I've only known Emma for four chapters, but I would go to battle for her. I know she's angsting on the inside omg. I'm sor tired but EMMMAAAAAAAAAAAA I get you
Mama didn't read him enough fairytales when ne was a kid :(
Whoagh manhwa studio that's so cool!! I love how you made him blonde and pale when he was pretty, but dark skinned and dark haired when he was ugly!! No one has ever thought of that before!! Like obviously, there was always the option of showing us his actual ugly face, but we wouldn't want to turn off our readers by showing them an uggo in our smutty manhwa right? Using a visual shorthand (dark = ugly ) that EVERYONE (well almost everyone teehee) understands is soooo much easier and so clever. It's just so romantic how he kissed him, even after he turned ugly!! Like the most romantic thing since Loving v Virginia.
Rimjob five feet away from a baby is crazy to me, but what do I know
That's why Emily's in the cover art unlike the rest of those mfs
Haha, well that’s the cover of the second volume of the series. All targets except for eckhart have appeared in the covers
I feel like everyone forgets that every one of the MLS had broken her trust at some point. I actually think it's incredible that Penelope cares for her own well-being first and I think she should be more selfish than she is.
Trusting the other characters not to betray her, when they've already broken her trust before and now can be magic manipulated into whatever, is an unreasonable demand to have of her.
Like isn't the entire premise based off the fact that no one ever loved her and that's what will kill her?? What kind of resolution would it be for the story, if loving others was what she needed to do. I'm sure she already loved her family in her previous life, before she understood they'll never love her back. I'm sure og Penelope loved her family dearly, despite it all.
I feel like the other characters are represented fairly, Winter is never framed as being unreasonable. But in a story about Penelope dying if she isn't loved, perhaps reasonable people will stand in her way!
TLDR: Penelope is right about everything and should be more selfish than she is, and everyone should be much kinder to her and you don't get her like I do
see you get itt!! I genuinely get so sad and frustrated when I see people blaming Penelope. Of course she is a flawed character, no one is perfect. Especially after you go through the things she has and is still going through, no one can remain sane but she still hasn't lost it at least. That's literally a whole different world, a game where she dies, she has no one there, literally no one to rely on. Callisto loves her I know but she doesn't know that much yet and given the situation she's in rn, thinking about rosy beautiful love is a luxury because she saw how one li has already betrayed her. Also she's up against Yvonne, a being that's isn't even a human. She doesn't know what to do to get rid of her to survive cause that psycho is brainwashing everybody left and right. She's literally working alone, with no one to even say something encouraging. I'd probably go batshit and slash everyone with a sword and get executed cause TF
You're so right and we're spinning hand in hand in a middle of a meadow rn in my head btw. Her decision to leave everyone seems extremely reasonable to me, because if she can't predict what they'll do due to Yvonne, then it'd be like spending time with a ticking time bomb.
In fact, it makes perfect sense for her to leave *now*. She couldn't before, because she couldn't know the effects of not reaching 100 before the coming of age ceremony, but now she has nothing holding her back.
Same ahahahha found my peopleee
People just act like she has hundreds of options but in reality she doesn't even have a single person she can sit down and share her thoughts with. That alone is enough to make the world a living hell for her. Eclis was like a ray of hope for her salvation but that failed, her family believing Yvonne over her is more plausible cause first of all brainwashing, second of all she's the actual daughter (that's what they know rn). Eclis is a lost cause now, her brother shouldn't be considered as a li, the marquis helps her but that surely isn't love and Callisto offered her a marriage of convenience and said he doesn't love her (he does but he doesn't realize ik but she needs concrete affirmation rn). So ofc she would be hopeless about them too. My girl is literally so brave to be going through all of these I swear. Can't stand any Penelope slander cause that game is literally a horror, survival genre
Oh and also!!! I feel like portraying Penelope leaving the others behind with Yvonne like she's putting them in harm's way is unfair. Yvonne doesn't want to hurt the others, she just wants Penelope to suffer. She only brainwashes to get the other's to hurt Penelope.
If anything, I feel like it's obvious from Penelope's thoughts, that she believes they'll live the life of the og novel if she leaves.
Yeah exactly. And even if she doesn't care about what happens to others, we can't really blame her for it. Because does she really have any fond memory of them? She's still being generous enough to the duke by letting him know about that teacup thing. NO ONE GETS HER
Reading Mr. A's farm with a straight face vs kicking my legs up and down, beating the pillow and giggling like a madman when Mamoru confessed
Lmao same, got me cheesing and all here, and straight laced over there
lmaooo we’re in the same situation
I do ultimately think this manhwa is kind of mid, which is understandable in such an oversaturated genre, but I keep coming back to chapter 22 every couple of month and oh my god. It's just so good. The visuals, the emotions, the dialog. "I'm here to kill you Raymond" is printed on my brain. I think I cried the first time I read it? I'm obsessed with the version of this story I thought about as I read it. I keep thinking about how this story would go if it didn't have to be a romance, but I probably wouldn't read it in the first place if it wasn't. Idk, I just really love chapter 22
I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities with this story, especially when it turns into shoujo romance (when it becomes truly mid)
Yeah, at the start it felt like a really interesting examination of grief, guilt and shame, but then the protagonist has to fall in love and so all these complex feelings are either minimized or used to show how humble the FL is, when I feel like that goes against what she went through
they just kinda shoved all her "annoying" or "ugly" feelings out of the way when it was time for the romance ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌ its a shame