Disclaimer. This story is a four because it felt right and satisfied me on a few levels, despite having two messed up leads, because they ended up in a healthy relationship. This story did not get me excited or pumped up or turn me into a fangirl at all.
Okay. This story was the first one in which I was SATISFIED with the relationship of the lead coule, despite them being messed up. It felt accurate and right. It lined up with what I was believing. The relationship turned into a "salvation" for them both and I respect that, BECAUSE the Seme here was like "Him being my salvation relies on him simply being there. Nothing more, nothing less. Wether I take that savlation is my own decision." And that's probably not the exact quote, but it was PERFECT because she was acknowledging so much in that quote I just- MHMHMHMHMHMHMHMHMHGGGGHHGHGHHHGGGGMMMMM So Yeah, that satisfied me. Then the Uke. The way he used the rich guy was incredible XD He kinda didn't use him for everything, which I totally would have, but it's cool, I liked the boundaries this guy had even though I disagreed with them. So anyway, he also relied on the Seme in the right moments in regards to his sister, Theo being in danger. So kudos to him~ Also also, they were like, super healthy and the Uke was aware when the Seme could have been into him and that was great.
The sex was cool (even though it was smut and was clearly unrealistic, the way they built up to it felt okay, so I decided to call it sex here) And though it was a shame that in the ending the dreams had been getting worse (you'll get what I mean) the dreams were supposedly dealt with and made better in the extra or something, so that's cool. BUT they could have really really done that so much better, with so much more spice and effort and careful building-up, but whatever.
Anyway, this is for a rr when I need to figure out how to manke things spicy. Because this one felt not-wrong, but there was no spice.
A Thousand Cranes