ian is not brian until he gets all of his past life’s memories and claims it himself. just bc he was reincarnated does not mean he’s the same person.
yo what a horrible show of comprehension skills. ur comment trivialises the characters and story so much its kinda sad. no wonder u don't understand why people r upset.
I don't think Ian is Brian, even if they kinda share names and appearance, Ian is his own character because the life he experienced was very different from Brian's and that's why Ian was so worried about regaining Brian's memories, he had already lived a full life to around adulthood and is his own person separated from his past life with his own wants and dreams, the only person who seemed to really believe in him turned out to only be helping him because of his past life and brought him to a place when everybody expects him to be his past life, that's why we want the flashback to end, we want to see what Ian does in this situation because it's more interesting than Brian's back story, the flashback didn't need to be a year long worth of chapters, we're interested in IAN'S story, not Brian's
always classy to insult people online personally when you disagree with them
it's nice you all want to hear ian's story but clearly that's not the story the author wants to tell so getting mad about it just seems silly to me. there's plenty of reincarnation stories that don't focus on the first life. this is probably the ONLY one that doesn't and that's what makes it special. sol would not have sought out ian if ian was not brian so that's the premise of the entire story. idk why that's hard for people to accept.
not an insult just an observation and did I lie, ur reply very much confirms my comment. If the author is really going to go down the route of "Ian is Brian, they r the same person" that's horrible story telling, it lacks complexity and in the process removes an entire character's identity and honestly I would be really disappointed. if having someone else's memory is all it'll take to remove Ian's individuality the plot of this story would just be a whole bunch of pointless meandering, what's the point of having a reincarnation plot line then? why not just have the story start and end with Brian and sol? ur original comment "ian is Brian THEY EVEN SHARE MOST OF THEIR NAME" is also just crazy and is some primary school level cognitive thinking.
your comments are so filled with kindergarten debating skills I suggest you go back to school bec your brain seems to lack the basics
oh also stay mad and crying over it
Im not trying to be mean or start something, but you're right on the part that this story is different because of it approach, but you're wrong on the first life part, Brian is essentially the first life so it is concentrating on the first original life, but the approach is different because usually the first original life is just the prologue and here it's like, two seasons worth of comic, while the secondary life which is Ian's got relegated to 1-season-long prologue, so yes, it is special because it's disorganized like a Ju-On the curse movie
Again not a hate comment just wanted to say that, and yes Sol only sought Ian because he looks life Brian that's so sad like homeboy though he was finally being freed only to be caged again and forced to get possesed that's so sad
i have read all of this author's works and i think you can have faith that ian's identity will not be erased. it was very clear he was struggling with being labeled as brian and i don't think the author will forget to dive into that issue. so i don't think you should worry too much about an entire character being erased. there's so much left to tell about the second life but we're just not there yet. but to be clear sol sought out ian i do not believe he just noticed they looked similar but it's been a while i could be wrong.
i mean we still have to set all the poor "cursed" people who need to be freed. it's not as if the second life will never be addressed. it's silly to want less context from a story in my opinion. the first life is going to make the impact of the second life even greater. once we know everything i can't wait to go back and read the beginning chapters and see if there were signs of anything that we found out in the flashbacks. for me that's a positive not a negative. idk why people are so mad.
Both dragons are the root of all my problems, neither can forget about Brian, Cardinal BrixIforgor found Ian first and has been keeping him because he also sees him as Brian and then Sol is now keeping him too because he also sees him as Brian homeboy CANNOT catch a break
And yeah I guess the world building part is interesting, could have been given as exposition broken in parts through Ian's own investigation to give his character arc more agency and show him as a capable protagonist instead of dumped and over exposed, like the part long long ago where He stumbles into Brian's portrait and realized the guy is just him with blue hair, and the part where he snoops around to hear the knights gossip and hears that he has to inherit memories, it would also add more spice and mystery to the two male leads, like they're going to show soon probably why they condem magic in the holy empire or whatever it's called so it's not going to be a mystery anymore, we already know why Sol is obsessed with Ian but they did show that pre flashback and that was a good reveal, it makes the reader shocked like woooaaa no way, I think the best thing the flash back did was show that the cardinal is a dragon too.
So I guess yeah, it's the feeling of betrayal, like if you read Harry Potter and midway the story just said woop, flashback time and it was Tom Riddle, and It keeps going and going until the 8 book and then goes back to Harry boom, all mystery gone, no plot twist, no excitement for the reveal when Harry discovers something, you already knew it because overexposure, so it doesn't matter anymore. Idk your stance on HP but I thought it was like, an universally recognizable example that's why I used it.
As you may or may not guess by my overly long replies, I do like the story, I like the universe and the world building and the characters very much, I care about them a lot and wish to see them succeed and thrive or get punished and be miserable, it's just the way the author tells the story makes me feel wronged, you may think the argument "Oh this is Ian's story not Brian's" is silly but that's just my honest dearest feelings, like my brain goes "B-but he's the guy in the cover, I want to see his story not someone else's!" It's like eating an apple pie hoping for apples and getting pineapples instead
I agree, the story has so much potential and I'm invested in Ian and what happens to him. It feels like the boy is being done so dirty by everyone in the story but also the author lol.
Idk if you read it already, but a comic that in my opinion does this right is "The one within the villainess", sadly it hasn't updated since last year （/TДT)/ (And it's not BL I guess)
Ian is never Brian sure they he is the “reincarnation" but Ian and Brian have their own different lives, experiences, and pain. You are just a proof of Ian‘s worry, Ian hates the way that they only see him solely as Brian‘s they never saw him as his own person.
For real it’s not as good as it used to be in the early chapters you won’t have anything to wonder about and people are forgetting about Ian coz they are feeding us Brian instead. Can’t even remember the last time I saw Ian and what he’s doing.
sure if you disagree with the direction of the author that's fine. but the author doesn't owe you guys anything and she created both ian and brian so i don't think she owes either of them more than she intends to give them. and sol has spent centuries caring for and building the world that brian wanted to create and all sol is trying to do is give it back to him. I agree it's shitty for Ian. but until we see what happens when brian dies and until we understand how ian ended up there in the first place, why he has powers, why he was reincarnated, why the brother became a cardinal and is obsessed with ian, why sol has brought him back to their kingdom, it's silly to be upset. for all we know the only reason ian was reincarnated was bc of sol's mother. perhaps he has a destiny to fulfill. we have no idea why any of this is happening but i for one think it's important to contextualize all of that with the past. it's not the author's job to please you guys. the author is telling the story they want to tell. being pissed about it won't change the author's mind especially if you're commenting on mangago where she will never see it.
ya'll stop reading if you aren't invested in the MAIN CHARACTERS RELATIONSHIP. like what are you all doing? they're the main characters. ian is Brian THEY EVEN SHARE MOST OF THEIR NAME.