I love how relatable the so called middle school delusions are. I mean, that's pretty embarrassing but most of us have done it one way or another. When i was like 12, we had to write as a group à fairytale. It was like a graduation thing and for some reason, it ended up being pages and pages long and never ended with adventures including underwear eating ants. Cringe and fun once you reread it. That's the part I love about it, how she just acknowledges her dark past, makes her extremely relatable.
Now onto the part that I like less... the rest of the story. It feels like pure unadulterated pain porn. I understand the mechanisms of it, i acknowledge the necessity of it for the story to make sense but it is painful for a character to be told constantly by everyone around her how ugly, unaccomplished, mean she is compared to her sister. From childhood too. Especially since, if that were truly the case, à villainess would have cut the tongues of staff who belittled her. They literally work for her. How can that be allowed to happen? I totally understand that the perception of the people around her could not change in 2 chapters. But it's been 32 chapters of the heroine being mistreated and left for Last. I mean, if she weren't à villainess by that point, i think she'd have more in common with a Saint that anything else. The way the story progresser, she has saved her sister a dozen times, other people, à whole village even . Nobody else was ever punished for anything and she faces death every chapter. What has the sister done to be called a saint? Saved the butler in her youth. Cool. Our heroine saved Yomi. What seperates them exactly? Her "sins" if you can call them that are of coveting à Nice, handsome guy she was courting first. Doesn't deserve death.
Scenaristically makes sense but realistically it doesn't. It really is painful to read for my heart.
I love how relatable the so called middle school delusions are. I mean, that's pretty embarrassing but most of us have done it one way or another. When i was like 12, we had to write as a group à fairytale. It was like a graduation thing and for some reason, it ended up being pages and pages long and never ended with adventures including underwear eating ants. Cringe and fun once you reread it.
That's the part I love about it, how she just acknowledges her dark past, makes her extremely relatable.
Now onto the part that I like less... the rest of the story. It feels like pure unadulterated pain porn. I understand the mechanisms of it, i acknowledge the necessity of it for the story to make sense but it is painful for a character to be told constantly by everyone around her how ugly, unaccomplished, mean she is compared to her sister. From childhood too. Especially since, if that were truly the case, à villainess would have cut the tongues of staff who belittled her. They literally work for her. How can that be allowed to happen? I totally understand that the perception of the people around her could not change in 2 chapters. But it's been 32 chapters of the heroine being mistreated and left for Last. I mean, if she weren't à villainess by that point, i think she'd have more in common with a Saint that anything else.
The way the story progresser, she has saved her sister a dozen times, other people, à whole village even . Nobody else was ever punished for anything and she faces death every chapter. What has the sister done to be called a saint? Saved the butler in her youth. Cool. Our heroine saved Yomi. What seperates them exactly? Her "sins" if you can call them that are of coveting à Nice, handsome guy she was courting first. Doesn't deserve death.
Scenaristically makes sense but realistically it doesn't. It really is painful to read for my heart.