lucky ducky's Favorite

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Eudith or Judith is related to the previous King. So she's a royal. The previous king have a sister whom he loves so dearly to the point that it suffocating her. Her sister (Judith's Grandmother) fell inlove with a commoner. The previous king opposed their relationship due to the differences of their status, so her sister ran away and married that commoner (Another Spoiler: She fell inlove because of his looks). So yeah, Judith came from a royal lineage, and Sophie (Duchess Winterwald) probably knew that she's from a royal lineage because of her eyes. Having a purple or light purple eyes are rare and only the royal lineage has it.

Just leave a comment if you want another major spoiler.

I've posted before about this without spoiling, and it physically HURTs me that people are giving out wrong spoilers based off some google translate thing they didn't even bother to cross reference. A lot of spoilers are out of context of the whole story and omits SO MUCH so i'm going to explain it as best as I can, referring to my previous post. These spoilers are coming from the novel version btw, and whether or not JAXX choses to adapt them will be another issue altogether. But anyway, here goes.

There are several major factors and characters I shall address.

1. Ryan (Blonde dude from earlier in the series)
He has a much bigger role in the books than in the webtoon thus far, but idk how big his role might be ahead because he has a major role to play in the latter half of the series. As far as I know, he is NOT a love rival or anything of that sort. There has never been and isn't going to be anything romantic between him and McQueen at all. He harbours certain hatred McQueen for reasons, blames him for a lot of his ongoing issues and he has a lot . He has a son, with a prostitute and he also seems to have drug issues and is generally pretty messed up. In the novels, he and Ed live together, and McQueen and Ed have meals with Ryan and his son Cecil, even helping to take care of his son because Ryan isn't really the best parent.

He is actually the main reason why Ed and McQueen break up. But more on that in a bit.

2. Ed and McQueen
In the books McQueen is seen doing a lot more porn that in the webtoon to begin with; here he seems like he does more of the background work like directing etc. But in any case, novel McQueen and Ed BOTH continue to film porn with other partners, although Ed only ever bottoms for McQueen after. In the novels, there's no confession at the train station. They get together, but there's no actual verbalisation of the "I love you"s till much later. So although they're making porn with other people, they're also not exclusively together in the books at this point. I believe McQueen initially hoped to kind of do couples porn with Ed, but at some point after they do both stop doing porn anyway. But in any case, obviously the webtoon should differ from that.

Third parties are never a major major issue in the books for our main pair. They do love each other, although it takes a much longer time for McQueen to verbalise it there. Yes there is a 'love triangle' of sorts with Chang, but the feelings of the main pair never wavers for each other, although circumstances in the later parts do drive a wedge between them. The McEd pairing is actually quite fluffy in the books as well.

A major plot point in the novels. revolves around McQueen's writing of the movie's script. A journalist basically finds out that McQueen is the director of that movie, and it makes the news. Its huge news, and it goes on broadcast that a pornstar directed a religious movie. The website is being overloaded by views – and the site Ed's audition film with McQueen (for a DVD) is on there. The next day he goes to work, its obvious that all his coworkers know about his doing porn. Ed is asked to resign from his job as a security officer due to security reasons.

Upset, Ed then tries to contact McQueen, but he is unable to call through to him. This is because McQueen was being hounded by journalists at the time and he explains it to Ed. They then talk about plans for the future, like going on a cruise and stuff. Ed gets a little drunk, and confesses he watched a porno with McQueen and Ryan. More context on this is that Ryan and McQueen did something like a 'non-consensual' kink play? It's not actually non-consensual and its not rape for sure, but Ryan apparently has a history of sexual assault prior and told Ed before that McQueen exploits vulnerable men for money i.e. something like he basically did the shoot because he was in a vulnerable position (drug issues money issues etc.). Ed watched the porno, and then tell McQueen he agrees with Ryan that what happened was rape. McQueen is livid to think that Ed could think something like that of him, and says something along the lines of "I can't believe I was falling in love with you". They break up and don't contact each other for weeks after that.

Ed gets a job at the airport, but its not very stable. Prior to this, Ed had already stopped doing porn was also working for Chang doing some security, but he stopped that too after the porn reveal and hasn't contacted Chang since.

Lancer contacts Ed who is now in high demand because of the porn reveal, and asks him to do escort/prostitution work with him (He gave him an Escort card way earlier in the novels I think as an invitation already). Ed wonders if McQueen will find out, and then decides that he "doesn't care" and so on New Years Day, Lancer tells him that he's got this client and that Lancer raised the price on him (because of his high demand); Ed doesn't know who he is, but he turns up anyway. The client is Chang.


3. Chang
Chang hasn't met Ed since the porn reveal, New Years Day is the first time they're meeting after the reveal. Chang doesn't believe at first that Ed actually came, and Ed tries to walk away after realising its Chang. But Chang physically grabs him and tells him he paid for him, showing him the escort card he took from Ed's apartment (given by Lancer earlier). Chang offers to make Ed's debt disappear – if he stays beside him for a year. Ed considers and then refuses thinking this guy is the one who even ruined his life by saddling him with this debt in the first place. They argue, Chang makes jibes about Ed doing sex work and Ed, fed up, asks him if he wants to be fucked. Ed pulls down Chang's zipper to prove a point.

Then Chang pushes Ed onto the bed and starts getting physical with him. At several points, Ed says it hurts, and that he wants it to stop. Chang mocks him, bites him, and continues anyway. Ed tries to punch him to get away from him, saying he's changed his mind and telling him to stop. He grabs his clothes and tries to escape several times but fails. Chang r*pes Ed. In this interim, Ed realises that Chang has had feelings for him all along, and that he's just been trying to ignore it the whole time; after the deed is done, he asks Chang if he likes him – and Chang doesn't confirm or deny it. Ed tells him it doesn't matter because Chang is dead to him anyway, and tells Chang he wants to ruin him, like Chang ruined Ed.

He walks out (Chang is still there), to run into McQueen – Ed wondered previously if McQueen was going to find out about him doing escort/prostitution work so he clearly did – McQueen tells Ed he didn't want to break up with Ed in the first place, tells him that he loves him, and that he wants to get back together. Ed wants to say yes, but he just had sex with (was raped by) Chang, so he doesn't respond, just leaves both men without saying anything. McQueen and Chang fight, and Ed sees McQueen again the next day; McQueen tells him he doesn't care about the whole Chang thing, and they get back together.

McQueen tells him he's quitting porn for him and selling the company, and tells Ed to check his bank account – $500,000, which is the amount he owes Chang. Chang actually confesses his feelings to Ed after this, and Ed tells him he doesn't care and to check his bank account, that's his answer. Essentially he pays off his debt, and from there he's saying that they no longer will have any ties to each other.

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So essentially I wanted to clarify a few things.

Ed didn't lose his bodyguard job because of McQueen but the journalist actually, and McQueen didn't abandon him because of the reveal at all. He had a huge debt to Chang – but McQueen didn't pay it off probably because $500,000 is kind of not pocket change?? He sold his company and paid off Ed's debts. McQueen is not the cause of Ed doing escorting; that's Ed's choice. Their break up was NOT caused by Ed not wanting to do an adult movie with McQueen.

McQueen and Ed's relationship is complex, and ultimately human. They make mistakes and there's miscommunication and there's arguments of course, but there's also reasons why certain things unfold the way they do. The novels are way longer than the webtoons, and lots of things have been and will be taken out. So bear in mind that too.

I hope this helped in some way and if anyone else is going to bullshit about the 'spoiler' without knowing what they're talking about again i'm going to hit the roof.

Please help. I'm looking for a oneshot manga about a Magicians apprentice who thinks his master is getting married or looking for a wife. So the little apprentice asks his famous sister to marry. Stuff happend we found out the marriage set up was for the apprentice also the apprentice turns out to be a girl. The magician passes her of as a boy. I think they got married once she grew up. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Wow this was amazing!
It has its flaws as the author recognice, but still is really well writen.
From the star i was expecting miki to die (well the tragedy tag give us the hint) and i love the idea (not bc i hated miki, in fact i love his character, but bc i love the drama if not why would i be reading this? lol) but at the very end i was wishing for his survival, i really do. guess i was ok with both hipotesis.
The final chapter was simply mindblowing, in a magnificent way.
I want to say that english is not my frist language and it became to long to correct in google translaor so excuse my mistakes i just wanted to coment all this bc i love it.

If we analaize the whole manga, is tatsumi-san who tell the story and that's why we read it based on his opinion and thougs, but at the same time we have his conversations with miki where we got as caugh in the trap as the protagonist (the seme)
From the very begining tatsumi express that he doesn't believe miki' stories, or he half believe them. When he found miki with his supposed sister, the first think he taugh was that they were holding hands, and that he was going out with her. (until this time he and we didn't knew that everything he tought was the real truth) When he tied miki and ask him about her and if he was in love with her and if that was the reason why the yakuza beat him up (again he was unconsiusly telling the truth), miki didn't say anything and made a sad face (we can assume he's thinking that he's just the lover with whom she cheat her husband and nothing else for her despite he loving her)
Tatsumi think that whatever that woman is, miki still cares for her, and that they have a deeper relationship than the one he has with him.

After that miki invent the whole story about their past which he himself calls a poor tv drama. (maybe he got the ideas for his lies from some)
The first time i read the penultime chapter i though when miki stop walking in that store to see a couple, that he wanted something like that (since they were talking how homo they look to go there i though he wants a romance like that) but after reading it calmly i notice that that wasn't the reason why he saw them with a sad face, but because they were similar to the woman and the yakuza, and that's why he feels bad seeing them all lovely dovely, when he was again just the lover with whom she cheat her husband.
In the same chapter tatsumi remember the last night and his conversation with miki, when he ask "why do your sister married a guy like him" again we see miki's sad face and didn't say anything.
Later miki vent out saying angrily this "maybe she could have gotten away if she had everything she had into trying" assuming he loves her, we can say he propse her to run away with his cheater and abusive husband but she didn't want it at all bc for her " his heart is in the right place" and that's why he think she's a stupid woman for continuing with that relationship.
But then tatsumi kiss him and his horizon expand, thinking that maybe he should give up on her and run away with tatsumi.
Finally the last chapter clears everything the first hint we had that the miki that appear outside jail is not the real one is his clothes and his nails, he looks exactly the same as the day he was stabbed three years before. lol xD
Then we have miki's sister and her son, not only he looks exactly like miki, but tatsumi also made us notice that this baby was seed at the right moment, born ten months after miki's death, so we can say that the night miki was waiting outside of his appartament was when he got her pregnant, her husband found out that they were together and torn off miki's nails. And also when tatsumi refers to her as miki's sister, she didnt say anything and looks exaclty like miki when tatsumi asked about her. Hence, she knew that that was the lie he tell to tatsumi. Lastly the millon ask, "who is the father?", ofc miki didn't knew she got pregnant (asuming she got it that night) and since he was a product of his imaginantion that miki would knew the same things as tatsumi. then he remember miki's final words that everything he say were lies, his past, his relationship with that woman and maybe, his desire to run away with tatsumi too. :(
so did he ask him to kill that man to run away with the woman? we never know...

what can i say about ryoma? is just as fake miki said, he had his life messed up because of tatsumi. (poor guy honestly) and after that he just want to use him again to kill the yakuza?
now, has tatsumi the right to kill him? i mean his wife was cheating on him so the yakuza has the right to beat miki, but also he cheat and abused his wife so he deserved to be in prison. ryoma went psycho just a moment and got to prision, but isn't tatsumi as insane as all of them? i mean he's planning and waiting for a murder, and he's deluding himself with a dead person. xD
What can i say this was fantastic. the only bad thing is that last chapter supposed to be comic that didn't fit here at all. (the author's words not mine but i totally agree)