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While riftan is being the typical overprotective ml who can be irritating, I love how despite that, maxi is pushing back and has grown to enough to be as stubborn as him. It really shows how comfortable and safe she now feels with him. And while I HATE most male leads who have his personality type, i kind of love riftan. I would love an ml who never upsets maxi, but I kind of like that he seems written to grow and change instead of being perfect from the getgo.
I get that otherwise there cant being any character development, plus I think he serves to show how maxi is growing too. Him being so protective allows for push back from maxi to show how she is developing to be more confident and bolder. (It kind of sucks that her husband is the one that gives her development conflict for her development tho ) I'm not that mad at him cause I know its from a place of concern, not to be controlling, and he always gives up in the end when she convinces him. Though it is annoying to see how hard she has to convince him and I really wish he will learn that it hurts her, but in the recent chapters it seems like he really is getting it after he compared her to the princess.
He clearly still has his misconceptions about maxi but is getting corrected and starting to accept hes wrong. Hes still doing way too much and it sucks that maxi has to "prove herself" to her husband, but I get hes not wrong to not want to take a noble lady on an expeditions with monsters when they cant afford to be distracted to protect her. Though it was really annoying he wouldnt hear her out, especially since up to this point he keeps making her feel small and treating her like a child. shes grown so he needs to let her do her thing and train like a normal person instead of the delicate flower he thinks she is
To be fair to him though, maxi didnt even have faith in her own shield so what would have happened if it really broke on the expedition if he just readily agreed. He was right to be concerned but if he was more supportive from the beginning and helped her grow her talents, by this point he would have definitely known she can protect herself