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I completely agree with you
Although I haven't read this story yet because I want it to have more chapters like more than 100 so....or better if it gets completed soon
But I know the story of this more or less from yt shorts
Well I'm more of a novel reader now so I tend to read completed mangas so I'll probably wait for it to be completed
I never understand people who say that Ethan was a manipulator, hence why he does not deserve her. Have people forgotten who the biggest manipulator actually is? It’s our female lead herself. What she did to Theon was literally worse and if you’re going to excuse her for her actions because she’s traumatized, then you might as well forgive all three of them because they’re all equally fucked up in the first timeline. Seriously, people need to stop treating the FML like she’s a victim only — she ain’t, she was a perpetrator too. And a really bad one too.
Even if Ethan didn’t goad her into all the evil things she’d done, she would’ve 1000% self destructed anyway. The guy did not make her a tyrant: she was already on her way to bloodshed to begin with and he only helped her become more evil along that process because SHE was the one who wanted it and he BELIEVED it was what she wanted because he too is an equally abused soul. It’s not his job to be her psychiatrist and lead her down the right path when he also has no idea wtf he’s doing aside from loving her. How was he supposed to know Dorothea didn’t actually want the throne when she herself also doesn’t know that? He’s not an omniscient mindreader. All he wanted was to make her desires come true and did it in the only way he knew how: by always being by her side and telling her things she wanted to hear — aka what he had been taught were useful skills to survive.
If Ethan doesn’t deserve Dorothea, then Theon doesn’t deserve Dorothea either (you know if you’ve read the novel), and Dorothea doesn’t deserve Theon for obvious reasons. The cycle goes round and round. So if you’re going to forgive one of them, it’ll be very hypocritical not to forgive all three for the mess they caused in the original timeline. And if you say Dorothea has changed but Ethan has not, then you need to realize she was reborn again but with better people around her; Ethan does not. Even if she can move on from her past, Ethan can’t because he himself has no one but her. Dorothea now has a group of people who will lead her down the right path. But Ethan? Who the hell does he have but her? There’s no one around to tell and TEACH him that he was wrong.
So yeah, welcome to my Tedtalk I guess lol anyways I wish all three of them can move on from the past and be happy eventually. And yes, fuck the dad.