I wonder if he’s happy and I wonder what a happy end for him would look like. Like I don’t know about everybody else, but I don’t think him going back with his family would necessarily be a happy ending for either party as they have now lived apart for four years and like he said when he was talking to the other doctor, he is now fundamentally a different person. I don’t know if that would be good for the daughter and his former wife but I also don’t know if that would be good for him as every waking moment he would have to atone for his actions and he wouldn’t be in the same position as he was last time as he would not be the breadwinner as I’m guessing he cannot go back to Doctor work.
I don’t think the series is going to end saying well the best thing he can do is kill himself, but I don’t necessarily think he’s going to have a happy ending like all the other characters as I don’t think there’s any way to realistically resolve his issues other than him being alone and content for the rest of his life, which I don’t think is a happy ending as they are very clear the impact of community in this story
I need more of maki who is very very clearly not over anything. I like the fact the only time he could’ve had his friends time was that cool and now he doesn’t even have that like he’s so pitiful anc genuinely so sad. I do think it’s interesting that he is very clearly gay in both uses of the word as he likes the same gender and sub gender so he’s like gay squared and I don’t know if the author is going to go in depth in that and maybe a Maki side story or something but despite it the alpha‘s father wanting him to marry Alpha, he very clearly wants him to marry a woman alpha so that means some type of heteronormativity or something is present where are as an alpha you either marry a woman alpha or any gender Omega. Long story short I’m not really interested in Alpha x alpha normally however he is just so deliciously sad and so very clearly desperate to the point where I need to see his resolution.
If that’s the ending for Cliff, then it’s seriously more fucked up and undeserved than any ending that I have seen thus far. I can understand the people who was hurt by OG!FL want to play out a revenge fantasy on her and make her feel what they have felt however to tie cliff into that is absurd and should show how they are no better then OG!FL because he is ultimately a character and I understand the implying that he broke out of his conditioning however, I would also think it’s more likely as the OG! ML the power of the story and the author has over him and stronger than it would be for any other character.
Cliff’s story being one of love making him a monster but also redeeming him would have been nice or even an understanding of how he didn’t wanna be a heir after all so the dukedom could have still went to his brother and he could have become a knight or a homemaker or a artist or something. I’m just so upset that we missed out on such a good brother reconciliation scene that was in the books that we will never get to see.
I still don’t think that man is a good grandfather to Oleg because he only seems to mention him when it’s putting him down in favor of his granddaughter like that old man can eat shit fuck him
Please go back to the possible third couple. We need to explore it. Like I like the first couple don’t really care about the little brat and the red head together but I like them apart but this third couple is interesting. Let’s explore it!
Side stories are here let’s rebuild that sibling relationship and keep it a sibling relationship as well as officially promoting the second Situationship into a second couple!
Kael needs to get with Cedric with Kael topping and Cedric bottoming. This is the best ending for both of them because I doubt they are going to break up the main couple and they both deserve someone super sweet and nice and both of them share traits of the main character that they are interested in.
Something that really intrigues me about the story is how much of it is ultimately about family and that parallels the royal family which is ultimately a story about family deception and betrayal, however I find it extremely curious that The King only seems to care about the former crown press and that his absence only made his single-minded attention on the crown, print more single target, like judging from his behavior alone, you wouldn’t even be able to tell him he had another son and I find that extremely interesting.
For a story that seems so hyper aware of popular tropes, I would hate for the supposed villain to fall flat for such a common of ambition of simply wanting to be the king like I think it would be so interesting if it was ultimately about the family drama of it all and while I don’t want him to be the male lead, I think it would be really interesting if the second prince to parallels the main character, as both of them seem to not fully embody their traits of their family with the MC getting no traits and the second print only getting the eyes, especially when the male lead seems so devoted to getting rid of eye color as a way to tell lineage.
I’m happy that Oleg is doing slightly better and I say slightly because his situation really hasn’t changed that much like yes his father is better but he’s still giving very much victim especially with his word choice but I hope his grandfather shows signs of better a better man as well bc I still haven’t forgiven that rat dirty bastard.
Gus on the other hand has gotten more interesting specifically because he is only temporarily banished to his home and I’m guessing once he is done, he will return because there’s nothing left for him at his home so if he returns, would he be still antagonistic towards Tracy or will he be an ally? And that’s if he survives because there’s always a possibility that the church will kill him or he will take his own life because he really has nothing because the love of our father doesn’t mean shit to him honestly that’s a grown ass man and clearly his son would rather stay there so it doesn’t seem like that relationship would be much of an issue, knowing that his son would be protected regardless of him being there. However, I’m hoping that he becomes the ally everyone thought Ash would be and in doing some fixes his relationship with his family primarily his son and secondarily his father because in the last scene he is shown in he shows regret, especially with how the story parallels how he was greedy for his family sake, and then lost sight of himself. I especially think this would be good for the overall plot of the story as the main character initially mainly wanting a family for her to go into a world where she expects her biological family to hate her due to previous actions and eventually overtime they all grow and shit
I think it’s kind of funny that everyone is kind of like misinterpreting this very clear thing because it’s not that he wasn’t forgiven for following a different guy because they do forgive him that they don’t forgive him for his actual crimes like treatment and embezzlement that’s the issue
If I had to say something positive about this story, it would be the fact that I love all the children in their relationship with each other and even the potential relationship to use even though they’re six years old, because like kid relationships are cute as long as you know not to take them seriously and force them for something they’re clearly not ready for and the fact that ultimately four families were able to be brought together in a way that didn’t get to insane in the MC first family who late husband’s brother still calls him brother-in-law which I think is extremely sweet and I’m glad they didn’t corrupt that and then in the three other families, including ML New best friend son, who seemingly is going to marry into the family
I hope this epilogue shows Cliff’s ending and I don’t care. I hope he somehow his own form of happiness like how he was supposed to in the book
I’m actually so glad he’s getting with someone like it was getting so bad. I thought I was going to have to start shipping him with his cousin I generally don’t know how I feel about the two of them together but they both deserve nice things after kinda being whipping boys.
Additionally, I think the 29-year-olds should fuck each other
I genuinely think this is the moment where we’re gonna see character development from him simply because this is the first time he specifically been reprimanded from aoki who’s opinion means more than the world to him. Hopefully he’s able to start moving more aware of the world without losing the thing that makes him him.
So like what the fuck is happening with ceasar like is he getting redeemed because the author seems to be fairly sympathetic towards him while stating that he’s not going to end up with her so like wtf is happening
Everyone’s like “go Oleg and be the hero” like y’all he’s about to be beaten to an inch with in his life. Do you guys not understand the danger this child is in because no one gives a fuck about him. Like the tonal dissonant is so crazy to me.
So finally finishing this I think the emperor is a fucking liar. He says he was always going to give the throne to Raymond. He’s fucking lying even with the revelation that the reason why she had to be the emperor is because only she had the ability to fix magic is ultimately pointless because they don’t have magic to fix (at the point) which is one of the reasons why he was disappointed with his grandson.
Also, it’s really fucking insane to try and match make two people when one of them desperately doesn’t wanna be with the other one and then to hold something over the other person’s head to try and make it seem better. I know in the end they go over how the emperor was actually a bad person and was really selfish because his whole thoughts were only on maintaining the royal family, but I don’t think they went into him enough. He says he raised Raymond would love but we don’t see that. We see he raised his other grandchild with love but we don’t see him raising Raymond with love. However, we do see them being brotherly until a certain point. I genuinely believe that point comes when Raymond realizes that he is the unfavored child. Jealousy and envy can make you an ugly person and I think is demonstrated here. I understand why Serena turned on the crown prince however, your family being exiled permanently and you being sent to a convent to die can’t be better than just dying.
I would love to hear about literally anything else in the side story like what happened to the emperor what happened to Raymond? What happened to Serena? What happened to the second male lead because it’s been 10 years, but we don’t find out any of that which is kind of disappointing.
I do think for what it is the story is at least thought-provoking when you think about the main villain, however, I do wish he would’ve genuinely had his villainous breakdown when he was poisoning the male lead and really dive into his emotions of jealousy, resentment, and envy which I think could be solved by the second male lead, but I digress
So coming back to this and thinking objectively I am actually kind of mad. They changed the ending simply because Erica being the secret smarter twin would give her something while she currently has nothing. Laurencia currently has two things, Intelligence and love. Erica currently has nothing. In the original ending, L would end in love and somewhat intelligence because the spy not being the prodigy twin, she still genuinely smart, which would go to show that the grandfather was wrong to begin with. E would end up with her intelligence as her relationship is a nothing burger. Both of them would end up with something.
In the new ending, L has both of them. E has genuinely nothing and the grandfather despite being cruel was right. I don’t think the grandfather at any point should be proven right. Now she is off doing God knows what trying to help the alchemist however, how can she help the alchemist if she’s actually not as intelligent and what they need is intelligence. No point in time does the story prove that she’s just people smart not booksmart because she doesn’t interact with people and her main power comes from the fact that she aligned herself with people who took care of situations for her.
In the act of trying to make L look better, they weakened another character and I don’t see how they’re going to be able to build her back up and I think that’s bad writing. She’s not physically strong, she’s not intelligent in a noticeable way in regards to academics or understanding people, she is somewhat cunning however, she’s now a good guy so she’s not going to be able to display it, she is empathetic, but not overly so. One of her main character traits was her insecurity, but in healing her trauma somewhat and lessen that she has developed into a worse character, a character with nothing going on. She is a character dependent on men when originally she wasn’t. That is God awful writing, and unless they give her a fucking gun or something I don’t see how they’re gonna fix it.
Actually, completely forgot there’s magic in this world so I think the only thing they would be able to give her would be a magic. If she somehow became a magic user that would give her a unique enough identity while also having strength that doesn’t come from a man allowing her to stand on her own. Additionally, she could be taught alchemy from the alchemist after hoping them, which could be symbolic of how once she hurt them and now she is one of them, however it seems to be something you’re born into and a semi closed practice as well they don’t make it clear if it needs academic intelligence like other forms of alchemy so it’s a good B option.
Additionally, just so people are clear the reason why I don’t count Erica‘s relationship with the red hair guy as something valid is because only at chapter 80 which is the season two finale is their relationship at a point to barely start the beginning of something possibly real because before that, he was her warden. It didn’t matter if he genuinely cared for her because above all else, he would report on Erica‘s movements to her sister putting him in a position of power over her. I understand how him being in constant contact with her would make him protective over her, especially if she is known to hurt herself physically, and emotionally which he comes to do. However, she would not start having feelings for him because despite being a delusional person, she is not so delusional to develop Stockholm syndrome. Now that they’re more high than even playing ground and he has changed from her warden to her knight could something happen but I still don’t expect it to develop well as you can count their interactions before hand on a single hand so
I think the villains here were interesting however I think if they really wanted to show rugal having sex with someone they should have showed him fucking angel because it’s despite him saying he was in love with the main character. It really did feel like he was just projecting his feelings of angel onto the main character which really plays into the tragedy of his character, and how all of his failures are truly his fault.
The secondary villain, however I think is a bit more interesting due to the fact, he is the son of the primary villain, but like unloved by everyone except the detective. Despite having the very last scene of the series he doesn’t show up for like most of the second season, which is crazy. I think, especially if you’re going to play it where he gets a redemption plus I think it’s crazy for the main villain to have another confrontation with the main characters, but the secondary villain doesn’t have a confrontation with the secondary characters, especially if you wanna play into that contrast/similarity of both father and son kind of having an implied redemption, but like I think it could’ve been better honestly especially again if you’re playing into how the reason why they lost is because they were ultimately alone