Contrary to what I was thinking, she's not being manipulated but actually doing the manipulating, otherwise someone's skin walking her.
Also YES FINALLY throw away that rotting 99% rope Penelope. Yeet it to hell!
Eclis spent too much time with Yvonne already, he's gotten his mind poisoned by his state of hopelessness (which is getting together with Penelope as the duchess)
Though it makes me wonder in the original Yvonne route, if he does shake off his slave status and gets a small noble title, how ever did he get his happy ending with Yvonne? Guardian knight? FEH we all know that's bs with this sort of reaction towards Penelope.
Which reminds me, how would it go if Yvonne does 100% her brothers, Derrick and Reynold? Like she's not gonna actually yknow, marry them or something right?
Imo it's acceptable for Penelope but hoooooly no way..
I'd say admiration too for reasons such as:
First meet: Penelope somehow figured out her way into the secret room
Penelope always puts up a brave front (at least in front of Vinter) doesn't really let herself cry in the open
Penelope wasn't afraid to help Vinter out with the people in the outskirts
She saved the kid he helped even while she put her own life in danger to do so.
(Even though it's like just rescuing him but she had no magic powers)
Okay aside from Winter/Vinter who's currently MIA SIR WIZURD where tf are you?? I'd have one male lead who's more caring (ISH) towards Penelope rather than that fkin Derrick... Have tea or whatever with your real sister who's as cold as a corpse for all I care.
Starting off the topic with Reynold I have high hopes this pink haired man who had the most of my hatred for the longest time (now that's you Derrick) to at least stand up for Penelope (yes I'm Sus of Yvonne that girl why is she unmonitored huh) ONE TIME. I'm just asking for ONE TIME.
Also can a bird or a dragon just drop off Kallisto at the residence? I've been seeing Cedric from the other manhwa and I'm here begging for another blonde red eyed man to appear again
Honestly he said something that probably came from the game. Maybe what had happened all along was that
Since the Marquis wasn't being the character he's supposed to be (say for example if the date between Penelope and him didn't exist, and he went out with the lion mask child and he really got sacrificed or something in those islands,)
As well as how Eclis was frequenting the area, I suspect Yvonne had something to do with having one of the male leads bring her back to the duchy ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
In the game it was Winter, and now it's Eclis (previously he wouldn't have been there until the Duke picked him up from the auction house thing).
On top of that, it does seem like some weird things happen when her mask is off. Previously she was seen as a kind soul helping out Winter with the distribution of food in those areas and when she had her mask it was like she's the one behind the whole operation (I kind of forgot what it was) and getting rid of all the magicians??
Plus with how she's cold or chilled to the bone it could be that she's being controlled (like puppeteering) by a remote body? Her memories of past were erased maybe intentionally when she was kidnapped.
It would play out that she has the affection of all the male leads and the people, and her objective is to always destroy Penelope, but what actually happens after in the original game? Would it have been like there's a one true route and then idk she destroys the empire or something
Imagine if there really were conflicts and like "Oh fk, this bird candidate got his chosen one before me!!"
Or there was a way to actually determine when one would get their Chosen One.
For now we know that the order was likely this:
Kureha's Chosen One, Kiyomaru (though premature)
Probably Feilong's Chosen one, Asagi
(These two first because it seemed that they had more seniority)
Then probably the split between Hao and Nagi as Feilong abandoned his duties,
Between that time Tora came to Wu? Or was it Haruka to Hao first?
Either way it's mostly Nagi was the last one to get Kotone.
But from what I'm assuming, if the sacred beast candidate doesn't get his Chosen One after a while the universe chooses another beast to be the candidate, and they have to keep their regions affairs in order before ascending through bonding with their chosen ones when they arrive.
Makes one wonder what happens to the previous Sacred Beasts and how they're chosen to be candidates. Most likely the divine scale that each one has to do soul swapping for the chosen one to live longer is passed down, and no one else can steal it. But the soul that it hosts can be rejected/accepted.
Yeah but this got me all thinking what happens if there existed other candidates since the crows were like "he's just STILL a candidate"