Let's have another round of "recommend anime to 4mask"
Actually, I still have to get through the massive list you all gave me last time.
Let's start out easy here, 'cause I don't remember: what
have you seen/put on your to-do list?
The reality, of course, is that without mind control, a relationship like that would crash and burn like goddamn, probably incinerating significant portions of the countryside considering both the characters in question are what amounts to magical WMDs.
Man, I
reaaaaaally hate to do this, but that's another bit of bad fanon. When the runes go away, y'know what happens? He gets hit with a massive burst of homesickness, because that's what they were blocking. And then, a short time later, he realizes that he still loves her, and that the runes had nothing to do with that. Literally all they do, apart from the magic superpower, is make it so that he doesn't mind not being at home. It's the moment that pretty definitively solidifies their relationship because they both know that it's them and not magic doing it.
'course, it's still a shit story. And that's what I'm preaching here: It's not wrong to hate terrible writing, but hate it for the right reasons, for the awful crap that the author actually wrote, rather than the awful crap that even worse fanfiction writers have made up because they couldn't even manage to get two-tone flat characters to come out realistically and had to resort to sheets of paper with "horrid bitch" and "useless pervert" written on them over and over like a version of The Shining where Jack Torrance doesn't go bad, he goes
worse.
This has been a message from the society for factually correct fiction-bashing.
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As an aside, yeah, Neo, I can see how ZnT is a bad choice for someone who has been in an abusive relationship. Of course, I'd say the same for any series that uses the tsundere female lead and vapid pervert asshole male lead archetypes, because they always, predictably, go the exact same way: VPAML does something stupid, TFL hits him, idiots laugh.
I wouldn't recommend Rambo to someone with PTSD either, but that doesn't mean that nobody should watch/read it, or that it's equivalent to Saw. That said, Rambo at least has the redeeming feature of being mildly entertaining, and I doubt anyone would claim that for ZnT.