my god i feel like crying i started this in school and now im in university and ive seen this grow up every year, slowly, beautifully and i feel so emotional aaaaa this will always be in my heart, among the things i love. i thank the author, the artist, the translators, the uploaders and everyone who have made this story possible and given me access, i will always, always come back to this, and will always remember King's Maker, with love <3
idk but i really liked this one.... maybe there was a deliberate emptiness throughout the narrative (since a major part of it was revolving around keito), and it was only at the end, in that one momentous scene where keito finally sees and understands the world of others, especially chika's that the emptiness starts to ebb away. i feel like the romance too wasn't deliberately developed throughout only for this moment alone. it is only when he learns to feel, to feel all the overwhelming colours of the world that he could truly understand his love. and in turn, let himself be loved by chika. and yumichika too, his whole quest of making that movie, started because of yahiro. but the moment the story changed from being one written by yahiro to the one written for keito is when i think his feelings trembled. and again, that final moment is when they both realised the hope of a love, and acknowledged it together. i found it a really really nice read, will probably reread again later!
and it's just so sad in general how most of yall are going on about it has no rape, so it's a good story. like....i agree that's one of the — if not the most important — factor i look for in a story, but it is not the only one. and it's just sad how most of the popular yaoi/bl media follows the same disgusting rape to love trope, and when we find one that doesn't have it we immediately think of it as a good one. i do believe that a good story must be nontoxic, and i hate rape in stories (unless it is not fetishized and maybe used in a realistic setting of trauma and coping), but just the absence of it doesn't make it a good story. it conforms to other stereotypical bl ideas, and overall it was a very bland and dull progression, with the least emotional engagement and just sex. i mean, it's a fast paced read and there are stories like these, pwp, non toxic, and an okay read. but i just find it so confounding how almost everyone is defending it like it's a phenomenal story. anyway, it's just my personal opinion :")










while the ending was okay, there's smth that bothers me.... idk why but I've seen this in a lot of stories how the seme doesn't bother preparing the uke when they're not in a relationship like???? i cannot imagine that monster dick going on that little ass hole WITHOUT prep like??? when eunho was saying it hurt it hurt me so much like imagine just shoving that thing without prep my god it might even tear his hole... and AFTER the seme suddenly realised he liked eunho, he started preparing him...? EVEN eating his ass out??? it's just so sad :"( well at least it turned out well for them :")