Wow shocker he was never loyal to begin with ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
did you read the novel? is yes, where? I want to read it
Why should he be loyal to a woman he divorced lmao. Plus I don’t see how anyone could still like her after all her crazy shenanigans
He hasn't divorced her yet.
I'm talking about how he first betrayed his friend for her only to kick her to the curb later on. Trash deserves trash
I’m talking about the spoiler they provided where he does divorce her, which you commented on too lol
Well to be fair after reading the novel (it's more detailed) Helios isn't that bad. He's made a shit ton on mistakes but are correcting them one by one. He realizes that he's not only a 'lover' but also a prince. Now regarding Cael, he didn't even betray him to begin with. Cael killed a whole family on his own volition (although it IS true that he did it for the betterment of everyone else) and the whole case blew up so Helios had no other choice but to impose punishment on him. If it's regarding Diana, he didn't betray him either. They were fighting fair and square for the same woman and Helios won. Not a Helios defender though. I still feel a bit icky about him after all is said and done.
Now he's correcting them because he's literally had it shoved in his face by hes on how trash he is. Not because he realized what a horrible friend and prince he was. Remember the time line has changed he threw away not only his friend but a strong and loyal Ally who has been an asset to not only him but the country.
Because of that the whole nation was thrown into chaos and war. He allowed himself to be blinded away from his responsibilities for some love that he isn't even fully committed to.
Also yeah I get that cael killed a family but it was for the betterment of the country. I mean if it wasn't the punishment would have been worse no? The only thing wrong was how he carried it out not that he got rid of criminals.(atleast that's what I've surmised from this I haven't read the novel so I might be missing some details)
He DOES realize that he was a terrible friend to Cael gradually. Yes it took one or two of Hestia's confrontations but ever since she first confronted him about his actions then he's been reflecting, and I don't think that's something he should be hated for. Just because you needed someone else's push to realize your mistakes doesn't mean you're a bad person. To me what makes him a bad friend is that he realizes his friend's pain too late.
Yes, I did mention that he did it for the betterment of the country myself in my previous comment. HOWEVER, he ended the whole family line without an official trial. If we're talking public law, he basically just murdered/assassinated a whole family of nobles. That being said, there was no way Cael would've gone unpunished, mostly due to other noble families' backlash. They would've said that the royal family and Cael were in collusion/corrupt/biased. With that in mind, it was Helios' duty to give Cael punishment as the crowned prince even if they were friends. Hell Cael should've gone through the death penalty but he didn't because of his contributions to the country and their relationship.
What I learned from reading the story is that most of the characters are not just black and white:
Helios punished his friend and married the person his best friend also loved but he didn't do it with the intention of hurting him. He fought for Diana fair and square, and won. He also believed that since he 'got her' he should show Cael that they were happy so that he'd be rest assured that the person he loves was being treasured and protected by the one who got her.
Diana lived her whole life in church and never experienced hardships. Her whole world was the church, Helios and Cael. It was inevitable that she would grow extremely attached, dependent, and possessive of them. They were all she ever knew.
Hestia's goal was to make Helios and Diana pay for what they did to Cael but even after Helios apologized and repented through his words and actions it was still not enough for her, Helios repented yet she still wanted him to suffer, almost sadistically. Even in the novel Cael begged Hestia to stop because Helios and Diana already apologized and he forgave them but all she wanted was for them to fall and suffer to the point of being unreasonable. (Unreasonable due to the fact that the victim already forgave the perpetrators yet she still wanted to go further, even after she was asked by the victim himself to stop)
I understand you are saying they are better now. But for hes she has seen the world where they both turn there back to caels suffering to the point he trys multiple times to C.S until he finally succeeded in her home.
She is also traumatized by this. Yes cael has forgiven them, but for hes it was far to late and for her it seems insincere. because neither ever made the effort to even reach out to him throughout his suffering despite saying they are close friends.
For you it may seem unreasonable for her to act that was once the victim has forgiven them but that's because in this time line hes prevented the everything that was to come by being there for cael. Something his friends should have been doing.
They are too selfish and self- involved. For a saintness I'm sure (my prediction) is the reason she is losing her powers. She no longer cares for others only her self. She doesn't even go help the people she is trying to drag the nobles to be like. She has turned her back on everything she stood for and at this point just self-indulgent doing as she pleases with the title princess Saint.
That's because they didn't even know that he was suffering at the time. From what I remember Helios probably did try to visit him in the original timeline too but just like how it is in this one Cael shut him down, and unlike now, there was no Hestia to help them reengage. In my opinion, although they had flaws and wrongdoings, they're forgivable. Taking revenge against them to a certain extent is okay, but in the novel where it went more on detail about what Hestia wanted to do, she already went a little over that line. They weren't consciously hurting Cael in the first place, and it wasn't as if they killed him with their own hands. They never wanted to hurt Cael, they just accidentally did so while following their beliefs/feelings and didn't notice it, which is a fault, but not bad enough to warrant complete destruction. Even after they apologized she still wanted to harm them more. She was even mad at Cael at some point because he defended the crown princess from being deposed. Not only that but she also realized in the novel that the revenge she was doing was not entirely for Cael. She was also trying to take revenge on them relentlessly because without it she believed that she would have no other 'purpose' in her life, something which Cael worked hard to fix.
They're (mostly Helios) trying to be better but she ignores their efforts and proceeds to just slap their faces over and over again and remind them of their wrongs every single time they try to enact change.
Helios divorces her. She's sent to a nunnery/church to spend the rest of her life in while Helios remarried and had a child fairly quickly with his new wife.