sexual assault is also.. a choice. yeah prisons have rates of sexual assault n shit, but it felt like every other sex scene was noncon. most people in prison are working. like *actually* working (manufacturing, farming, maintenance), but these guys deadass just sat around n fucked each other. THEY EVEN HAD A PORNO THEATER?? IN PRISON??