I really like how you put charlottes feelings into words! Her whole world is being questioned and she’s acting like a vindictive bitch because her whole identity and life is being changed rapidly. Do you think she will become a villain and become how the author wanted ayla to be?
Damn reading this really makes so much sense and I feel pity for them. Also it kind of changes how you read stories like that in the future.
love this analysis! i feel with a lot of characters the readers are quick to hate them and call them a bitch but we need to look at things not at surface value. most heroines in novels have been through hardship, that’s why they’re humble. but charlotte has been given everything without any hardship in her life and she hasn’t grown up mentally since she’s been treated positively since childhood. i hope that she has a nice character arc where we see her change, i’d feel bad if she was forced to live this life that’s so different from what she’s used to
There are honestly two different ways it can pan out - she becomes a vindictive villain who desperately tries to reclaim everything she should have been given, or she has a character arc where she's forced to change due to the impending erasure of the world that our Butler wants. It's probably going to be the first one. Or the author doesn't look too far into their own characters and just makes her a surface level villain lmao. It happens.
Yes I always feel that people who automatically hate characters are just victims of mob mentality. Even though it's just a story, that sort of behavior where you automatically judge and hate characters despite not even understanding everything or coming to terms with their dialectics lends itself to reality and is one of the main reasons cancel culture is so prevalent. I doubt she'll grow, and will probably remain a surface level villain or a more strong villain, but knowing the God in this world it'll be interesting if she's forced to be a good guy despite wanting revenge.
It’s definitely gonna be the first one, once I noticed the how Charlotte emphasize that MC brought a slave I knew she would be a villain. I think it would great if she like had a breakdown but realized her world and the privileged bible she lived in and become a heroine in her own way! Like I think that would be so badass, she could really be a great character and maybe in her right a mc.
Yeah, but sadly when a lot of authors write characters with very interesting character traits with potential, they don't realize that potential.
The next chapter shows Charlotte's extistential crisis, which I can't really blame her for. Ever since she was young everything went her way (because she was the main character), and everyone loved her. Everything was automatically hers. She took it for granted, and expected the men around her to stay with her even if she couldn't/wouldn't return their feelings. I kind of feel bad for her, since her warped view on the world and twisted personality is also the result of shitty writing. Like, come on. When you get everything you're not going to stay humble or think that you don't deserve it if it's your life. You can still be timid, but you definitely will think of you getting everything as the "norm."
After the sorcerer rejected her (He did so because he was originally enthralled with her mana, but after meeting the literal devil himself, he realized that life is too fleeting to be focusing on a woman who won't ever love him and he's only attracted to on the surface level, and is instead focusing on finding his own mutual lover before the world ends. The prince is confused, and the sorcerer is basically like "the emperorer will tell you once you ascend to the throne that there's a dangerous threat lurking, and that only destruction outlives us." It was honestly threatening, he was super calm and collected. It was like he became enlightened.
The Prince praises the sorcerer for having realistic values, and Charlotte's entire view on reality is questioned. She wonders why that's viewed as realistic when it wasn't real life for her, and never had been. She began to question when the constans in her life began to change, going back to recent events - when the Fashion Designer ignored her, or when the Butler talked down on her, but she links it all to Ayla.
I know we're all calling her a bitch, but in a way she's also a victim of the god awful writing that our author wrote. She's genuinely confused because her entire ground of reality has been changed. It's not her fault that she got everything in her life, that everything was focused around her. It's not unrealistic for her to expect everyone to give things to her, whether literal or spiritual or emotional. Because that was meant to happen. It had been happening. When she's confused or mad that's to be expected. She has every right to be vindictive because her entire life is just... changed. And she doesn't understand that she only got that life because of awful writing.
Meanwhile, the prince is gifted with the sight of prophecy, which lets him see the future. That's why he's so violent against Alya - because in his dreams, he sees her as she was originally written - a vindictive, evil woman who attacks the woman he loves for no reason. That's why he expects her to do so, and is always judging her - because he sees her for what she was meant to be.
Once again, this is literally all because of the novel's awful writing. Praise and love being gifted to Charlotte for literally no reason caused her to automatically expect that and view it as her status quo, so when things start changing, it confuses her and makes her mad that her entire view on reality is changing.
The Prince has always been given accurate views of the future, where Alya is the awful villain she is meant to be. But her suddenly changing that makes no sense to him, because why would it? It doesn't follow her previous personality that he saw for himself, nor the personality that was meant to be that he saw in his dreams, so he is automatically mad at her and doesn't trust her because of those two things. He thinks that it's a trick, because that's the only thought process that makes sense. Why wouldn't it be a trick? She's always been an awful and ignorant person, and in the visions she still is. So why is she suddenly a different person? It must be a trick, because she can't actually be a different person.
Anyways, everyone's a victim of shitty writing. Everyone. The moral of the story is that harem series are awful and would realistically lead to a justified sense of entitlement. Yes, Charlotte is assuming everything should be given to her but that's not... unrealistic.