#milaowm

(Thank you so much for this request!! Minors DNI. NSFW under the cut. Breeding kink, crying, biting, clit spanking, hitting it from the back, vanilla sex.)

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Therdeo Lapileon SFW & NSFW HCs

╫ Therdeo Lapileon, such a reserved man and he's so reclusive..so most don't even try, but somehow you get his attention. You do! And it's awkward, but cute as he strikes up conversations, looks through guests list of banquets and events to see if you're going to be there, just to attend..the sudden activity becomes a bustling news to all of society.

╫ He courted you, always covering himself so no way any blood could get on you, he could not forgive himself. It took a long time to actually asking you out because he felt you deserved better than someone with cursed blood, a lot of convincing from Saoirse and even letters from Gloria.

╫ Skipping to dating, he's reclusive as always, but it's intimate. He'll go out of his way to attend events with you and it brings a burst of news to the empire hearing the grand duke's increase in social activity. It makes the hearts of ladies who have eyes on him beat faster, but it stops when they learn he's dating you.

╫ He would take you horseback riding on days when he's free around the countryside, maybe show off his hunting skills and then you'd ride him like a horse. Anyway. He's hella hot in leather and archery equipment, got it?

╫ Never leaves himself uncovered around you, makes sure no way his blood can get to you, unless you're immune his blood like Pereshati, he's not willing to risk it. AT ALL! And yes, it's because of this that it takes you both a lot of time to get used to affection and he still gets scared, constantly checking himself, making sure he isn't picking at his nails, hair or even lips which might cause him to bleed.

╫ Some days, he likes to match his clothes be it by pattern, colour, material of the cloth or even bey accessories, though they make him look a bit feminine. He gets embarrassed at looking feminine at first, but kind of appreciates your desire to make him yours by subtle things like matching clothes.

╫ He even got Saoirse to make you and him matching handkerchiefs, and it's his basic lifeline and he carries it everywhere with a basic one. Because he doesn't have the heart to use the one Saoirse made him because what if he loses it? So he uses basic white ones, but keeps the special one sprayed with your perfume for comfort.

╫ Speaking of, he sprays your perfume so you better have two bottles because he begins using your bottle because it brings him comfort on nights when he's going through blood breakdown/vomit rebuttals to spray some on his pillows, clothes. Just a spritz, not much

THERE FACES ARE LITERALLY MY REACTION LMAO

...I was swiftly reminded of both how peak this manhwa is but also how sexist the webtoon comments as well as most online (especially fandom) spaces in general are.

It has been about a year, maybe two, since I last read MILAOWM for the first time and a very interesting thing I noted was that I was noticeably less angry and spiteful towards the villain characters, especially the female villains (which is most of them).

Yes, including Dodolea. I was surprised because I was much more emotional the first time I read it and I thought maybe I liked the story less but that couldn't be it because I was appreciating it all so much more than I remember doing the first time. The art, the writing, the dialogue, even the pacing (though it did drag at times), I was having a wonderful time.

So, I eventually realized that since I read the story, I have grown as a person and now have a more detached attitude, since I see characters for what they, narrative tools to tell a story, and what matters most is if that story is good and engaging.

I'm not saying I'm incapable of emotional attachment to characters, no, I very much am. This blog only exists because I formed an emotional attachment to Og Cale/HeniRoksoo and I will admit, I haven't formed that kind of emotional attachment to any character in MILAOWM, which is why I'm able to appreciate its narrative a lot more, I think.

Perhaps someone could say that's a sign of bad writing but I don't think so because people can become emotionally attached to anything, even terrible things. To this day, one of my favorite characters is Ayano Aishi from Yandere Simulator, there is very little about that game to be praised, including Ayano, and I still love her to bits, so I don't think of it as bad writing that I didn't form that attachment to one of MILAOWM's characters, especially since the story can still get an emotional response out of me for pretty much every character.

Here is a crude drawing, made by me, to more clearly express myself.

There's levels to things, you can dislike an objectively well-written story and character for completely subjective reasoning, and you can acknowledge that something is objectively bad and still like it for subjective reasons.

I don't really know where I'm going with this post, it's kind of jut dumping my thoughts. The point I was gonna make is that I think there can be different measures for good writing and good stories, because story is also the word I use to describe my friends telling me about their day. A story can be good for the emotional response it gets from you and be objectively badly written, and a story can be bad for making you feel nothing while being objectively well-written.

MILAOWM is well-written and it's also a good story because it still makes me feel things. Solo Levelling is mid because yeah I felt the hype when reading it but I stopped caring for it soon after, only caring about the fics I read of it afterwards. My favorite character from Solo Levelling, just the one, is Go Gunhee because he's the only character that's made me cry. I read Solo Levelling and cried twice, both times due to Go Gunhee and felt overall ambivalent to the experience of consuming it.

Like sure other manhwas can claim that this noble family is ‘cold’ or ‘imposing’ but then they become all uwu besties with the protagonist after like, 2 decent social interactions. But it took like 15 chapters for Celphi to become Pereshati’s friend, and even more for characters like Saoirse and Gloria. 100+ chapters in the Lapileons are still acting like a bunch of traumatized weirdos who (while making some progress) usually can’t articulate their feelings unless they think they’re actively dying.

Volume 7 of My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me