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obstinaterixatrix · 5 months

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anyway there’s also a series being tl’d which is basically ‘guy who wants to be the bullied mc’s yandere boyfriend ❤️ and kills all the bullies’ and I can understand the revenge fantasy aspect combined with the thriller/horror aspect but honestly when unhinged romances involve other characters it loses me because it guts focus from relationship development. well in this case it isn’t about relationship development, I’d consider the relationship basically just the set up for revenge murder spree. and with the other characters that exist to be killed, the purpose is to create characters that are satisfying to kill and characters that ‘deserve’ to die so some part of the retaliation is ‘justified’ (even if the response is disproportionate). well in general revenge fantasies aren’t my type of narrative

#orlbs #mislb #whereas with sleeping dead it was just a bonus aside #not a revenge fantasy narrative #90% of the manga was still the mc & li together ❤️ (unethical experiments and cannibalism and coerced co-murder)#wait I left out the main point #and with what is considered #‘justified’ to kill usually means getting into 1) really hardcore bad vibes stuff #2) playing on conventional ideas of what’s ‘disgusting’ which usually inevitably has some collateral damage #you can’t really thread the needle on some of it

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