she's a young girl who was kept prisoner, abused, secluded from the world and horribly mistreated that was killed BURNED ALIVE in the same place she was kept locked up till she barely turned 18, you know what 18 is? a teenager not an adult 25 to 30-something woman with a full education, carreer, life experience or maturity who died in modern korea and was riencarnated, it's a traumatized child acting like what she is and even worse she's now back to her small and weak 7 year old body, stop expecting her to suddenly cure her ptsd and turn OP as fuck out of nowhere
I think the problem is the trope of the setup she is in. When people see a reincarnator setup they are expecting revenge and a catharsis to all the abuse she went through before. They also expect that as an adult in a childs body she should be making some more sophisticated plans or be a bit mentally stronger than an average child. I totally agree that her being as sheltered and traumatized as she is it is unreasonable to expect her to suddenly be a strong op character with a lot of keen insight but she basically either acts scared or helpless the vast majority of the time which comes off as boring to a viewer that is used to this genre and expects to see her get revenge or do something different with her new life.
She just kind of comes off as a scared cinnamon roll without a mean bone in her body. which for this kind of fluff focused story is i think what they were going for but makes a lot of viewers annoyed that we are 33 chapters in and she has just been acting like a very passive baby lucking into a lot of help. We keep getting reminded she is supposed to be mentally 18 despite all the trauma so we get annoyed she acts like a child. We forget she was basically in a box her whole life so we wonder what the point of making her an adult even was if she isn't going to have any of the mentality of one.
Its just a weird writing choice that just confuses peoples expectations. I think they did it to just really hammer in how pitiful and abused she was without thinking about how its going to effect peoples assumptions of her. I agree with all your points I just think I understand why people are so frustrated with her character.
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/serene_bird/uu/iur_chapter-45/pg-12/
the tattoo on his back is gone
did he have a tattoo to begin with ?
Yeah but it must be hard for the author to do so much good drawing
I love how it looks like their clothes barely fit them yet also fit them perfectly at the same time somehow (≧∀≦)
I was just thinking this. They have the perfect of extra cloth foldage lol
"He didn't tell you, it is his fault" I love the supportive energy but my dude, it's not like he planed for the both of them to fall for each other later on I definitely don't think he thought of anything even remotely close to that happening with someone he saw as a child, also what was he supposed to act like in front of an 11 year old girl he was charged with babysitting??? a demon? a murderer??
also stelle, sweet heart I love you but engagement really? that's is beyond petty and kind of childish and on top of that you're now involving/using zeon for it
THIS. This is the real ass definition of POWER bottom. Isaac is the BADDEST MOST BADASS BITCH AROUND NO CAP.
this man could ak47 my dumbass and I would thank him for it
I'm afraid to even come out as one of the few people who don't hate emel because I can see the hoards of haters coming in but if anything I like my characters with some darkness in them putting that aside I don't understand the constant complainig about him being the ML ya'll know they're gonna end up together right? this is based on the novel, are ya'll just gonna keep on hating on it till the last chapter when the unavoidable happens??? if you're not enjoying it why not just drop this manga? like I just don't see the point on continuing to rant at the end of every. freaking. chapter.
and for the last freaking time they're age gap is not that large it's like 5 years, if ya'll can deal with a 2,000 yo fox, vampire, or demon dating a 16 yo in other then this is just peachy in my opinion
also the people who keep getting mad at stelle for still liking emel, clearly have never truly loved someone, it's hella hard to drop feeling for someone you've held dear for so long, even if they wrong you it can even make you hate yourself because you still like them it's called having a heart
I can only agree with you on everything tbh I can still the countless mentions on their age gap when it was confirmed at the start and I really shipped it from the beginning (naturally with the picture that she is already off age).
I might have probably missed on some webtoons that are like that but I found the couple of a princess and knight really nice and a change of what I've been reading.
So what I want to say is that I'm also one of the few who doesn't really have an issue with any of them and really ship them (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I agree on you everyone hating emel so much, but Estelle on the other hand turned completely 180 in terms of her personality, appearance and attitude. As an FL she portrayed first as a kind understanding , but also powerful woman. Almost perfect even since she had a family that wholeheartedly loves hee and is a royalty. And turning so hateful like that for a man that didn't reciprocate her feelings just disappoints fans. For me if her way of being straightforward was so overly dramatic, it's fine if she hate emel it's just her way of showing it to the people bothers us, so much that Estelle was becoming just a bitter woman.
I don't think people are doubting that they're going to end up together. The decision Emel made is just kind of annoying. From his POV it looks like he was thinking in that "I want to be good enough for her" way but he just left her thinking he didn't want to be with her or he wasn't accepting her feelings. He should have told her to wait or something and told her that he likes her, instead of leaving her confused/mad and then trying to get back on her good side.
yes I get it but the thing with emel is that realistically he makes some solid points, estelle was never really exposed to other guys aside from him and her brother and he prettty much watched her grow up, even if the age gap isn't that much he has a right to feel resposible for her as the older one
the most important factor is that the side of himself he ever showed estelle or more like the emel estelle grew up with isn't fully emel at all he himself knows that and carries a lot of self hatred, ever since she was little I remember this one chapter where he brought estelle a flower he found in the battlefield when she was younger and hand it to her and karl being a the sis con he is told him to stay back because and I quote "he smells like blood" and this clearly shook him a lot because it was most likely a reminder that he shouldn't step his boundary
emel had to go back to pretty much a high society battle field when he came back not only as a traitor to his family but also as someone who aided in the deaths of his own father and brother just to come back and take the heritage he originally abandoned in every outsider's eyes he's pretty much the devil, he crearly had a pretty good idea of how bloody and difficult getting into a good enough position would be that telling her to "wait" or that he liked her while still being under the impression that she's just imprinting on him, for something he didn't even know would work out fully would be insanely in irresposible
he's clearly conflicted and that makes him so human to me, he wants her to be aware of the real him (we still don't know his past before working for the castiellos), he's prepared for her to reject but he doesn't actually want that and it's understandable, but he clearly doesn't like himself, he views himself unworthy of her but that doesn't mean he doesn't yearn for her and I truly love emotionally complicated characters
YEEES, I have noticed that about her lately the thing is I've come to notice that the only times she's cried is when it involved emel in some way or another even when she regained feelings after being kidnapped by that psycho mage the rush of emotions that brought her back were evoked by emem himself so he's a significant emotional trigger for her
so now they're using the boy problem as a way to creat tension in the story but instead of it being addressed the mature way it's like she's acting more like a child than what she was when she was younger and I wanted to use the "she's just a teenager" card to atleast defend her a little but the girl fought a war, uses spirits and manages a county I expected less temper tantrums I guess, but then again that's also fine in a way since she's always been so composed surely there has to be times when she's allowed to emotionally unstable I just think that the "I don't give a fuck anymore" attitude is not the best way to go about it either
Well we can agree that her changes was way too sudden and too much. Still i wish there was much more deserving on Estelle than Emel seeing that since her childhood she suffered and been through a lot. I just wish that maybe Emel should have tell Estelle about his past maybe they wouldn't be in that situation and they can still communicate with each other comfortably.
my home girl is so sweet and supportive she's the best I hope she gets someone to love and care for her
if any character in this lays a finger on her I'm throwing hands (╬￣皿￣)凸
she breaks my heart all the time because while she did go back in time this isn't the classic "I'm a boring full grown average korean women but then died and now I'm a book in a baby/child's body" this is a very young girl who lived a severly mentally and physically abusive life and an insanely horrible and painfully slow death after being imprisoned for years and she doesn't even have a lot of knowledge to be her strong point because all she knew is the little info in whatever books that psychopath decided to provide for her during that time, she was left with mental trauma so strong that it's pretty much disabled her ability to trust anyone or to even smile
even if she was 18 before it doesn't change the impact of how gut wrenching it is to hear such a young girl say "if I'm going to die again I rather it be fast and painless, I don't want to burn to death again"
i'm glad some people understands and didnt keep on compaining about why she is like this and not being mature and stuff... those kinda annoys me like ... did they read the story did they put themselves in her shoes and stuff to be judging about how weak she is ... like the keypoints were being point out by you so im not gonna add it lool
I see a lot of people here complainig about masayuki not being chosen
1ST just because Someone has feelings for your doesn't mean you owe them a relationship nor are they entitled to recieve your affections, not reciprocating someone's feelings doesn't devalue you as a person (or character) just because that person is a "good guy"
2ND let's not forget for as "respectful" as masayuki was, he still forced himself on keito when he was upset, Being heart broken doesn't just give you a pass
3rd while gino isn't free of sins himself, he changed for the better for keito and thus was chosen by him. At the end he even made his standing clear to masayuki while coming forth and stating in a mature and non-confrontational manner that he doesn't wish to be in bad terms with him which is more than I can say for masayuki who literally punched him in the face when he got pissed before
agreed
Agree. I mean, I feel so sad for Masayuki either but it's not like Gino stole Keito from him. Masayuki has never owned Keito, the latter doesn't even have romantic feelings for Masayuki just a bit so how is it considered as stealing lol
AMEN! forcing himself on him was a big no-no! (￣ε(#￣)Σ