I love you! YES! The poisoning shit doesn't make sense! Also clearly the King and Queen are trash! Also clearly they don't know shit. I mean the Queen was like Your brother wouldn't hurt a beast! OH MY GOD! Not to mention sex of the heir doesn't matter here. It's who ever hatches the beast becomes the next heir and the one that doesn't is deemed a fake. As if the Queen didn't birth them at all or basically saying she must of had an affair. I have no doubt in my mind that what ever is going on with the King is the Princes fault! Also his beast also seems odd. Notice it doesn't speak or act anything like Lily. It acts like a cat and that's it.
don't know if it's translations but the queen saying "i do not believe he would deliberately harm you," yea mom, this for stating the opposite like ur so funny
thxs*
This is an obvious case of absent parenting, societal bias, and personality issues.
The prince has been abusing and torturing people for shits and gigs since he was a young child, apparently with no consequence. He’s so blatant that the parents either knew and excused it, or were so uninvolved in their children’s lives and palace affairs that they were never aware of it. Either way, they’re at fault for the gross negligence that could permit such behavior or allow it to go unnoticed. It’s clear that the prince has been violent and coercive for a long time, putting a lot of effort into harming and diminishing his sister, so it’s not surprising that she would develop an aggressive and hostile personality as a survival mechanism. If he’s that bad when they’re both powerless children, it’s pretty obvious what he would do to his only rival if he took the throne. Sitting aside while one child torments the other isn’t creating an equal playing field, it just creates a toxic dynamic
MC may have had an arrogant and abrasive personality and mannerism, but it’s nothing compared to the actual abuses committed by the prince. It seems that she is judged more harshly for superficial flaws than the prince is for sadistic and violent behaviors. There’s no way his behaviors are completely concealed seeing as how openly he says and does vile things. He is a bit better politically and the male heir, but definitely hasn’t demonstrated a better ability to lead, though her reputation doesn’t inspire much faith. Then again, it’s not like she’s had much parental guidance, and had to fight a psychopath tooth and nail for every little thing she wants to keep since she was a child.
The way the poisoning accusation went down actually makes the prince look more suspicious and it’s frankly ridiculous that everyone was fine with how it “resolved”. Sacred beasts are so sacred that they are revered as gods, so any threat or harm against them is treated with great severity. Martina was punished with stripping of her title, life imprisonment, and 100 lashes for failing to properly incubate her divine beast. That was the punishment for accidental/unintentional harm. She was never accused of deliberately hurting her divine beast, and there really wouldn’t be any motive for her to.
In this life, there was a deliberate attempt to poison a divine beast by the prince’s subordinate. A divine beast whose safe hatching is a test to determine the heir, and who happened to belong to his employers only political rival. The mage confessed, but how convenient that he immediately immolated himself. Now he can’t be questioned to investigate who else may have been involved. It makes the prince even more suspicious to anyone observing the situation objectively. The fact that not a single person raised an issue or requested a more thorough investigation shows that Martina’s original punishment had less to do with the severity of her perceived failure than it did her lack of popularity, the bias of the nobles and her parents, and the prince’s schemes to dispose of her.