his first few panels were actually terrifying to me at the time. This art keeps upgrading on us. Go best frand
Looking like actual goofy the dog sat down and decided to make a comic cause what the fuck.
I’m not usually a stickler about these things but it messes with the tone of the story to where I feel like I can’t take it seriously. And that upsets me so much because we literally never fucking get SHONEN BL that is also serious and in the hunter genre without some weird alpha or esper whatever bullshit. Like this is straight up BL action fantasy.
And no I don’t care if yall are upset with me for not liking it ??? I said what the fuck I said
I feel that given more time, Duke could have had some sort of redemption. Not full 180, but a change. And tbh even with all his bad, it was still possible for him to become some kind of antihero even — but like his master said, his mindset ruined him. That said, I don’t remember his master once telling him this before in a way that wasn’t bad for his mental health. So the weight of those word’s didn’t hit for me.
The vibe is: “That’s what you get” after watching him descend? Huh.
I’m not happy Duke is gone because nothing changes whether he is here or not. He’s not a Zuko or an Azula. We weren’t given some traumatic backstory to relate to him. He’s like a stand-in character that just shows us how everyday villains are made in this world. Bc any other villain could have been him. He almost doesn’t matter because even the top ten around him seem to care less whether he lives or dies.
This is a terrible world awakeners live in. And I’m almost impressed that the writer never backtracked on that just to make us comfortable.
That said, because we spent so much screen time with him, ending his story just like that is dissatisfying.
Duke is cringey but he really puts into perspective how dog eat dog this awakened world is. From the jump, his master took on someone who would betray their own family, classmates and even kill/mortally wound them. And he saw the obsessive evil in Duke but never once confronted him. Even Royst only pretended to look after him, he just belittled Duke whenever he got the chance. The other top ten only look upon the situation, but none of these powerful people ever actually say anything. They don’t care as long as the apprentice is useful. The only ones who did actually talk to Duke were the evil guys trying to use him & bait him with promises of power. It’s insane how he can be a bad apple and still really a pawn on a fucked up board. If he dies, another apple will take his place because the whole barrel is rotten.
Like Kayden says, Jiwoo is the weird one for having awakened friends and a moral compass. The rest of this awakened world is monstrous. Jiwoo has all these powerful babysitters, but if any of the stronger assassins really wanted to take him out for the plot, I don’t see why they couldn’t while he’s on a walk. They just probably don’t have a strong enough reason to (given that it’d seal their fates). But what if there was another unaffiliated psycho that didn’t have ties to an organization…
and im shook but imma stick beside him because he protect his own I kind of feel bad for the people that were drafted and didn't even want to fight this goofy ass war between cowardly leaders
can we get some more story too. Cause we get it that he has a hulk sized dickaroo but I'm gonna need to know what's going on with this crack dungeon
but I'm glad he has backbone. Nothing is more sad than an mc in these positions who then are like "Ok dad i'll still give you money" like that other story I read it's not the child fault but like damn don't still pay that bastard. Anyway, I hope things start looking up for Yeomin cause them sex scenes are type painful. Idk how I got through Dangerous Convenience when I cringe seeing that third leg butcher a twink
