Y'all are stupid. He tried to kill himself. Many times. He has been hurt by the people he trusted the most. And about Killing the duke, it was kael doing crown Prince a favor too, which he took advantage of, and abandoned him when Diana criticised him for it.
Hestia helped him from stop being suicidal, which he is mighty grateful for, but he's not a fighter. He wants to move on from them, and if possible, explore the feelings he has for hestia. But hestia is different. She is so OBSESSED with him that sometimes it feels like he's not even seen as a person. Calling him bias and favourite, than talking to him as a person. Like some parasocial fan kinda way. She is doing her own revenge, than what kael wants. But he won't stop her, since that's what she wants to do. His way of seeking revenge is cutting the emotional ties with crown Prince and Diana, not bringing whole country to doom.
Hestia is not being taken advantage of. It's just that her pursuits give him advantage, not caring what he wants. Like no hestia, he doesn't wanna ruin diplomatic relations of his country with others just to make Diana and Helios look bad. Even if he did allow her, he'll be the one cleaning up the mess, since he is crown prince's subordinate.
Y'all act like not letting her ruin the country is a bad thing. He did good. She was ruining a country over something even kael doesn't want. He's been hurt by love, and is willing to give love a chance again, because of the feelings he has come to have about hestia, who is kinda objectifying him, not seeing him as a person with feelings, and disregarding his feelings all the time. You'll see more of her disregarding his feelings in the novel. I swear I wanted to pull her by the ear and tell her to see him as a person, not some idol for once. He's living breathing next to you, how can you treat him like this?
Dear, I see you onto shits these days but you're reading too much into things. I say, Kael is not a bright person and it shows. Who goes act and become love blinded, disregard his own future and eff off himself at someone else's house? Kael. And who goes all depress? He's him. It's actually the consequences of all his actions leading up to this.
And I say, Hestia is not from the same situation as everybody else. She basically have stockholm syndrome, I swear to god people think they could become on par as someone from total diff space and time and act nonchallant about it. She's not like them. She live with techology and science and not shit saint and fantasy.
And Kael totally went off with his understandings. Hestia time and time again in her monologue indicated that she's doing it all to make Kael happy. 'Ya know I don't think I simp for fictional characters because I want to be with them, lol, who goes out and rooted for Naruto because they want to end up with Naruto. None. It basically just unconditional love and wishing all the best from that character.
That's why in the end, Hestia wants to go back because it all seems pointless in the end. I always believe that someone has to work hard for their own happiness. That's why in conclusion, Kael is a meh character.
If he dies, he died. If he's love, he loved. What a standoffish character. Clearly, he's a very weak character. I hate people reading too much into his character, babe, you go all out this way. But I say, Kael does't care as well. Haha
I'm not coming for Kael but this is my opinion and on whatever you could arguably understand Kael's situation is. I just felt like he could be given more depth than be a passive character that he is. But in my overall conclusion, he's a meh character.
I know people here are just agitated on how non-responsive Kael character is, after all, we are reading this for entertainment. And Kael ain't giving that. Both Korean and novel readers would agree. You can't possibly argue about it because in fact, Kael is THAT character.
And honestly speaking, Hestia's feelings are also ambigous all throughout the story. And I don't feel like what she has for Kael is something romantic and love. That's why she's also quite a victim here.
And I felt like the sense of "Bias" is always coming into picture. After all, Kael is not totally blameless, he in fact murder a duke and for whatever reason is brain dead. He doesn't look like it, but Kael is possibly not that intelligent. (In all sorts of reason since the beginning of the story).
I'm also quite favorable towards my bias and could possibly do anything that I felt like benefial for them like what we do when we engage onto fanwars online. But in reality, we're of no help to our idols. It's actually hate vs hate.
If you realize that your idol doesn't really care if you protect their image, I feel like I would be very dissapointed as well just like Hestia.
And Kael not pursuing Hestia on a same level she gave to Diana is possibly the reason why people don't like him. Just because Hestia is favorable towards him, he still should not push anything foward as much. I think Hestia in this story is cornered (her fault tho), being too favorable towards someone could blind you and give others too much impressions as well.
Kael took advantage of that and he's happy, happy, which is too one sided. It's f*cking funny. He went like "we can just be happy together muah muah", and I felt like Hestia just went "I guess this is love and I live for him", bruh. I knew Kael don't know Hestia as much. He's pushing his feelings onto her. At the same time, Hestia is too favorable towards him.
Fans actually are selfish and act on their own initiative. Hestia now how to live for the consequences of her actions. Which is to live with her bias, arguably might not be what she envision. (I felt like bias is in fact not that deep. It's not love). Ps. I also won't like to date my idols.