In the light novel Rashta had any blonde/ attractive maid "taken care of" because she was afraid they'd steal Sovieshu's affection from her, like she did to Navier. Plus any maids who were a part of her assassination schemes were killed afterwards so nothing could be traced back to Rashta...
ML's people: We'll exploit you in using the name of friendship and comradery yo persuade you, having you believe you have a choice in the the matter in whether or not you'll serve us. Plus, we give you basic human necessities (but jazz it up a little) to make it seem like we REALLY care about YOU and not your ABILITIES, so that you'll fight against your former home country for us.
FL's side: THEY TREAT ME SOOO MUCH BETTER HERE, I'M ACTUALLY BEING TREATED AS A PERSON! Maybe living here won't be so bad...
(╯°Д °)╯╧╧ No matter what spin they put on it, she's a captive of an enemy nation. If she declined to help them she'd be executed, meaning her only value to them is her power. The ML is her captor and this "romance" trope is ridiculous(〜￣△￣)〜
SORRY EVERYONE, I'VE BECOME CYNICAL IN MY OLD AGE! ╮(￣▽￣)╭
First it's "I'm not gonna be scared anymore"
Then immediately
But doesn't that clothing store sign look like a stick figure storyboard of a murder? Why do the melanated people in these stories always look so ashy?
So, she lost her mother at a young age and had to "mature quickly" but she is shown to still behave childishly. Her whole demeanor is off considering that she is a duchess/ comes from a ducal family (I guess like a regal bearing?). She comes off as feeling more like a commoner/ low ranking noble who is mistreated by her family (Timid, or unsure of herself). Why is she suddenly so naïve? She was well loved by her father, and it was never mentioned that he neglected her, so why did she cling so hard to this supposed "love" for the prince (just because he was occasionally nice), and just blindly believed in him? With her father apparently a key player in the noble faction, how was she so ignorant of everything? (i.e. the competition between factions) Was she a shut-in with no friends? What about relatives from either side? Is the Emperor a tyrant? Even if he's been ill, there's no way Viktor and the other guy(can't remember his name) could just scheme all/ get away with that shit unless the replaced all the Emperor's people with their own (which would have taken a few years at least, to avoid suspicion). How did the church get that powerful? Even if they had the support of the Imperial family, without the support of the nobles, they'd be a paper tiger....The church is only formidable with the support of the commoners, so why not create a different temple or adopt another religion to keep their power in check? Oh and I'm still lost on that "your only sin was love" bit...
Damn this is a long-ass rant!
I'm sorry this story doesn't feel hashed out to me, it's missing SOMETHING and I don't know what it is...(maybe more backstory, but that could be coming later) ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I'm not downplaying her shit origins but...
Y'all know she's been killing all maids ESPECIALLY blonde ones because she fears that they'll do to her what she did to Navier...oh wait am I spoiling the story?(⊙…⊙ )
You get an oracle from God, telling you that you f'd up, and that you're given a second chance to find the real saintess, but you've done jack sh!t because "everyone deserves a chance"?!
So if she just so happened to return unexpectedly, or y'all get found out for another reason...wouldn't y'all be accused of treason and executed anyway? What's the contingency plan?
If the Church is distancing themselves from the priest, wouldn't they technically be able to reject his visit based on the fact that he's lost his backing as a representative of the Church?
If he went back in time before he became an esper puppet for the government, and she died effectively ending their bond, how are they still bonded? It's no longer the same timeline and the bond only lasts until "the brink of death". The Fl's a different person now, even if she has the same soul/spirit...
How do you get mad at someone pretending to be someone else, when you've done the same thing? How does she plan to protect Farmé from the repercussions of impersonating her, if she can't even stop an engagement she doesn't want? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR INTELLIGENCE?! Or at least their common sense, Farmé had a lot of that in the beginning...
I hate how being kind/good-natured is always made to seem it's like synonymous with being a doormat. She literally went from one situation of being a workhorse, to slowly being taken advantage of yet again. We know they're gonna find out she's a saint, and then manipulate her using some boohoo sob story to become THEIR saint instead. And of course because they're INSTA-FRIENDS and the prince is handsome, she just gonna walk right into another crappy situation. On a side note, why tell someone who's LOYAL TO THE FRICKIN JACKASS that just EXILED YOU, WHERE YOU'RE GOING!?!??Also, using the SAME NAME AND NOT AN ALIAS?? Are they also using that innocent=stupid trope too?!
I thought she was raised being the crown princess!!!!
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His army already invaded/ ransacked their country and took it over. If they have a child together, (even if there's a slim chance that she's not actually related to the princess, but knowingthis trope she'sprobably a bastard child of the King) because she shares a similar appearance to the princess, the child could be be used to claim regency/sovereignty over the kingdom. (づ￣ ³￣)づWho could refute such a claim, if all her closest aides are dead?? And when he finds out she's not the ACTUAL princess!! Her life and anyone one else's are no longer of value, then he could just burn the whole kingdom to ashes...maybe I'm just reading too much into this... ╮(￣▽￣)╭
He's only RECENTLY been showing up to places where criminal activity has CLEARLY been in the works for several YEARS (that efficiency/comfort in which those dudes were carrying out their day-to-day tasks speaks for itself) . I don't see how he'd be THE MASTERMIND, involved maybe, in charge....I wouldn't think so...(づ￣ ³￣)づ
