queerdinosuar's manga / #Mpreg(24)

Ok the first part of this story has been upsetting to read. Like watching a nice guy living his own life start to fall for this asshole CEO’s charade of courtship that he is only grudgingly putting on. It’s just awful hearing the internal monologue from the omega guy all hopeful about this nice friendly guy who he is meeting. And then you hear the internal thoughts of the alpha guy and he’s constantly saying how ugly, dumb, and arrogant the omega is, comparing him to a rat and planning how to manipulate him into having his child while knowing full well that his body is probably not healthy enough for that. It kinda makes my skin crawl, makes me want to yell at the omega to get out of there at any cost. I’m going to keep reading at least for now, I’m only 9 chapters in. Maybe it will get better but I am dropping the series if it doesn’t seem like the alpha guy changes and apologizes sincerely for how awful of a person he is being. By chapter 12 the shitty alpha’s true colors are coming out and thank god Haejin, the omega, is actually standing up for himself and reacting the way a rational person would to his insane requests. He sees the change in personality for what it is and hopefully won’t compromise. It’s gonna take a lot to redeem this alpha guy and I just hope the narrative follows through and doesn’t sweep it under the rug. So they have done a better job of redeeming him than I feared. After Haejin leaves and cleverly uses all his survival skills to escape into the forest (well set up as a consistent part of his personality btw), Hwan is distraught for weeks and clearly reevaluates some things. Unfortunately, we don’t see a lot of that actually happen. We see him be upset and rethink a couple things but the actual reflection and regret as reflected in his thoughts is missing. And once he reunites with Haejin, he apologizes generally but in my opinion doesn’t actually address the awful things he has done and the trauma he inflicted. Credit to the story, Hawjin doesn’t fully forgive him or let him forget what he did and how horrible of a person he was, he brings it up. This would be a great point for Hwan to reflect and apologize specifically for how he treated his bf in different ways. So I’m buying their redemption at about 65-70% of what I want it to be to be cathartic and satisfying as a narrative. Better than the 20% or 5% I feared that I’ve seen in others, but could be better with some easy changes. Also this is compartively minor but the baby at the end of the story is so much bigger than the should be. Not like she is older than makes sense, but the baby is like the size of a torso when being 3 months old and her head is the same size of an adult head. Also she can talk at 3 months? The author clearly doesn’t know anything about babies, which is not uncommon for comics like this that I’ve seen but it’s funny. Usually they draw the babies too small lol. After finishing it, it was very cute at the end, but I didnt feel it was entirely deserved. I think Haejin forgave his captor too quickly, being kidnapped and imprisoned and forced to get pregnant is something that would probably traumatize him for the rest of his life and even if he chooses to forgive his now husband, Hwan shouldn’t be allowed to forget he did all that. That said, it did hold him more accountable than some stories I’ve read, but that’s a low bar.