
it's disturbingly realistic, the depiction of abuse. It's not that the prick is upset that he's afraid of him, he's excited. His desire is all about power and manipulation, all fueled by his own fragile ego and inferiority complex. The fact that Sylvan is afraid of him just gave him more power to take his abuse further, yet giving himself as many excuses as needed for why what he's doing is not abuse.
Some people are so oblivious to their own vices that they turn like that the minute they learn they can get away with it. What makes it all the more tragic is how Lisbeth is so ignorant of it, only knowing his good side. Makes one sick, really. What I want to know is whether he basically is feeding him these meds that make him forget because he wanted him to forget his lover and it was all a ploy for him and his sister to take over. Ughhhhh soooo disturbinggg
I'm looking for an old horror-ish shoujo or josei that's about a girl who meets a vampire and it turns out she is his reincarnated vampire lover, and they have this vicious cycle romance where one of them always dies or something. I remember in the end it shows that their world (or ours?) is created by these children who create worlds and lives and one child made this story of these two souls intertwined but the child thinks it's beautiful how warped it is so it keeps their story tragic like that.
The title is something like at the end of the world or something of that sort
I think sometimes we don't realize that in most cultures we have pretty fucked up ideas about raising children, where they are easily seen as the potential to be "a person" instead of a person who is already "becoming", or as an extension of their parents, while the parent's word is often forcefully the equivalent of God's to them. How often do societies reward children for obeying versus learning to exercise their own critical judgement?
It's a rough relationship, yet honestly I can't say I don't know people who haven't been in Shima-kun's shoes. I am curious as to what happened between his mom being this control freak hellbent on making her child a successful star and the meek person she is now who looks terrified to do something to get on his bad side.