Tbh I haven't read the novel, I know there are ample spoilers available but I don't plan to look at them.
I like this concept, how an outsider to abuse deals with it versus how the insider deals with it, and I love that it's two conflicting views. To our mc that's his family but ml sees the way they treated the mc and consider them abusers. And tbh they are abusers but he was wrong to go ahead and do "what's best for the victim" without the victim's consent.
I always love a complex portrayal of trauma and abuse, there's no black and white action in a complicated situation
Any time I see the trope of dad hating the kid because his wife passed away in childbirth, all I can think to myself is that I'd be screaming at this mf from heaven and I'd cast him into hell myself when he passed away, like that is OUR kid
Anyways, he's a very cute kid I gotta say
Sigh ikr. I know that sometimes childbirths can be complicated, but if I died from and and the person I married did that to my child? I WILL come back from dead and BEAT HIM INTO IT INSTEAD. I'm not gonna let the child that I give my life to bring into this world to get abused like that.
Man it really is a series where you're rooting for the newest one the most like my guy legit cannot catch a break. I'm sticking around for the mc, it's so refreshing how he's like "wtf" about the sucky things the characters around him are doing and he's pretty. Hope he gets a good ending
If I got isekaid I'd be such a homewrecker because these men are dense and hell and these women deserve better
Tho tbh this is a bit of a guilty pleasure genre for me, I wanna see him realize he screwed up
Like at first it was really funny and I liked how absurd everything was but then we started getting so much interesting plot and now I'm even more invested. Smh and you guys were all doubting this one
Alright just hear me out for this one... I think this story treated the mother's actions right and I say this as the kid of a woman who married someone she didn't want to and stayed married to him, it's a lot easier to think you would break a cycle then actually break a cycle. Like the fact that the margrave mentioned that it doesn't absolve her of blame for her actions feels like it's a good understanding of what the mother did and just kinda how these things happen im real life
She's also a victim of the situation and the systems in place made it hard for her to go against that. But she's complicit to all the things the dad did, she definitely could have fought harder to save the kids
And I guess I also wanted to say I love it when the horrible family is believably horrible and this is believable. Like he's not favoring one daughter because that's his favorite daughter, he's a horrible, money-hungry noble that only sees his daughters as things to be sold. I can get behind a plot that makes sense
Finally someone else with sense! XD
People really LOVE to disregard a person's struggle and their own issues just because they did wrong.
Newsflash: People can be a victim AND perpetrator at the same time. And it's fine to pity them for their problems and even forgive their actions due to it, if that is in the VICTIM's interest.
Especially for women in those times, you simply had no choice but to do as the men said, even your own son sometimes. And that's why women likely often banded together, forgave each other easily and simply understood the other side and hence forgave the person easily.
The neglect of her was acknowledged and not glossed over. So the author did VERY well dealing with this aspect of the story.
I know younger readers might be on the hypetrain to cast everybody remotely not good into hell and agony, but not every villain needs or deserves that kinda treatment. That's simply how it is and how human relationships work irl. Even if people may not like that.
Every time I see his moms in a flashback I feel so sad. They look like they'd be such a happy family
It's my favorite gay disasters being disasters and I love them but please I want to sit them down and make them talk. Mfs need a couples therapist so hard for MY sanity
God Haru is so cute, I want to sweep her off her feet. How do I root for the leads when I'm so in love with this cutie