Comment by iread4pleasure on Jinx - Chapter 6

Comment on ChapterJinx - Chapter 6

Thoughts on this chapter:

Da** you, Dan! You should have given yourself a day before accepting the "s** at any time" requirement in the contract! I know you didn't know, but he is obsessed with your booty. I bet Dan could have blueballed him into bringing the contract back to "pre-match s** only" for the same price per month. Oh well, I guess more sad r*pe scenes for us, sick readers.

Thoughts on the series:

Ok, I haven't read BJ Alex for a while, but there's clear parallel between this story and that. Some things worth noting here that is different though: the quality of art is already really good in BJ Alex, but Jinx takes it to another level. Lovely art, super spicy. The issue of class (debt, financial hardship, etc.), albeit is a trope in BL stories, is not so significant in BJ Alex. The aesthetic of class difference was there but it didn't define the story. For this story, the story relies on the class difference between Dan and JJ.

(spoilers for BJ Alex)

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Outside of that, Jinx's arrogant, uncaring seme and soft, caring uke are very similar to the seme and uke for BJ Alex but are different in significant ways. Dan is not nearly as obsessed with Joo Jaekyung (JJ) as DG was with Alex. Presumably, Dan if anything hates JJ, but has sadly no choice but to put up with him. JJ also is not nearly as ashamed about his sexuality as Alex, who cares about the split between his private and public-facing persona.

As a consequence of this difference, the theme of identity doesn't seem to be as important in Jinx as it was in BJ Alex; however, the theme of recognizing a person's self-worth is a theme that I think will carry over from BJ Alex. 

The question now is: Will the author follow the same story beats as BJ Alex or are they going to surprise us by taking us to a different journey? 

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Here are my predictions for this series:

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- JJ will fall in love with Dan first and early on but will brush it off the same way Alex brushed off his true feelings for DG.
- Dan will put up with JJ, who will escalate his abuse of Dan. Dan will admirably put up with he**, but will break at some point, because the worst will happen: grandma's inevitable death.
- Dan will have no reason to see JJ and may recognize his self worth is more important than being JJ's s*x toy. He will leave JJ, who will obsess over Dan because he can't find him, and realize how much of an ass**** he was (like Alex did).
- JJ is going to lose a match because he is unable to fulfill his jinx with Dan. No other man will meet that level of boyp*ssy.
- Dan will not be able to pay his debtors and they will go after him. At some point, JJ is going to beat up these debtors to save Dan.
- Dan will eventually fall in love with JJ (toxic as it is). JJ will have a change in character (after us learning more about his childhood trauma) as he realizes that he doesn't have to be so mean to his boy Dan. 
- The s** will be rough the entire time. Dan is gonna cry around 75% of the time.