And I never said the dude was a nice guy who deserved the girl or anything, I never even said he was a good person, merely that MC was far worse, far more self-absorbed and refusing to see anyone's perspective but her own. This isn't about the larger narrative of a history of yuri erasure or something, this is literally just "the MC was insanely uncaring about other people's feelings", simple as that. I'm not going to accept such a warped story of forcing yourself on others to make them love you as "a win for yuri!" because if anything, it's a win for emotional abuse. Ideally, none of these people would ever get together, let alone continue to interact with each other, since their emotional stability flies out the window whenever they're with one another, but if the only two realistic options were "girl goes with dude" and "girl goes with MC", then, yuri be damned, I'll pick the less manipulative ending and go with the former, though both are pretty bad options for the reasons I've stated above.
Less manipulative? You are given obvious hints from the very beginning that the het was already on shaky ground before MC started e
being aggressive. The girl didn't even let the dude clen her ears, they havent properly kissed(assuming from the "I guess"), and at the first sign of MC showing her feelings the girl didn't want any physical contact with the dude. That's the relationship you wanted to win over the heartbroken gay girl who thought that everyone would think she was disgusting if she let your feelings be known? Alrightythen.
Everything you just said amounts to her not wanting to physically touch the guy, which can clearly be seen as the confusion/trauma of having her best friend forcibly kiss her. Clearly you haven't seen Phantom Blood. None of that compares to the actual emotional manipulation that the MC puts her through.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/toumei_na_usui_mizuiro_ni_ch02#14
She also rejects MC's touch as well, because, again, confusion brought on by MC's forced kiss.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/toumei_na_usui_mizuiro_ni_ch02#16
Which the girl CLEARLY states right here. If y'all think "oh noes, she forcibly kissed me and now I'm all hot and bothered because I realize I love her instead of my boyfriend, guess I'll push him away and eventually give into her selfish ways" is good romance... then yikes, because that's literally the logic hentai uses. "You say that you hate me, but look at your lewd body's reaction! Clearly you love my uncalled for physical advances!" Real romance doesn't start when one party forces themselves on the other.
You do realize she's a teenage girl who recently realized she's not only gay but in love with her best friend who is dating her other childhood friend, right? Cause what you described her as (self-absorbed and unable to see others' perspectives) is one of the most common traits a person can have at that age and teenage girls tend to be quite emotional and act irrationally.
You do realize that, while true, none of that absolves her actions. Everything you just said is an explanation, not an excuse. Teenagers being horny doesn't mean it's okay for them to touch people without their consent, even if somehow that magically causes the other person to fall in love with them afterwards, I don't see what's so hard about this that none of you can understand.
But dude, you do know that the other girl is awake, right? And that knowing their position, MC could not possibly bent 90° to kiss the girl so MC might lift her head a bit and kiss where like sloooowly and if other girl doesn't want it to happen, she might just wake up or something. Oh since you're a bit sensitive, this might come out as "victim blaming". So let's say, she can't say no to MC's said
"assault". But does that really equate to that? Sounds to you like MC raped the girl. It was a wrong decision to force a kiss on her sleeping friend, yes. But like they're teenage and doesn't know what to do with their feelings? People do make mistakes. And there are ALWAYS consequences for that. It just turned out her consequences went bit smoothly unlike in other scenes where other people would be disgusted towards her.
People always overthink and force their own ideals. So I understand how you see the situation but like, this is also how we see the situation.
