It's baaaack!! And I FINALLY got to read the ML's meeting with his Crown Prince papa!! (They'll have to pry my belief that the CP is his birth papa from my cold, dead fingers). If he is, then he's the Crown Prince's only child, and it'd explain why the Crown Prince gives him puppy eyes and tries to win him over, haha. Papa wants his adult baby's attention.
Oh wow! Is that a theory of yours? That would make perfect sense if CP was his father and why their relationship is the way it is! During their meeting, it seemed like he wanted to spend time with Kainel so bad but decided not to over stay his welcome.
SAME, HIGH FIVE.
I also find it cute (and kinda tragic too) how both of them play it cool. Like it's a big deal that ML is his son, but neither bring it up, perhaps bc of the pesky politics involved. My head cannon is that ML doesn't want the baggage, so his dad reaches for every excuse to make his life more comfortable. I used to think that the ML must be clueless. But it wouldn't make sense for him to go on a mission everyone else gave up on, to rescue a crown prince he had 0 connections to.
Leaving aside all other debates: anyone noticed Seth ALSO had an awakening as a god, that he forgot everything about? Do you guys also feel that means the theory that Seth before awakening as a god might have had a past with Osiris, which he later forgot all about, could be growing a bit stronger?
I thought it was just because that was thousands of years ago.
Seth is really old, so he might have forgotten.
But now that you say that, is not an impossible idea that something that he forgot happened before his awakening.
I don't think he ever had anything with Osiris, but this idea of "his past that he forgot" is really interesting.
I think they might have been closer friends than they were later, but not actually lovers.
Honestly, I'm more curious about his relationship with his parents; particularly his mother (Nut- the goddess of the night and sky). She has been mentioned a couple of times now (in a longing manner) and it makes me wonder if the reason why Seth is so obsessed with the notion of family is that he never received love from his parents. This could have also fuelled Osiris' obsession with Seth if Seth only received love and attention from Osiris, he would have become extremely dependent on him. My theory is Seth was super dependent on Osiris as a child and made Osiris his whole world, but as Seth got older met more people and became stronger he grew more and more distant and independent and this is what set Osiris off and triggered his obsession. He also possesses red hair and eyes which are considered 'a cursed colour' and 'the colour of blood.' So I wonder if the red is meant to symbolize his origin or his future (like was his birth the sin or is he the forthcoming of sin kind of thing).
Honestly I don’t think this is the case. It’s implied with Isis’s scenes that he’s younger than her (and likely younger than Osiris) in terms of ascension. It seems like Isis took on the role as a caretaker and maybe even a motherly figure to him (some of this is implied in the story with how close they were and her flashbacks while some of it is also based on special FAQ stuff that implies she played that role for him).
Just left a comment saying something similar (I theorize Isis played a parental role in Set’s life’s based on what we know of their past relationship before Osiris raped him). It makes sense that to a demi-god Set they were like parents and even with the awakening those feelings lingered before slowly fading.
Given what we saw with him and Anubis it’s pretty clear this story doesn’t shy away from pseudo-parent-child stuff either. It’s plausible that part of why Osiris desired Set was him basically trying to rekindle that feeling of having him depend on Osiris.
Me too. I guess the four of them were really close as siblings and friends,
That's such an interesting theory and it makes a lot of sense.
Your theory of "Isis playing a mother role in Seth's life" makes a lot of sense, specially based on the last chapter we just read.
The fact that she decorated an entire temple with Seth's history and kept all of his letters shows that she actually was really lovely to him before everything.
Also that scene, where she thinks about exposing what Osiris did to Seth to show Osiris' real face to the other gods, but stop from doing it when she sees Seth and thinks he will feel humiliated, show that perhaps, they had a strong bond before all that mess happened.
Anyone noticed how Isis was totally Seth's Number #1 Fan?
She covered her own temple with records not of her own story... but his. Lmao.
She reminds me of my mom covering her entire apartment with my baby niece's photos
I'm so sad for their relationship. Fucking Osiris ruined everything.
That made me EXTRA sad. I understand Seth's heartbreak, realizing he razed his sister's gift and love for him to the ground with his own hands...Osiris destroyed their siblings relationship....
Yaass finally some happiness! The real world isn't perfect but at least it's somewhere where things aren't set in stone, you can fight to make changes and things won't just completely go back to how they were (yeah, even with her parents: coming clean means she won't tolerate crap anymore, and they won't be as comfortable playing favorites).
Why the heck are his managers so dumb and unproffessional... Straining his body to drop to a lower weight category in just a month, when he already has a potentially career-ending injury?? The ML shouldn't just fire them, but sue the bunch of them for giving fatal advice that could be last nail in the coffin, for his career... WTF are they all smoking??
My theory:
Seth himself ALSO went through the same process of forgetting all his memories from before he first became a full god... and that past, that Seth forgot once he turned into a real god, is the reason Osiris is obsessed with him
I dig it. I will hate Osiris no matter what tho lol
Babes.... you really on to something
I never thought of that (〜￣△￣)〜
The more I read this the more I feel like the prologue isn't one bit true, just the guy being a completely unreliable narrator out of feeling heartbroken at his supposedly "unrequited" love... Once you realize that, you realize he's just being dramatic out of feeling hopeless, and thus we can't take any of the "mean" things he says seriously, at all.
So now it turns out JK's not so "experienced" as to recognize the obvious... I see what ur doing, author. Not sure I'll fall for it, though