vignette00's manga / #Fantasy(4)

Half-hearted fantasy involving a royal family who has very specific connections with a certain angel. Predictable with a central conflict, if you can even call it a conflict, that results in a meaningless angstfest for the two main characters. Achille was one-note (naive, enthusiastic, ultimately responsible) and admirably makes a selfless decision to give up love in the third chapter, but even though he's supposedly different from his grandfather Grain, he might as well be just a conduit for Grain to spend the rest of his life "touched by an angel," as it were. This is a solid PWP -- personality, what personality? Meanwhile Raphie seems tormented by an "affliction" and a past traumatic relationship, except neither seem to actual register on his characterization. Maybe he cares about "his affliction", maybe he doesn't; maybe he gives a shit about Grain, but mostly I can't understand why he does, or really if he does. Finish all that off with work-a-day and unremarkable artwork and a worldbuilding that is so light it might as well be transparent, and you get the blah sandwich that is this story.