The author simultaneously wants the FL to be weak, hated and abused but also have her be darling, cute, sweet, smart, beautiful and loved by all. They keep talking about how great she is but.... she hasn't even done anything to warrant it? Other than just being a decent person. Like none of her medicines have proven to be effective (the audience knows it it because magic<medicine because this isn't a fantasy story) neither has she done some grand gesture (you could say that her trusting and trying to treat that one dude who tried to harm/SA immediately after she was saved is admirable but that just felt dumb because immediately after he tried to stab her and then ML ended up getting stabbed). FL is also getting her ass-kissed by every "good" character like her handmaid and ML and every character that doesn't like her i.e. her sister are deemed evil reprehensible monsters with no motive other than vanity and hatered towards FL which is fine but I guess I was kinda expecting more from the premise other than what we got so far. Also war general ML should've had some scars would've been hotter and added to the battleworn scary man look they were going for because out of context he just looks like pretty anime boy number 37. (btw I'm not sure if I'm nitpicking or if this is accurate but weren't guys from this time period not supposed to cut their hair because it was seen as disrespectful to your parents to cut off a part of your body that they blessed you with). It's just a genetic "weak" "low self esteem" "abused " and "demeaned" mary sue that was hated gets with a hot hunk of man and everyone sees how perfect she is or else they're evil.
The author simultaneously wants the FL to be weak, hated and abused but also have her be darling, cute, sweet, smart, beautiful and loved by all. They keep talking about how great she is but.... she hasn't even done anything to warrant it? Other than just being a decent person. Like none of her medicines have proven to be effective (the audience knows it it because magic<medicine because this isn't a fantasy story) neither has she done some grand gesture (you could say that her trusting and trying to treat that one dude who tried to harm/SA immediately after she was saved is admirable but that just felt dumb because immediately after he tried to stab her and then ML ended up getting stabbed). FL is also getting her ass-kissed by every "good" character like her handmaid and ML and every character that doesn't like her i.e. her sister are deemed evil reprehensible monsters with no motive other than vanity and hatered towards FL which is fine but I guess I was kinda expecting more from the premise other than what we got so far. Also war general ML should've had some scars would've been hotter and added to the battleworn scary man look they were going for because out of context he just looks like pretty anime boy number 37. (btw I'm not sure if I'm nitpicking or if this is accurate but weren't guys from this time period not supposed to cut their hair because it was seen as disrespectful to your parents to cut off a part of your body that they blessed you with). It's just a genetic "weak" "low self esteem" "abused " and "demeaned" mary sue that was hated gets with a hot hunk of man and everyone sees how perfect she is or else they're evil.