He should genuinely leave his sister’s side. He wouldn’t bc she is the main character but he should. The reason she shows “love” to him only to stop his later actions. She doesn’t genuinely care for him like how the story wants you to think because she has been manipulating him the entire time almost akin to Stockholm syndrome bc he is so brainwashed that when he finds out that his sister has been lying to him his entire life, he is just going to forgive her like the good dog he is. The whole story they treat him like a nuisance in the way of their love and lives together and it’s so sad that he will never be happy in a way that doesn’t center people who won’t do the same for him.
Also, in addition to just the weirdness surrounding that incredibly toxic relationship. Class relations is also extremely weird and unsettling due to the fact that they try to make it seem like people who are born in poverty, and who are like you know, suffering under oppression and starving are villains for asking for a lot from the church. Granted, I think they were asking for a little bit too much right they were asking for this woman to essentially die for them right but I need people to understand that’s like they are actually being asked to die by the powers that be all the time like they don’t have any power, and they barely have enough food and a literal Saint is in front of them and she’s a noble which means she has money and the literal ability to make most of their problems go away. They did become a bit too relying on her. I can totally see why they would because they are literal peasants. And the fact that the answer to their demands is to completely remove, the Saints blessing from the people and singly only give it to other nobles like her and the royal family is crazy like they should’ve rebelled or just left. They should’ve had a mass migration genuinely. Like the fact that the nobles legitimately think that no bless oblige is enough for the peasants to live off of is crazy and truly goes to show how privilege and arrogant they are. Like the occasional glance from a Noble isn’t going to be enough to feed a family. The people also should’ve stopped believing that the church will come save them and become a more atheist community which Is fairly similar to what really happened in situations like this when the church made it clear that they were no longer going to save the people. I just feel like it’s extremely weird to blame you know literal peasants for flip-flopping on the scene when all that truly matters to them is who is going to be helping them at that specific moment. Faith and nobless oblige doesn’t feed stomach. Actions do.
Even if you look at it like objectively, it is just weird to write about peasants being at fault for you know their situation. I don’t know. It’s just weird. The story has really good ideas and concepts, but the place where they choose to go with them is insanely disappointing.
You worded this perfectly.
Sooo true ! Worded so perfectly too
Only on lysandro part btw ! the peasants ones was what they sow to each other imo..
When it comes to the issues with the peasants, it’s just weird to me to even write about it like my problem isn’t that they don’t give what they deserve, but it’s just weird to write about a system where the peasants are bad and they all deserve to suffer for what they did to the poor little Noble girl who the saint. Like I just find it, objectively weird to blame peasants for the fate of a noble. I understand that a lot of these authors who write European fantasy with princes and Lords and ladies don’t understand class relations what you can see how they always make the white lotus a commoner and they always say “stupid commoner don’t you know proper etiquette” which is definitely something, but I don’t think I ever seen a story that explicitly goes “you know who the real villains are? the peasants” like that interesting to me but in the worst way possible
Like usually the person I feel the worst for is the second male lead who would be the crown prince in this case. His wife who doesn’t really love his is the main cause of his problems. His best friend, who he found out his actions lead to his attempts, treats him like an annoyance. Said “best friend”’s wife hates him but due to her powers he has to keep her around which she uses to her advantage to make his life worse sometimes via blackmail. His father seems to prefer his best friend over him. He is slowly losing power and his mind with no one truly on his side.
I truly feel for him because even at the end the person on his side is under the duchess like someone please save him. Like how Hes came to save cael. He needs someone to come save him but a happy end isn’t in sight for him (at least one I don’t think is happy)
no bro. emperor wasnt partial at all plus you reap what you sow.
well seems like you pity helios. so in advance tell you , you are in for a rollercoaster ride cuz helios about be pathetic and then we will get his redemption arc.
ps: ignore my spelling mistakes
I think the way the parents move is genuinely so interesting because after they do something negative I’m left here thinking “oh they just don’t care” but then they prove they do. Like when the father sends him away I’m thinking he’s only using his child as a pawn for diplomacy like when he tells him to make friends to strengthen diplomacy but he also told him that so his son isn’t lonely in a strange land all by himself.
Also the fact that almost all the adults tell him to rely on them since they probably see that he’s would be incredibly lonely without his sister and assistant
I understand why people are mad that She won’t set hardline boundaries but like she’s very clearly someone who gets taken up by her whims so I don’t think she’s going to be setting those boundaries for a long time to be honest simply because she gets so excited about an idea she completely forgets what is socially acceptable.
The advice his friends gave was such bad advice I think about it often like no you actually shouldn’t confide in a complete stranger about your family secrets
I think his parents are so strange in the way they were like “if you ever committed crime, I will not hesitate to throw you away” like that’s an insane thing to say to a child
bro, I think it's more of their reputation at this point. ch13, he clearly thought that her behavior is unfitting for a noble, for now it's okay only cuz she's a kid but he still think it's wrong.
So if she got caught cheating on a test, in a mostly noble school with others who are the norm of nobles or better doing the test normally. it would shame them greatly as to say that she is worst then all of them since she even has to Resor to cheating and even dumber to be have gotten caught doing so.
smacking their faces because they 'raised' her, given her 'education' and is her parent.
forgot to add, that there is commoners in there too who gotten in for talent/smarts(scholarships).
So if they clearly didn't cheat or is smart enough to have not be caught doing so. SHE, as their daughter, is worst then a commoner that is lower status and can't even eat with them without it being short show. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I think the thing this story does best is make it very clear help this is very much a family tragedy no matter what angle it goes which is why some of the things Callisto says well seemingly sweet has no weight even if he’s right because like why would a family want to assume that their daughter tried to kill the other one? From either side. They don’t wanna think Penelope tried to kill the pink haired girl, but they also don’t want to think the pink haired girl tried to kill Penelope to that there has to be a third answer because both of them are the daughters of the family at least to the younger brother and the father. Because if A or B were the right answer, they have to say goodbye to a daughter they desperately don’t wanna let go of. This story may have a romance, but at its core it’s a devastating family tragedy and there’s no happy ending insight.
They haven't even confirmed that Yvonne was truly the lost daughter. They were willing to side with a commoner who they had no idea where spawned from
For real
I mean, yeah, but at the same time they know. Don’t forget Penelope’s chosen for her specific hair color, which is rare. Plus she looks like them like come on
I really hope the dynamic eventually ends up getting flipped where are Leo is mad at JJ while JJ is trying to win him back
The MC is going through a whole different plot then the rest of the characters and it’s insane