i see this in media a lot and unfortunately i also see it in real life. the overgeneralisation people are prone to do when they’re brainwashed into their elders’ bigotry gets me so bad. i hate the whole my bastard uncle killed my legitimate parents so i will also treat you a bastard daughter like shit storyline. because its an artistically lazy at best and flagitiously ignorant at worst attempt at characterisation. (you see this a lot in fantasy. eg: my parents were killed by vampires ergo i will kill every vampire to ever exist like yea bro commit genocide and drive a species to extinction this will in no way perpetuate generations of looping cycles of violence producing countless assholes like you who think the indiscriminate killing of any people justifiable so long as they hurt you via the constant reproduction of victims like yourself. youre so right.) (and this is not an anti-revenge message, dont get me wrong, i think you should get to kill the asshole who killed the mother you love. but thats almost never the case. instead theyre killing a bunch of vampires who got nothing to do with them just because theyre vampires. like ok you sound like a cop. die.) how, in the most genuine fuck possible, does one piece of shit illegitimate child make every illegitimate child equally complicit in his crime? do you fucking hear yourself?? a fully grown man and he doesn’t even have the mental capacity to ponder? to question?? to hold space for fucking whimsy???
whats more important to note about this is not the way in which this flimsy hot bag of air storyline attempts to excuse his feudalist prejudice via trauma, but the way it ultimately didnt even matter. because sure it might have excused, if youre dumb as a rock or naive as a doe i suppose, the beginning of their relationship, the schemes he orchestrated, but he married her bro. he lived in the same house as her bro. do you know how hard it is to actively ignore the existence of someone you are married to, share a house with, and fuck often? really. super. fucking difficult. it requires an extreme level misogynistic inhumanity through which he viewed his own wife for him to be able to continue living that way for several years. literally drawing the curtains close at the sight of her. the comments make it clear that we all hate this man and for that i am glad but i think its important still to label the ways in which he used like her like a sex object then exclusive womb, literally reducing a woman down her functions like an animal (vitriolic misogyny). and the way the story excuses him in order to, i assume, assure some semblance of a future romance in some capacity (also vitriolic misogyny).
its not just the character but also the people who created that character, who give that character the leeway to be excused of all his crimes. because the cleaning house and actually looking his son in the fucking eye is that. excusing his crime (because accountability is to be held responsible, to bear blame in essence, and he didn’t do that did he? no he just killed everybody else. how predictable). he neglected her, dismissed her, lied to her, forced her, abused her and held her captive. but its fine now because he killed the people who did exactly as their master had done and treated her like shit. what did he think was going to happen? the body moves with the head. you should not be allowed access to such power and be characterised as a brilliant schemer if you are so dead behind the eyes and rotten in the brain and low of intellect that you could not see the ways in which a head of house’s mistreatment of one person enabled their mistreatment by the hands of everybody else. none of it even means anything because shes dead now. but the story, i believe will attempt to make it matter by bringing her back into the hellhole she despised so greatly that she drank poison to escape from like fuck! god gives my girl nothing!!! and sure hes grieving but thats hardly suffering in my opinion, youre supposed to fucking do that anyway. if shes just going to come back and hes just going to get everything he wants in the end and the story is just going to make it out to be that shes happy and that’s all that matters then its just another cishetero patriarchy propaganda piece trying to normalise the women end up with their children’s father fantasy. and most of us here i believe have seen in our lives the numerous ways in which that is just pure fiction.
the main reason that i wanted to leave this comment was to say that us here raging in the comments, wishing this man pain and everyone wondering how the story is even going to progress, is ragebaiting in its purest form. this is how the author manipulates you into consuming a story that has no fucking weight or worth in any way. i know because ive seen the people’s reactions on webtoon and several other manga forums where this story is being updated. this is not to attempt to police what anyone is consuming, i cant stop you nor do i want to. this is just to say that the reason youre reading it and the reason i read it, is because we’re being actively manipulated into engaging and i think thats worth saying.
the official translation is literally so trash. i am always grateful to jujucat for feeding the class but why is bestie juju having to pay for genuinely one of the worst official translation i done ever seen? like sorry are we seriously sticking with boy when they are having raw sex in a few chapters?? knotting and everything??? (╯°Д°) ╯
moonflowergem would have never done this to us
everything by garamdal is so boring. the premise always promise so much and the actual story is always a let down
we need to all grab a garden shovel or a fucking gun and free my girl
the premise is complete crack on fire but there is actually a lot of potential for the story to explore the genuine power of friendship in the way that we all know a good friend can better save you from seemingly the worst despairs when we are much more likely to search for that saviour in lust and romance and disappoint ourselves even further iykyk. my point is the insane level of depression and suicidality sion expressed by killing the hildegards every single time has made the whole story so far about fear (his pain battling the evil identity / her murder) and grief (her future potential [dreaming of reaching 90] / his familys future potential [dubbing the hero cassion after his brother]) thus his growing obsession with her (because she performs emotional labour wow how revolutionary) as well as the introduction of black haired red eyed boy will crush all of that potential underfoot to pursue some half baked bitchass romance (im not going to explain to you that no one should fall in love or pursue a relationship with someone that has killed them seven times / someone they have killed seven times. you should know that from like common sense) so whilst i can only see this story as one with genuine depth if the main characters do not fall in love, its clear where the story is going…(￣ε(#￣)Σ
there is so much of this story that just did not make sense to me. 1) why they fell in love or what they fell in love with because they seem to have just clung onto each other for survival like what did zachary love if not pussy (since she was fifteen no less,,, kill him!! i need him hung and quartered, i need him gunned down in the streets like a ceo) and what did she love if not the future in which he existed thus she did not suffer (as much)? what annoyed me about the tone of the epilogue was the narrator acting as though this somehow became a marriage of love when it is still very much a marriage of convenience. this is just two people, abandoned by their family, trauma bonding and for some reason we’re calling romance. lets be so serious. 2) the antagonist was the second prince but how is her father not the ultimate villain in all this? if he was just remotely fucking for real he would have thought, being a man of paper as they so claimed, damn i should write to my daughter, that my wife died to have, which i sold like livestock, because surely her coming home to see people who dont fucking hate her guts would not for some reason nullify a marriage?? is that not basic math or simple logic or common fucking sense oh my gods. i need this man to be thrown at the sun i dont want a molecule of him to remain. the fact that her father didn’t even know she was upset with him to me displays the depth with which he did not even consider her to be a person because even if the subject in question were a dog and not a child i still would have visited something known and precious to me for eleven years. if he had empathised with her grief and anger for a single moment, im convinced that he would have drowned. 3) is more general but i have always questioned the cishetero patriarchy not on a ‘moral’ basis at first but more on a logical one because how does it make sense that women cant inherit titles when the children comes out of them? “you can never trust that the child belongs to the man because you never know where the woman have been” men claim to scorn a woman’s sexual history but you leave the title to them when they fuck anything thats remotely warm? you dont need a paternity if you can hear the screams of labour through the door babe. this is my problem with the patriarchy, its fucking stupid. yall sound like the dumbest person to have ever crawled to earth.
ceasar slitting his throat because leewon tried to break up with his is a) classic manipulative tactic of an abusive relationship but also b) he should have let him lmaoo. pick up the gun babe ill even cock it for you say ahhh
Aaahh♡
gabriel is so annoying to be honest. he is the definition of those uwu im just a babygworl people when in actuality he is merely a man incapable of acknowledging his capacity for evil because he has this whole holy knight of the holy empire rotten chip on his righteous fucking shoulders that makes him habitually situate himself in a position of innocence so that he can never see himself guilty. the level of delusion required for his character to function disgusts me. more than that, the way gabriel is interested in ariadne is so jail like why are you a nineteen year old looking at a fourteen year old like that when even her husband who is much closer to her did not register any sexual interest until he saw her as a fully grown twenty year old?? brother eughhh
this story reminds me of that tweet thats like “sometimes people exist to do the most horrendous inexplicable shit to each other then die #wutheringheights”