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HGM42
HGM42
1 year ago

This sounds like it would be a fun story if said story allowed both sides to reckon with it, but it sounds from the first chapter like they’re going to heavily lay ‘how could you betray’ on her shoulders despite him treating her like dogsh*t, like a prop that wasn’t even human.

But what a fun potential story there would be if she was allowed to make him reckon with his mistreatment and he had to look at her differently even as he seethed and sought various ways to avenge himself that didn’t stray into tasteless garbage territory. The powerplay could be super interesting and spicy, but instead the deposed king is surrounded by his own people (this hilariously bad worldbuilding so that the author can shoehorn in a scene of SA sahdklasj if you want that bad to just slop the fetish in fully commit without this waffling) and she’s at fault for not being loyal to a man who treated her like an inanimate object?

It’s fiction, there’s no problem with dark romance and her being somewhat drawn to him Stockholm style after spending so much time so close. It would just be so much more interesting if it had/has enough depth to allow both characters to feel like their POV has weight instead of seeming to drown in his Evil Man Pain.