It's not him only ever clearing obstacles, he reinforces self-control, consideration, empathy, and the innate positive traits Diana already has. He is still a siscon, still caught up in his own obsession to clear the future, and has so many weaknesses and Diana gets to be her own active agent in affecting Cain (like she's so precious and the message that children are a bundle of potential and possibilities is so heartwarming).
Besides, teaching her to show a facade fitd the nobility status (and a lot of the parent nobles in most fantasy stories...esp the "elegant and wise wife being secretly as skilled or even better that knights or were previously adventurers before being a noble wife"). Got me so excited that I was stunned by the "recommendation page".
i just hope that in some chapters their parents will understand that it's okay for their children to be anything other than 'a proper noble lady & gentlemen' as long as it's something right & didn't bring harm to anybody. so that their children didn't have to deceive them forever, cause isn't great if the children also get support from their parents? (｡•︿•｡)
With the way Cain had been dealing with the prince's parents, I think he's done the key steps to also make sure their hidden growth can prove to their parents that they can do both as young children who kinda have little say against authority. The parents are as supportive as they can be, but as nobles, they don't want their kids to be "unlike a Noble" (like Cain's emotional outburts against the prince despite having a valid concern, or Diana showing signs of unreserved assertiveness that would otherwise cause mayhem).
Since this work is triggering as it is, let me just embrace that indirect manifestation of what I tried to do but never did. It almost, if not fully, makes me envious when lovers die together. Romanticizing shit like that but dying alone is just so pathetic that maybe it wouldnt be so bitter if youd fine someone as broke as you to breath your last together.
And that's also like a way to subtly remind me how many people he's met and been part of his life all these time (to think he'll meet more is a beautiful wait in the future)
Kinikilig ako pucha ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
Kagigil kayong dalawa huhu
I'm ready for the wedding candies
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1. The time travel already hacks into the morality and social scrutiny of age gap (esp one so daring like this one) but the execution has me forgetting lmao
2. It's more about a two people chained by their past and has now wrecked it all with a proud middle finger
3. It's just exhilerating!! The raw thrill that i feel woth beriko's way of drawing and showing hpw theor characters free themselves
4. It says fuck you to the brother who imposes a way of living, not out of true concern, but out of selfish desire for control and dragging others to live the way they do (lowkey how i feel about a lot of things tbh haha)
I liked the desperate alta, the daring ile. But then it became a trope of separation, marriage, and amnesia with a sprinkle of whatever Toguto does for these idiots. For Slen and Toguto, there's this flatline. An intensity is apparent with Slen's way of doing things and how low toguto's eq is. But the emotions it began with just decreased, i dont even feel satisfied that Alta and Ile became together because Ile became more expressionless. There is also little artistic drama for Slen's possessiveness... the 2nd couple became a "fine, let's deal with them". No confrontation towards the king was it or whoever that old man was.
I actually saw Ile’s change as a poetic role reversal. At the beginning of their relationship, Alta was vulnerable and sensitive as Ile tried to protect, teach, and support him. After he lost his memory, Ile seemed a bit delayed and he had a lot of repressed emotions, and when they met again, Alta was the one who helped to guide him through it. It felt like a full circle moment
I see, i mustve expected a proper climax instead of a "cinematic silence" because the tones are so different even as a reversal in my pov.
Flowers spilling out of your guts
And now horns breaking out
Now why cant i think of pretty and poetic ways like thst instead of thinking about constipation HAHAHA
im rather interested about how they'd deal with the foreboding horns, tho.
So idk the fuss abt stepsiblings, minors, and other taboos ╮(￣▽￣)╭ when he literally wants to kill everyone and traumatize Mai. This is like, every freakshow unleashed, unhinged content. You dont have to be morally questioning it coz then, what you even doing here HAHAHA (but ppl's bottomline for fiction in an all-taboo genre ig)
It started cliche, then continued to dig deeper into the shallow stab it made until it fully pierces your soul and smile at your own killer.
SPOILERSSSS AND PERSONAL ESSAY LMAO
This story is driven by the EVERY character's strong emotion instead of the plot (and the line is vague because of the "law of causality"). Every SINGLE one of them are stubbornly aiming at something which makes their ends so satisfying. The process for Eris (like did we even learn her actual name, or did i just forget? A reintroduction wouldve been nice) to get home was complicated, I was honestly confused. The mental leaps of Hubris, Jason, and Alec also make them the most toxic men LMAO. They hear so many yeses in a woman's no. Helena is actually well written because she managed to strip away her pretenses yet also showed that she is truly kind despite her mom's "keep smiling" advice for self preservation... It's neither "im just dense" nor "white lotus" acting. Despite Anakhin being the ONLY decent man in this story, it highlighted how among those who desire something and was somehow met by a woman, they have their due diligence to respect their opinion (granted he is also at the extreme spectrum of devotion, but in this world of extreme blindness, he's perfect). It's kinda apparent in the Emperor and Empress ngl. The emperor made a mistake yet stubbornly tries to hold on to the Empress, and in his last attempt to receive his wife's vengeance, he accepts dying for her (WITH her most probably coz that fits his selfish guts lol). Also, even Eris shows that Selfishness of even requesting Anakhin to die with her.
At the end, everyone had a strong desire for something. Medea says the most accurate quote which drives a lot of what the story is about: Men made the rules, they dont need to "break" them.
They had the upperhand in being direct about their desires while women have to bid their time because even being an Empress didn't help a mother save his son. She was still a wife. Maybe her only power as she realized was using the emperor's 'affection' to finally deal with him and her both.
It's just sad how much of a domino effect it is that despite saying Men made the rules, it's also a matter of women having to acknowledge their own power that is so entangled with a man's. Their power to affect men (this is why we have manipulative women,no?), the power to affect their child (as a mom, the empress caused alec's attachments), the power to support another woman (the maid being a key to having her mistress' wish to be granted or even Helena consenting to Eris, like bruh. And eris trying to support Helena's choices).
TL;DR
Every character had a desire so strong that they begin to source out their power. Men would have obvious powers as "men make the rules", but women, in their most desperate, will bend and break those rules with a power that persists as much as it was suppressed. And I love how "dramatic" the story was, really pokes fun of "women are so dramatic with their grudges" but then you see all men but anakhin going "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO??".
This!!!
In the beginning it was so cliche that I didn’t want to continue anymore, but god it got so intense and I’m so glad I finished it
See the little baby and youll be swallowing your words, i HOPE. Coz what the hell are good intentions if you dont bother talking to the person and instead leap out to ruin his happiness?
yeaaah, if u wanna help, u need to know the problems first from the person ur helping, not just from ur own speculation