Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly binged this and enjoyed the humor! But the prince after-chapter sits different with me. Like basically Ibelin just goes with the only option left that’s into her, never pursuing anyone, never showing character development or even lack thereof. It was such an important moment that I wanted to see just a glimmer more of. Ibelin is a consort (aka wife) and not empress (can rule) and seems like she’s pregnant and has a whole palave it wounded like, but the prince is like laughing about latte making fun of the rabbit for some reason, like it broke his reality and gravity that surrounded Ibelin and its like he never wore off the spell of Ibelin and they exist in a polite relationship? I hope not but idk—It would have been nice if Ibelin learned to love or try to connect with others—or at least expand on the scene after latte confronted her about the whole “protagonist” thing instead of a cut-forward that she was okay with her life being only a consort (wife) instead of ruling empress. Like was she still full of the feelings of jealousy and hate or did she overcome them to live her life? We don’t get that closure. The prince is never expanded on as a character, which makes sense to some degree as the webcomic is about turning expectations and tropes on its head. And yes, he is almost just as cookie-cutter as Ibelin, existing in the story without much depth, but the scene where he remembers the rabbit somehow broke my heart, like he is still searching for something real and wondering if he was just in love with an “other-worldly being” or not. I feel like everyone got an after story and their uncle except for them, good or bad.
In some ways it’s poetic because in some ways, Ibelin went from being the one character Latte’s entertainment and life orbited around, until Latte became her own protagonist and Ibelin became the minor character in Latte’s story since Latte expanded on her life as more than a spectator of another's, and accepted the world she lived in as reality than a story she was reading and spectator of. I truly see the poetry, but somehow I feel at least the prince deserved as smidge more like Kenneth?
Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly binged this and enjoyed the humor! But the prince after-chapter sits different with me. Like basically Ibelin just goes with the only option left that’s into her, never pursuing anyone, never showing character development or even lack thereof. It was such an important moment that I wanted to see just a glimmer more of. Ibelin is a consort (aka wife) and not empress (can rule) and seems like she’s pregnant and has a whole palave it wounded like, but the prince is like laughing about latte making fun of the rabbit for some reason, like it broke his reality and gravity that surrounded Ibelin and its like he never wore off the spell of Ibelin and they exist in a polite relationship? I hope not but idk—It would have been nice if Ibelin learned to love or try to connect with others—or at least expand on the scene after latte confronted her about the whole “protagonist” thing instead of a cut-forward that she was okay with her life being only a consort (wife) instead of ruling empress. Like was she still full of the feelings of jealousy and hate or did she overcome them to live her life? We don’t get that closure. The prince is never expanded on as a character, which makes sense to some degree as the webcomic is about turning expectations and tropes on its head. And yes, he is almost just as cookie-cutter as Ibelin, existing in the story without much depth, but the scene where he remembers the rabbit somehow broke my heart, like he is still searching for something real and wondering if he was just in love with an “other-worldly being” or not. I feel like everyone got an after story and their uncle except for them, good or bad.
In some ways it’s poetic because in some ways, Ibelin went from being the one character Latte’s entertainment and life orbited around, until Latte became her own protagonist and Ibelin became the minor character in Latte’s story since Latte expanded on her life as more than a spectator of another's, and accepted the world she lived in as reality than a story she was reading and spectator of. I truly see the poetry, but somehow I feel at least the prince deserved as smidge more like Kenneth?