They're both messed up and the story doesn't try to make any efforts to act like one of these two is going to "redeem" or "save" the other or "drag" the other "down to their level". Nope! they're both just gloriously messed up in their own crazy ways and it works for them! its sweet and cute in their own messed up way lolz! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
LOVE the FL but I HAVE to say that of all the stories I've read so far where people comment abt the stalker or actually creeper nature of the main ML, THIS story is by far the WORST/BEST example I've seen in a while! its actually making me laugh and want to cry...and reminding me of 50 shades. its also making me flash to "beware of the villainess" manga on this site because WTF its actually SUUUUUPER CREEPY when you find someone is stalking you to the point that they are ACTIVELY getting into all your info, your home and your MF BEDROOM!!!! WHILE-YOU-SLEEP! .....Ahhhhhhhhhh!!! I'm just shocked to remember that if this were a story where he wasn't the ML and therefore could be drawn as some "over weight", "gross looking" or "old creepy dude" ALLLLLLL of his actions would be taking on a COMPLETELY different light! BUT IT SHOULDN'T TAKE THAT FOR ALL HIS ACTIONS TO BE SEEN AS JUST PLAIN WRONG!!! Because they aren't WRONG because his appearance is "icky" or "unpleasant". His actions are creepy and wrong BECAUSE THEY ARE CREEPY AND WRONG! WHAT IS WRONG W/STORIES!??!!? Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
DONT be confused. I don't like him for any of this. but its very meaningful as a character study and its neat that the author is trying to hammer home, at a break-neck pace mind you, the story you hear in a LOT of grown ups. They grew up in a fucked up setting and it took them years, literal DECADES, to start to grow past it and realize that where they came from didn't actually still shackle them anymore. Getting a do over reset is the Ultimate(!!!) wish fulfillment fantasy because it allows us the thought of what if I could've known then what I knew now and could've spent less time being chained to flawed reasoning or decisions that came about due to where/how I grew up?! To a point, the ML is the embodiment of this human wish. He grew up in a fucked up situation, made terrible decisions-not for the sack of doing so but because of flawed logic and feelings of helplessness against what he'd been raised to think of as immovable conditions, and lived to an old enough age to realize his flaws and wish with all his might that he could fix it and NOT have so many regrets. I don't have to like the terrible things he did to forgive him or to like this element in my story. Here's to hoping this doesn't get hacked up in some way. <3
I definitely liked it better that there wasn't some kind of mystical force controlling her Ex and it was just him slowly going mad. The depths the human mind can fall to and the madness of trying to understand that madness is far creepier an exp than just "oh no, actually its just some supernatural bad person who's mind f*cking them". aww.
(  ̄□ ̄ ) kinda disappointing.