agreed!! i wish iris had more of a brazen “fighting spirit” type character! she’s going into the knight exam, i expected her to b more “knightly”… plus the ml is pretty boring. would’ve been more interesting if NO ONE could tell she wasn’t arke and instead she made her identity known w her different personality and mannerisms. i would’ve LOVED to see a ml who was on bad terms w arke notice the small differences and fall in love w that! would’ve given us some nice angst (ml loves her but still loathes arke and that feeling causes some problems~) and a silly dynamic. plus i think arke could b a little more complex. if she ACTUALLY did bad things as a result of the situations around her i would’ve appreciated the character dynamics more. like it would b awesome if she became a villain after being accused of witchcraft or smthin. makes her more complex AND it can b a commentary on misogyny and fear mongering! plus would’ve made the “witch hunt” more literal and that’s a bit funny. idk she seems wayyy more like a victim rn i wish she was a REAL villainess!
Wow… I’m so mad for Arke! This Manhwa is frustrating for many reasons…
1. Feels like she fell quite in love the moment she met crown prince?! I don’t mind the „weak to handsome faces“ trope, but I’d like it to stay on the „I appreciate your looks, but my heart is another matter“ level. He’s not even that nice?? He didn’t really do anything?? Sh probably could have solved those problems herself, if he didn’t step in… I was also going to say, he became interested too fast, but considering that it’s very likely that he knew her from the past and she just forgot, I’ll leave that out… tho that gets boring too…
2. Arkes situation: The crown prince, and later MC agreeing to what he said, that Arke is the perpetrator and victim too… from what I see (and I skimmed it a lot, since… I really couldn’t get interest…) she’s more the victim, and less perpetrators… even perpetrator sounds harsher than what she has done? (Tho I’m not entirely sure what she did and what not… spilling tea? Slapping people? Yes not very nice, very villainess like in other Manhwas but… not destroying peoples entire life for pleasure, profit etc???)
3. The bright family: uhm?? I wouldn’t forgive the dad and grandfather easily. Oh you feel sorry now? Are you anxious now? Nah they haven’t done nearly enough and don’t have their redemption worthy of forgiveness. This big noble family, don’t they have advisers on what to do if public opinion is against them? Don’t they ask Arke first what happened, tell her that they will always support her or smth? Also sounds like they never taught her anything about how socializing works in the circle of nobles, what to take care of, no one to follow her or protect her when she is harmed?? You have so much power and influence, where did it all go to?? The father getting extremely mad (the „I look cool and calm but a fire is raging inside me I could k*ll“) look is good and all, but don’t you think it’s too late? The actual person who needed to know her family would have been on her side is not there!!!!!
4. just the fact that she ALWAYS gets misidentified as Arke, and only Crown Prince can recognize her is so frustrating too. It keeps getting on my nerves, and I just wish she’d somehow fight back, but she has no chance bc ofc Crown prince has to come to the rescue…
She seems to be set up as a strong independent woman, but really hasn’t shown much of it or didn’t get the chance too. Also she frkn came for the knight exam, but it’s been mostly about those rumors and stuff. I was hoping to see her more dealing the knight exam things…
Ugh I her and Arke all the best. May Arke be safe and find people who will believe and support her! So she knows she’s not alone!!
If you’ve read this far, thank you very much and sorry for the rant. I just got so mad many times while reading this (⌒▽⌒) I think imma stop here