Finally got caught up and honestly, considering how good the art was and my expectation with that title, it was pretty disappointing. MC & ML both proved themselves to be kind of terrible and pathetic. I think there's a need, when you have a revenge story where you know the characters are going to be morally dubious, to have them at least have tenacity; what we get instead is Reinhardt losing her nerve about halfway through and not being able to commit to one way or another to what it is that she wants and Will be being obsessed but not actually following through with the obsession. I usually love seeing that kind of intensity in a character and honestly I would have love to see it followed through at literally any point; lock her up, politically maneuver her into marriage, kill yourself: anything so he didn't come across as just completely toothless for no reason after he makes some seriously messed up and interesting choices. Granted, when they went back and explained why he was even about her, it was so shallow the whole thing felt pretty silly. Also, I feel sorry for the children- they were born into a bad situation and more or less used to further shallow motivations from their parents, who obviously didn't give a crap about their futures, since apparently getting them legitimized is something they think is important enough once things settle down. Deitrich was the only one with any sense to start off with and I didn't even get to enjoy it because initially didn't trust his motivations and his character was setting off my Suzaku alarm bells. It's not done yet but I don't feel like I even have the energy to finish the side stories so rating it, reviewing it, and keeping it moving.
Finally got caught up and honestly, considering how good the art was and my expectation with that title, it was pretty disappointing. MC & ML both proved themselves to be kind of terrible and pathetic. I think there's a need, when you have a revenge story where you know the characters are going to be morally dubious, to have them at least have tenacity; what we get instead is Reinhardt losing her nerve about halfway through and not being able to commit to one way or another to what it is that she wants and Will be being obsessed but not actually following through with the obsession. I usually love seeing that kind of intensity in a character and honestly I would have love to see it followed through at literally any point; lock her up, politically maneuver her into marriage, kill yourself: anything so he didn't come across as just completely toothless for no reason after he makes some seriously messed up and interesting choices. Granted, when they went back and explained why he was even about her, it was so shallow the whole thing felt pretty silly.
Also, I feel sorry for the children- they were born into a bad situation and more or less used to further shallow motivations from their parents, who obviously didn't give a crap about their futures, since apparently getting them legitimized is something they think is important enough once things settle down. Deitrich was the only one with any sense to start off with and I didn't even get to enjoy it because initially didn't trust his motivations and his character was setting off my Suzaku alarm bells. It's not done yet but I don't feel like I even have the energy to finish the side stories so rating it, reviewing it, and keeping it moving.