Haha whoops =) I did consider that, the "normalisation" angle, and yeah maybe but this shit with Karuniya also feels considerably weirder than comparable things from Norn/Adelheid or Genivov. Doesn't help that Murati often seems really uncomfortable/awkward in response to this weird shit: this flashback, the first time "husband material" is brought up. I do have my own oversensitivity in mind when I'm thinking this, but shit was eating at my brain If Karuniya has gotten better, it'd be cute if she would do that on-page instead of in secret and we have to assume it... I think it's not just that she is horny, or that she is terribly self-absorbed; it's gotta be the combination of those PLUS the fact that she has borderline nothing else going on. It throws this weird stuff into focus and I overthink and then write 2000+ words about it on bear website
I didn't exactly see them get close though? I mostly saw Karuniya being a weird, belittling, judgemental neurotypical (yes I am slandering her) about everything Murati likes and cares about, and wanting to have sex with her. The date was painfully awkward and not in a cute way... Tbh it kind of seems like even still today Karuniya is kind of weird about Murati's career pursuits. Idk, does Karuniya EVER talk to anybody other than Murati? Does she exist without Murati in the room, even? And yet she is this weird, how exactly is it that the PROTAGONIST'S WIFE has so little in the way of character traits or development?
Oh yes, I'm sorry lmao
Haha whoops =) I did consider that, the "normalisation" angle, and yeah maybe but this shit with Karuniya also feels considerably weirder than comparable things from Norn/Adelheid or Genivov. Doesn't help that Murati often seems really uncomfortable/awkward in response to this weird shit: this flashback, the first time "husband material" is brought up. I do have my own oversensitivity in mind when I'm thinking this, but shit was eating at my brain
If Karuniya has gotten better, it'd be cute if she would do that on-page instead of in secret and we have to assume it... I think it's not just that she is horny, or that she is terribly self-absorbed; it's gotta be the combination of those PLUS the fact that she has borderline nothing else going on. It throws this weird stuff into focus and I overthink and then write 2000+ words about it on bear website 
I didn't exactly see them get close though? I mostly saw Karuniya being a weird, belittling, judgemental neurotypical (yes I am slandering her) about everything Murati likes and cares about, and wanting to have sex with her. The date was painfully awkward and not in a cute way... Tbh it kind of seems like even still today Karuniya is kind of weird about Murati's career pursuits. Idk, does Karuniya EVER talk to anybody other than Murati? Does she exist without Murati in the room, even? And yet she is this weird, how exactly is it that the PROTAGONIST'S WIFE has so little in the way of character traits or development?