I understand why some people are frustrated with Ariadna. She's weak and can't do anything on her own. However I do think that the way she's portrayed is reasonable because she is a princess and wasn't thought how to fight. We all watched her grow up and she spent her entire childhood playing and eating snacks so I think it would be extremely unbelieveable if she was just able to run the kingdom or use a sword against attackers when she doesn't have the experience.
Though I am pretty upset and frustrated that they haven't done anything to develop her character further.
The missed opportunity I was thinking about was that after Caitel was knocked unconscious they could have used that to develop her character. Keep Caitel unconscious for 3-5 years. During that time as next in line to the throne she could have stepped up as ruler and been taught swordsmanship, leadership etc. She would have learnt to defend herself and live in a world not protected by her father (and asiisi cause he's at war) and it would have been amazing for her character. We would have seen her develop into a strong female lead. Then her father could have woken up and she could show him how much she's grown maybe even reference back to him when she joked tearlier in the manga(when she was younger) how she would defeat him and become emperor. Around this time we could have then found out about what Perdel did and instead he could have said that he thought Ariadna would be a better ruler because she cares more for the people of her kingdom. To reinforce this when she ran away they could have shown her interacting with the people of the kingdom and showing great care for them(dropping hints that she cares for the country).
That's why although I understand she is a princess who spent her whole life in a cage I believe this would have been a great way to turn her into a strong female lead. When I think about it that way I just get even more disappointed in what they chose to do with that whole story line. Don't get me wrong I still enjoy the story and will continue to read it until it ends but it could have been better
Btw if you read to the end of this I'm shocked cause I didn't realise this would end up being this long. I just had a lot of built up frustration from this.
I understand why some people are frustrated with Ariadna. She's weak and can't do anything on her own. However I do think that the way she's portrayed is reasonable because she is a princess and wasn't thought how to fight. We all watched her grow up and she spent her entire childhood playing and eating snacks so I think it would be extremely unbelieveable if she was just able to run the kingdom or use a sword against attackers when she doesn't have the experience.
Though I am pretty upset and frustrated that they haven't done anything to develop her character further.
The missed opportunity I was thinking about was that after Caitel was knocked unconscious they could have used that to develop her character. Keep Caitel unconscious for 3-5 years. During that time as next in line to the throne she could have stepped up as ruler and been taught swordsmanship, leadership etc. She would have learnt to defend herself and live in a world not protected by her father (and asiisi cause he's at war) and it would have been amazing for her character. We would have seen her develop into a strong female lead. Then her father could have woken up and she could show him how much she's grown maybe even reference back to him when she joked tearlier in the manga(when she was younger) how she would defeat him and become emperor. Around this time we could have then found out about what Perdel did and instead he could have said that he thought Ariadna would be a better ruler because she cares more for the people of her kingdom. To reinforce this when she ran away they could have shown her interacting with the people of the kingdom and showing great care for them(dropping hints that she cares for the country).
That's why although I understand she is a princess who spent her whole life in a cage I believe this would have been a great way to turn her into a strong female lead. When I think about it that way I just get even more disappointed in what they chose to do with that whole story line. Don't get me wrong I still enjoy the story and will continue to read it until it ends but it could have been better
Btw if you read to the end of this I'm shocked cause I didn't realise this would end up being this long. I just had a lot of built up frustration from this.