I know what you mean but different doesn't mean he's good enough for her! How is he gonna do justice with MC's past? The only thing he's been doing now is forcing his unwanted love and affection on MC when she clearly feels the need to run from it. He's been selfish and still is. It's only right that he be excluded from MC's love interests but no... since we're talking about tragedy tag here they end up together
Like I said, I'm more team Carsein. What I don't agree with is blaming the Ruve now whos fundamentally a different entity for something someone else did. He's not responsible for what happened to Aristia in the past cause, again, it was NOT him. In this life, the only thing was dragging Aristia into a difficult political situation. But lets be clear that Aristia also chose this path herself. If she really wanted to, she could reject all of Ruve's advances. She's not doing that because she obviously likes him. In this way, Aristia is also being selfish by playing hot and cold and not drawing a clear line between them. "It's only right that he be excluded from the MC's love interests" is a prejudice you carry from thinking of current Ruve being the same as previous Ruve and thus blaming current Ruve for actions that he did not commit. That logically does not make sense. If I had been born in a harsher environment than I was, perhaps I would've become a murderer. Am I then guilty of murder because of what a version of me in a parallel universe did?
Very well said sizt
Who you are is based on your memories/experiences. If you make an exact clone of yourself with your memories and all, the moment you each start living your own lives separately and experience different events you will be two distinct entities. This current Ruve is a different man from the one that hurt Aristia. His life has been different for years now. All the things that would've made him become a POS didn't happen. We all have the potential to do good and evil but what we could perhaps become does not define who we are now in the moment.
I like Carsein the best but I'm not going to keep dragging current Ruve down for something he didnt do.