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Yesss. I completely agree, in the raws, you could see the anguish he is feeling, he really loved Diana. Now cuz of Athy, he is forced to confront those feelings and he is starting accept her as a daughter.
It’s really amazing to see and actually so much better than the other ones I’ve read (well better written character wise), and it’s so cute as he’s starting to see her as more a gift that was left rather than a reminder of her death.
I think.....I think the king very much loved her mother, and sometimes when a woman falls pregnant and she chooses to keep the baby even if it’s killing her the man will form a sense of resentment towards said child (not all but some) and sadly the king was one of them... I’m reading the google drive translations and you can see the anguish he’s experiencing, because he hates her mother for leaving him, even when he begged her to chose him. And that hate traveled on to Anastasia, however he’s slowly overcoming that and it’s amazing to see.
The best way I could describe his original last actions is- when a woman gives her child away for adoption, to avoid any attachment she doesn’t hold or even acknowledge the child (again not all). And the king did the same, and as a result she was still the baby that his dead love chose over him, so he found it easy to kill her, where as now he’s been forced to acknowledge her existence and that’s why it’s playing out differently.