"no more treating caleb like a loser" tysvm ππ you've healed my heart for him w those, i am SO done w the angst and caleb just being treated so awfully π£ and since i don't personally relate to the "bratty" attitude, i don't relate to the mc at all either, so to have your writing kinda validate just being loving and gracious w caleb π₯Ή ty ty tysm!!
I HEAR YOU OUT ANON!!! πββοΈπββοΈ believe me, i LOVE angst, but it feels so unfulfilling to me when there isn't the comfort/happiness/proper make-up afterwards. AND LET ME TELL YOUβik it's canon that caleb is the type where he's all "you don't need to worry about me, just let me be here for you" and it makes me so@+$+$+_( like PLSSS BABY LET ME SPOIL YOU WITH ALL THE LOVE, A RELATIONSHIP CAN'T BE A ONE-WAY STREET </3 so that's why i made non mc reader where he can feel like he can truly depend/rely on you. he needs someone that feels like home, like healing.
as for the bratty attitude, i think it can be fun, but it puts me off when the brattiness becomes 'against caleb'. as in, to the point that it can hurt him. the brattiness that my poor tender heart can only tolerate is when you're playfully teasing/sexually riling him up or something.
like, idk, what i can't handle in an example: maybe he does something helpful/protective that isn't even overbearing, and you're like, "stop it!!! stop treating me like a child!!! i want you to stop protecting me, i can handle myself!" and then proceeds to give him the silent treatment for days. i hate that kind of thing sm omg. i never like it when he gets treated awfully or when the affection isn't balanced or it's nearly always one-sided or when his efforts go unnoticed/unacknowledged. that's why i love making my mcs/non mcs so very loving in a LOUD way for him.
and about the loser partβi can't handle describing him that unless mc/non mc is like "he's such a loser but i'm a loser too because i love love loooove him" and has a dopey smile on (kind of like the "pining idiots in love" trope).
