JessFS's manga / #Tragic Past(42)

Dropped at 108, case Lippe grew up to appropriate other people's culture.

Honest Thoughts (may have spoilers): Just finished binge reading and I don't how to feel... I love Athy and her antics, her inner reactions (specially when she's thinking about Claude), her personality, everything, I really, really want my baby to be happy. About the other characters, I like Ezekiel, but dislike his low-key obsessive behavior... Lucas is annoying but I feel like his and Athy's personalities go really well together, really hoping for this ship to sail. And about Jeanette well... she's is... meh... I don't know, I don't hate her, but don't realy like her either (I do like the fact that unlike other manhwas of the genre, her personality is still the same as in the original book - and that she's not the only one -, author was consistent, but also managed to add depth to all the charactes without butchering the storyline).. In the beginning I hesitated a lot to read it because I saw some things about Claude, but now that I read it, even tho I think he's foolish af, I kinda understand why he did what he did, especially after he started to remember about his childhood and all, when you connect everything we were shown about him (abusive stepmother, caring brother during childhood, that somehow became a jealous and psychotic monster as an adult and that hoe of a fiancé), it becomes obvious that he loved Diana more than life (i mean, he prefered to live as corpse than cope with a reality in wich she was no more), loosing her was the last straw, and evem tho it doesn't justify his actions, I can see his pain and sympathize.

This obsession of the male lead with the main character is just... he's advancing towards a 6 and later a 11 y.o. and the author portrays that as if it's natural and ok and I don't even know how to express, like... I don't care if he's only 4 years older than her, it doesn't make it ok. Their relationship and also the "heroic" disposition of the ML feels kinda forced to me, I don't know, their dinamics just make me really unconfortable. Oh, and there's also that annoying cliché where the ML is just breathing, but just that is enough to make all females in 500m fall in love.