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Reading the Assistant to the Villian series and a man panicking over his feelings for a girl will never not be funny-

I've been looking at some negative reviews and critical discussions of Silver Under Nightfall out of curiosity, because I'm very much in HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LIKE THIS mode and one of the most common points of criticism I've seen is people saying they don't feel chemistry between the three leads, because they don't find Xiaodan's and Malekh's attraction to Remy believable.

and this has made me wonder to what degree I simply adore the romance dynamic in this book because I absolutely want to: like yes, give me vampire polyamory with decent writing and a serious but not grimdark tone and I am on board just like that.

But there's also the aspect of it just being delicious wish fulfillment. Like oh no, our self-doubting wet cat of a protagonist is being told he's worthy of kindness by two beautiful, powerful, dangerous people who take him under their wing and just implicitly start protecting him from those who have abused him in the past, even before he realizes that what's happened to him is abusive in the first place.

Maybe I don't need a logical explanation for why these two powerful vampires - who have a history of picking up dying strays and nursing them back to undead health, if you remember - see a kind, competent and unfairly shunned guy and go "we'll get him out of there, and if he's up for it we'll take him into our lives and our bed".

Maybe Rin Chupeco's summary of "vampire couple finds himbo in the trash and takes him in" is actually all the character motivation and logical reasoning I need for this.

fourthleafluckart

everyone's favorite Filipino vampire hunter in all his Castlevania-esque glory

anyways Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco is a pulpy masterpiece of queer action and romance and I cannot recommend it enough if you are into literally any of those things

(Song Xiaodan is here) (Zidan is here)

coffeenonsense

remy pendergast is the most oblivious man that's ever existed two vampires break him out of prison, tease him, defend him to the LITERAL MONARCH of his nation, bring him home, LICK HIM, and tell him directly they want to fuck him MULTIPLE TIMES and meanwhile he's just sitting there like "what's happening?! what are they doing?"

babygirl they are seducing you. you're in a vampire poly relationship now and you are, literally, the very LAST person to learn this.