History YMMV / Teahouse

* TheWoobie: Five-year-old Linneus is the Woobiest thing ever to exist, but Rory definitely qualifies in the present storyline.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: For a character who, until page fifty, didn't have a ''single line of dialogue'', Mercutio is wildly popular.

* BaseBreaker: On one hand, there is a bunch of fans who love Linneus for being cute, dainty, sweet and a LoveMartyr - an ever popular character type among Yaoi fans; on the other hand, you have the ones that can't stand him for being far too effeminate, gutless and weak, even for an {{Uke}}.

* RonTheDeathEater: Xanthe's wife pops by to greet an old friend, announce an expected pregnancy, and try and talk her husband into spending a little less time away at work. The most rabid parts of the fandom have taken that she, respectively, only continues to pretend to be Linneus' friend to keep him handy for backstabbing, deliberately tried to hurt his feelings with the baby news, and actively and coldly manipulates Xanthe.

** And Yvette, mostly because she's the biggest obstacle between Xanthe and Linneus, being Xanthe's pregnant wife.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. This is repeated with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee (although how bitchy she wants to be remains to be seen). ''And'' Xanthe's pregnant wife Yvette, who actually is a very nice person and has been ''amazingly'' tolerant (or unknowing) of her husband's affair with Lilith. Her situation is more sympathetic, but she's still just an obstacle.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. This is repeated with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee. ''And'' Xanthe's pregnant wife Yvette, who actually is a very nice person and has been ''amazingly'' tolerant of her husband's affair with Lilith. Her situation is more sympathetic, but she's still just an obstacle.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Despite the authors {{lampshading}} this on the website's character descriptions, some people still confuse Linneus' sex. You can't really blame them, though.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. This is repeated with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee.

** Yvette has only been introduced for a few pages and she's ''already'' being flamed for being married to Xanthe, being pregnant with his child, and for using just the tiniest bit of manipulation so her workaholic husband would actually spend time with her. From just a few pages some fans are convinced that she's a manipulative bitch who tricked Xanthe into their marriage/the baby/both, told Linneus about the baby just to hurt him, and since its clearly an arranged marriage Xanthe doesn't have to be faithful to her because she didn't 'earn' him.

* DieForOurShip: Lilith is unpopular to say the least, since she has passage into Xanthe's pants while Linneus is left USTing.

** Reed's OCD being PlayedForLaughs.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. This is repeated again with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. She has no other characterization, and seems to be treated like an obstacle to be overcome/removed rather than a person. Time will tell if she'll be fleshed out into a character in her own right. This is repeated again with Gloria, Rhys's fiancee.

** On a similar note, Mercutio is described as "gross". The most he is is ''kinky'', which is implied to be the reason for that description. Add that to the fact that he's yet to receive much in the way of screen time, and...

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. She has no other characterization, and seems to be treated like an obstacle to be overcome/removed rather than a person. Time will tell if she'll be fleshed out into a character in her own right.
** This is repeated again with Gloria, Rhys's fiance, who's only scene consists of her - unsurprisingly - being bitchy and saying she will make Rhys's life a living hell if he crosses her. This is despite her very reasonable request that if her womanizing fiance ''must'' cheat on her could he please not humiliate her by allowing it to become public, or she will make Rhys and his mistress's life a living hell. So, again, she could become another block between a yaoi couple.
** The former description of Linneus on the cast page said "He's practically a woman. He wants to have millions of Atros' babies". It's pretty clearly meant as a joke, but needless to say, it wasn't in the best of taste.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. She has no other characterization, and seems to be treated like an obstacle to be overcome/removed rather than a person. Time will tell if she'll be fleshed out into a character in her own right.
** This is repeated again with Gloria, Rhys's fiance, who's only scene consists of her - unsurprisingly - being bitchy and saying she will make Rhys's life a living hell if he crosses her. This is despite her very reasonable request that if her womanizing fiance ''must'' cheat on her could he please not humiliate her by allowing it to become public, or she will make Rhys and his mistress's life a living hell. So, again, she could become another block between a yaoi couple.
** On a different topic, this glamorized version of a private whorehouse seems a little too clean and well tended. ''Actual'' whorehouses were anything BUT clean and glamorous. Plus, any whore that didn't get any clients was either downgraded to servitude, or thrown out altogether.
*** Then again, Teahouse takes place in a fantasy world, and is not bound by the history/present standards of Earth. Still, glamorizing prostitution can have many unfortunate implications regardless.
** The former description of Linneus on the cast page said "He's practically a woman. He wants to have millions of Atros' babies". It's pretty clearly meant as a joke, but needless to say, it wasn't in the best of taste.
** On a similar note, Mercutio is described as "gross". The most he is is ''kinky'', which is implied to be the reason for that description. Add that to the fact that he's yet to receive much in the way of screen time, and...
** After being asked to describe himself, Reed says he's an arms dealer with OCD. This means that every single scene showing his desire for cleanliness is actually caused by a crippling mental illness, but it's still treated like a bizarre character quirk instead of something more serious like depression or anxiety disorder. It doesn't help that his demands to accomodate his compulsions make him seem like a snobby asshole, rather than someone who ''must'' do those things.

** On a similar note, Mercutio is described as "gross". The most he is is ''kinky'', which is implied to be the reason for that description. Add that to the fact that he's yet to receive much in the way of screen time, and...

* DieForOurShip: Lilith. That is all.

** On a different topic, this glamorized version of a private whorehouse seems a little too clean and well tended. ''Actual'' whorehouses were anything BUT clean and glamorous. Plus, any whore that didn't get any clients was either downgraded to servitude, either thrown out altogether.

** The former description of Linneus on the cast page said "He's practically a woman. He wants to have millions of Atros' babies". It's pretty clearly meant as a joke, but needless to say, it [[{{Understatement}} wasn't in the best of taste]].

* The former description of Linneus on the cast page said "He's practically a woman. He wants to have millions of Atros' babies". It's pretty clearly meant as a joke, but needless to say, it [[{{Understatement}} wasn't in the best of taste]].

** On a different topic, this glamorized version of a private whorehouse seems a little too clean and well tended. ''Actual'' whorehouses were anything BUT clean and glamorous. Plus, any whore that didn't get any clients was either downgraded to servitude, either thrown out altogether.

* UnfortunateImplications: As the story goes so far, Lilith's sole purpose seems to be filling the typical role of the evil, bitchy woman holding two men apart that's common in yaoi stories. She has no other characterization, and seems to be treated like an obstacle to be overcome/removed rather than a person. Time will tell if she'll be fleshed out into a character in her own right.

* TheWoobie: Five-year-old Linneus is the Woobiest thing ever to exist, but Rory definitely qualifies in the present storyline.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: For a character that has yet to have a ''single line of dialogue'', Mercutio is wildly popular.

* TheScrappy: The majority of the fandom (if the comments are anything to judge by) hates Lilith, mostly because she comes between Atros and Linneus.