ayo give our man a chance. i think in the first chapters there was image of him and tia as adults and he honestly looks so refreshing there (๑•ㅂ•)و✧ all this time it's mostly actually been about tia maybe we'll see some of his character growth in the upcoming chaps
I totally agree with you wit!!! the Kpop character design treatment. And it not just Perez who suffers this, most of the men in the story (and other stories)have these clean cut hairstyles and default to tuxedo/military Victorian suit styled outfits.
But I also understand the treatment??? Because they would be sporting mustaches & beards and ugly bobs, tights and bedazzled codpieces. A mustachioed Perez would look so much older than Tia and by our modern sensibilities we would find it uncomfortable to see.
But I think the author is doing a good job of balancing the modern and the medieval fashion with the flourishes and texture of fabrics. Because no one needs to see codpieces. And we all know the shitty men in the story are gonna go around peacocking around.
I don't dislike Perez, but everyone besides him has such an interesting character design. The artist goes through the effort of recreating these Medici like dresses, totally immersing you to the story's period, only for Perez to show up with his 2020 k-pop/ can't see though bangs haircut. I think if he was more expressive, it wouldn't be so striking, but in this chapter he glares at the queen, someone who just nearly forced his one true love into a marriage with someone else, someone, who's likely an enemy, and his face doesn't change at all! You can't just put blue gradient on a guy, type "glares" next to his face and expect it to mean anything!