Status Updates From When You Are Mine (The Benn...

This is a hot mess: insta-lust explained away by contrived connections over Trauma dump from all sides, history of rape trauma, foster system trauma, orphans, terminal cancer of a little kid they both care for, his entire personality is that he works for an orphanage charity… too much telling me and very little showing. Then add kidnapping + cheating and a dying parent to the mix! It’s like a soap opera

Trope I loathe unlocked: instead of finding a way for characters to truly bond of interests etc, they bond over heavy doses of trauma dump