Thanatos is the greek God of PEACEFUL death. (Yes, the comic version is the complete opposite of the deity’s role) He does not govern murder and he doesn’t approve of it. His role is to stay in the underworld and process the deaths of people who died of “natural causes”.
Hypnos is the Greek God of sleep. He may sound weak but he’s really strong. His power influences ALL and you cannot resist it. He can make anyone fall asleep at any time. This includes comas. He can put you to sleep indefinitely which is practically death.(by human standards)
Both Thanatos and Hypnos are twins and are born from the strongest deity the Greeks had: Nyx! Both of these twins have similar powers and reside in the underworld and work alongside Hades and Persephone although those two govern it.
Nyx is the Goddess of night but she may as well be the goddess of the universe since she came before all other gods and goddesses. She was the one of the first deities to be formed and is the daughter of God of Chaos. Even Zeus, the king of Gods and the God of lightning, is scared stiff of Nyx!
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They wanted us to like him but feel like something wasn’t quite right and now we get to see the “boys will be boys” side of him where he truly is a monster both literally and figuratively. He has a saviour complex and wants to be the one to save her so he creates fantasy worlds where others abuse her and he’s her one ticket out of hell and when he realises that won’t work, he shuts it down and restarts. The whole family thing too. It’s his obsession with her. Integrating himself into her life and her surroundings so she can’t escape. Some boys actually do this. I know I’ve experienced something similar where a boy in school would incite other kids to bully me just so he can swoop in and save me despite being the one who started it all. It’s sick and twisted but it’s a call out to the “boys will be boys” culture we have rn. When he’s all “grown up”, he’s mellowed out and he’s acting like it never happened and the times he’s forced to confront his horrible actions, he looks on them fondly because to him, it was him showing affection. When we see her POV, it’s him literally abusing her and making her feel unsafe even in her own home. The fact that he’s a shapeless monster means he could be ANYONE. Him going from classmate to childhood friend to brother and eventually husband kinda goes along with that narrative that it truly is an “every man until it’s no man” problem. Even the fact that his secretary and friend warned her but then still didn’t help her escape or the fact that the cat (a creature who is depicted as having eyes that can see the whole universe) refuses to look at her and bear witness to what she’s had to go through. Even her Stockholm syndrome and the way she laughs it off and her be try clear fawn response to whenever he scares her. It’s all there for us to see. The author really did a good job of showing all of that without making it overt.
Your analysis is spot on, and you put it into words so well. I really like how the dynamics of this story are so real, especially because it started out framing itself like a lighthearted romance genre. Like the moment when he made her the enemy of humanity and men threatened to yanno her; but then he was like 'why didn't you ask me to save you?' It reminded me so much of other scenes in Rofan stories with the ML coming to the rescue of the FL. He's trying to set himself up in roles as someone the FL relies on, which I notice overlaps with common romance tropes (childhood friend, anyone?), but FL refuses to feel saved. Especially what you're talking about of him looking back on the abuse fondly, it's such a ML attitude, but unlike a lot of Rofan I read this time the story doesn't hesitate to frame the behavior as villainous. I kind of feel like this is a parody of the common Rofan dymanic of cold overpowered ML and ordinary FL, but here the power dynamics are taken to the extreme in order to demonstrate how fucked up it is.
Definitely!!! Almost all “fairytales” are remade Grimm stories made to be palatable to shape and influence young and impressionable girls to accept a certain narrative and a certain type of abuse. It’s so systematic and manipulative that not many people realise it. Same way most old nursery rhymes are actually about horrific historical events like ring-around-a-Rosie which is actually about dying to the plague. This author is on another level of showing us exactly what we are consuming and what it truly is. For lack of a better way to put it, she’s unmasking what we’ve been conditioned to romanticise. Even me at the start of this story was like “awhhh he’s a bit quirky but I actually really like him and they probably just had a rocky relationship because of his race and he’s trying to do better but NOPE. That one scene where he says something and it triggers a whole body freeze response followed by him laughing and then a fake apology and him telling her “come here” and her curled into a ball on his lap was sending shivers down my spine cause that’s EXACTLY what abuse looks like and not a single person clocked it! I’m convinced this author is a genius.
That's such a good take. I would correct you (or add on?) a bit and say that he doesn't try to, lore-wise he's for certain an eldritch god, straight up inspired by Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. He doesn't try he just toys around with FL like some of us would with insects. Her world is so insignificant and unimportant to him that he doesn't care nor understand what it means to put her through all this trauma. Which bringing it back to your point, reflects on the pov of abusers. The "man" who doesn't understand the harm he causes.
Yeah. I did realise that he is just a typical eldritch being that simply lives life on a different playing field with different morals and different values than humans do. Just like it wouldn’t be right to assign morals to a lion killing zebra as “wrong” just because murder is wrong to humans, it’s also not right to assign morals to this eldritch being. That being said, I’m 87% sure the author is doing this as a social commentary. Someone else brought up the really good point about the parallel between this and other very common romantasy tropes like the childhood best friend, the guy who saves you from being hurt, the comforting ML and the husband who loves you so much that it overrides your amnesia and you fall in love again. It’s all common tropes but they pointed out how it’s a parody of them and showing how toxic they actually can be. I thought that was really interesting too.
I hope yall don’t let me down and the god of parties and the god of messages both make sure she’s his sister or cousin! Yall better do your job! Please..
if you were in this situation, you wouldn’t say shit either and I know from experience that I didn’t. The bottom never once said he likes him or anything positive. The only reason they are dating is to make sure the top doesn’t go off and live somewhere else and cut contact. That’s it. The top is in love with the bottom but it’s not reciprocated. He can’t say something either way and he’s teetering on the edge and the bottom has the nerve to get pissed but it’s actually the bottom that’s causing all of this shit to begin with. If the bottom just said he likes him and that he wants to be with him because he loves him and not because he’s possessive, that would help. Showing love would help. I agree they need to break up and take a break and then come together and lay it all out but while they are still dancing on this tightrope relationship, they can’t move backwards or forwards and will only continue to hurt each other. Again, speaking from experience. Until you’ve actually been through it, you don’t know how scary it is to be in this position and you’re always on the verge of saying how unfair it is cause that’s all you’re thinking about and when someone pushes you, you blurt out all the things you’ve been saying in your head. Him crying and throwing tantrums is normal. He has no one else to talk to about this so he’s literally stuck in his own thoughts and then when pushed, of course it’ll tumble out. He’s a ticking time bomb. Yes, he could end this relationship himself but right now, he knows that to end the relationship, he needs to pack his life up and move far away and completely cut the bottom out of his life and that’s a massive thing to do. To cut out your only lifeline and the only person you trust? Yall forget he’s an orphan and this is the only person he had from childhood until now. He can’t abandon the one person he’s had. It’s been all up to the bottom from the day the bottom pushed him into this relationship to appease him.
I’m sorry you had to go through that, and finally, someone is agreeing with me here.
Ppl are forgetting the reason why they’re dating in the first place. The bottom literally said that he’ll do what the top wants if it means for him to stay (not verbatim, but the intentions is the same). The top feels that their relationship won’t last much longer because of the bottom. The bottom knows that the top genuinely likes him, but does he (bottom) feel the same? Yes, actions speak louder than words… but not in this situation. It’s not easy talking about the situation and he knows that he if tells the bottom how he’s been feeling, he will think that he’s (bottom ) just saying that to make him stay. Thats why I do believe that top should leave, but I can understand why it’s hard for him to do that.
Exactly! The top is in the worst position. If he leaves, he leaves his only support system and if he stays, he will just never ever know if the bottom actually is being genuine or if it’s just a manipulation tactic to keep him where he is. In this case, actions and words both fail because first impressions dominate both of them. If your first impression of someone is them shoving 52 pickles up their asshole, no amount of words or actions would change what you think of them (extreme example) and this is the same thing. His (Top) first impression is of someone who will do absolutely anything (including the very thing he said he will never do) in order to keep the top around. You don’t just lose that reputation. That shit is stuck with you whether you like it or not.
The way I personally got out of that situation was that I left my support system. I left my “partner” and told them that if they still want me after 6 months apart, they are welcome to come to me and seduce me but in the mean time, I need space to process the high stress I was under and my attachment issues that I got from it. They did eventually come back to me but like a year and 3/4 later and I realised they never changed but if the bottom really does change and put in the effort and goes out of his way to make sure that the top knows that he’s madly in love with him right back, it would work out.
EXACTLYYYY!!
I’m gonna assume that top will eventually leave bottom. Either top leaves on his own accord, or somehow someway bottom tells top to leave. I’m also going to assume that there will be a deadline on when either one (better be bottom) will come back after that deadline. I pray that he cries, goes on his knees even
I can’t wait for the grovel arc. I’ve actually seen quite a few successful yaoi that have assholes reformed through grovelling and actual dedicated care.
Go to your hubby and get some comforting! Honestly them living together is great because both of them comfort each other and their jobs are pretty stressful.
IF YOU LOOK BACK IN THE COMMENTS I FUCKING CALLED IT!! I said that it’s probably the same as when your body says you’re hungry and you ignore it for long enough and it stops telling you that you’re hungry and that he just needs to bite his partner and cement the bond for it all to be okay and I FUCKING KNEW IT!! I feel so vindicated.
I still love him. He’s eldritch horror but he’s a good husband. Honestly, if this happened to me irl where a monster was stalking me and changing events and those around me, I would be so freaked out but if it was just the case of I saw a dude and liked him and turns out he’s an eldritch horror, I’d probably still like him so if I only knew him as the love my husband, I would have no problems. I think what makes this sadder is that she KNOWS she has these memories and she can almost taste them but whatever he did to the whole universe has changed it. It’s the Mandela effect but a person is controlling it. It’s soooo well written that even reading it, I’m getting tripped up.
Sir nata!!! I missed you my love! Please find out who this sus guy is! I don’t like his bowl cut.
Hes the ml
I know he is but sir nata doesn’t know that and I don’t like his bowl cut. If he gets a hair cut and a style change, I might feel differently but rn it’s nata for the win!
I feel you, I don't like that hair cut either, but for me it's the emp. Muahahahahaah. But I don't like the fact emp tryna use our gorl. So nata is the most cute guy
If I remember correctly, Nata’s race is genderless—neither male nor female—and often looks androgynous. I don’t remember specifics about it because it was only mentioned a couple times after Nata was introduced. They call Nata “Sir” because it’s a knight term rather than a gender thing. So, technically, Nata is not a “cute guy” but a “cute person.” (●'◡'●)ﾉ
Ah sorry i forgot, but anyway nata's too innocent for the world
Definitely for THIS world. (⌒▽⌒)
I’m guessing his backstory is that he was an esper and was broken and rebuilt into a super guide but the original intent was probably to make a super esper so he might be really compatible with the guides of fated bonds rather than the espers but it’s far easier to brute force an esper who is unstable than a guide who is stable.
If we compare the esper and guide verse to periodic elements, espers are the ever unstable hydrogen or magnesium or sodium while guides are like fluorine or chlorine. They are almost stable. While trying to make a super super stable (helium) esper, the doctor found it easier to start from a guide base since it would be the difference of 7 to 8 instead of 1 to 8 and then he can switch the guide to an esper. At least that’s my theory of how it works. I could be completely wrong and overthinking all of this.