On the supposed trope of Akihito’s inescapable sex-appeal…There’s a thing I keep readin

On the supposed trope of Akihito’s inescapable sex-appeal…There’s a thing I keep reading quite often and right now with chapter 89 it’s popping up even more frequently.This post contain minor spoilers for Chapter 89!The idea right now is that the appearance of Asami’s brother Maxim and his well-tanned friend Alec means they will both fall for Akihito, and that Asami will have to fight them to keep Akihito for himself.The idea in general is that every man in Finder has the hots for Akihito…… but in fact there were only 3 in all of the male cast.Now of course I have no idea where Sensei is going and it might indeed happen that Alec or Maxim or both will be interested in Akihito. That is of course possible. We simply don’t know yet. I would not mind it.But if the only argument supporting this idea or claim is based on “every man in Finder is hot for Akihito”, then it’s standing on very shallow ground… because they aren’t.There are exactly 3 men who are/were sexually attracted to Akihito:1st Asami - he was sexually attracted from the start and therefore decided to punish Akihito’s brattiness sexually. It became love later.2nd Sakazaki - he was also sexually attracted right away, but even more so when he figured that he was “using Asami’s toy”.3rd Fei Long - and I placed him only on 3rd for a simple reason: He thought Akihito was pretty and had nice skin, yet the first sexual deeds had nothing to do with Akihito being sexually attractive to him but happened as a revenge and offense for Asami.Sexual attraction from Fei Long towards Akihito came later, and love/caring/friendship a while after that.Now you might argue: But there were others who touched him! And I will answer: Yes, but their sexual harassment of Akihito had nothing to do with Akihito in special.Yuri - did not touch Akihito sexually first of all (except for that tiny, irritated poke with the gun)… And then Akihito is just in the range of what triggers his closed-off-homosexuality, but he never gives in to it. He falls into rage instead, because Akihito makes him feel/remember that he has the hots for young boys and is a homosexual, and he is disgusted by it. This is also more about Mikhail than about Akihito.Mikhail - only touched Akihito to annoy Yuri. He thought Aki was pretty but plain.Sudou - touched Akihito and molested him to subdue him, but when he got all sexual on him he dreamed about having sex with Asami. It had nothing to do with Akihito.And the rest: No interest at all. Not one of Asami’s men is interested, not one in Baishe. Kuroda wasn’t, Yoh wasn’t even though he saw him naked. Aaron wasn’t. Not any other of Mikhail’s men was, not any of Akihito’s co-workers or the guys who beat him up for Sudou, not one in the temple was…Indeed the whole thing of being sexually attractive to any man seemed to be something completely new to Akihito when Asami came into his life. And after that there were only Fei Long and Sakazaki who fell for Akihito’s personal sex-appeal. No one else.So the claim that Alec and Maxim will automatically or even only very likely fall for Akihito “because all men in the story do” is baseless. Akihito is not spreading inevitable aphrodisiac.Again, it is possible that they will, yes! If Sensei chooses to take this path. But then it simply won’t be because everybody falls for Akihito, but just because that ONE person jumps in at place number 4 of the Akihito-fan-queue ;).And I honestly think that this way it would be more endearing even IF that attention might not be wanted by Akihito. It’s more like those 3 people - and then the 4th - are really falling FOR HIM as a sexual attractive, natural person and not for him being a “caricature of a walking men-magnet”.But to shove even more into this post, Akihito is not even in first place when it comes to getting sexual attention from other men. Firstly: He is at least at a draw with Fei Long counting Yoh, Yan-Tsui and Mikhail.And actually… I could also put Asami up on that list, because even if he had no romantic interest in Fei Long, Asami got “all sexual on him” with his “calming down” and only stopped because he “did not want to push Fei Long into a corner” and knew that Fei Long did not want what he was doing there.Why he acted like this - I could write a whole second post on that - but the usual Asami would pretty likely not have stopped there, but would have gone the whole way - IF his caring for Fei Long had not gotten the better of his usual Alpha-Male-sex-drive. Furthermore, we know by “Finder no Rakuin” that Fei Long’s sexual attractiveness has been used by Yan-Tsui veeery successfully for years to serve the means of Baishe and himself.So … from the "sex-appeal” point it would be rather likely that they fell for Fei Long. And I don’t expect any of that.Secondly: Asami counts Sudou and probably Kuroda with all his fan-girling over him, and as the super-seme he’s the first drawing all the attention by yaoi-law.So it might be more likely for Alec to fall for Asami - though I doubt that he will, (cough cough… because I think he is the main bad guy and that any interest he might have in Asami will not be about sex, but about power and wealth and possibly revenge and whatnot…)“You forgot to list Fei Long for Asami”, you might say now. And I’ll say: yes, but no: Why I took Fei Long out right here?….. Because as a matter of fact, that was not really sexual attraction.Fei Long was in love with Asami. When they met there was no sexual interest of Fei Long in the other, there wasn’t even really when Asami forced himself onto him. Fei Long was shocked he even got aroused by that and did not understand what was going on with him. He just simply was in love with Asami from some point on and it did not have much to do with sexual attraction. It might have played into it that Asami is fucking hot, but at that point in his life I don’t think Fei Long was interested in anybody sexually at all because of his past of constant sexual abuse.And even later when he has Akihito in his grasp the sex is more about getting back at Asami and taking away from him what he likes so much: his supposed toy. Fei Long asks what Asami does to Akihito in bed because he wants to proof that Akihito does not only react to Asami with arousal but to any man touching and treating him like that.Just like Asami did before, Fei Long is using the slut-shaming-trope on Akihito, because he’s getting aroused by being touched/fucked by Fei Long as much as he got aroused by being touched/fucked by Asami.And that is also the big difference between Fei Long’s and Sudou’s assault on Akihito: Sudou fantasizes about sex with Asami when he did so. Fei Long just wants to hurt Asami for his supposed betrayal, but sexual attraction from Asami to him is not a real part of this.Fei Long simply loved Asami, all sexual interest aside, and feels betrayed, therefore he seeks revenge by using something that Asami values.Tl;dr:I think the claim “any new character in Finder will automatically be sexually interested in Akihito” is based on nothing that actually happens in canon.They might fall for his sex-appeal, but then they do so because of the way their character is written and because of genuine attraction they feel for Akihito - and not because Akihito is making every man around rabid with his pheromones. -- source link
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