Plot twist

So coming back to this and thinking objectively I am actually kind of mad. They changed the ending simply because Erica being the secret smarter twin would give her something while she currently has nothing. Laurencia currently has two things, Intelligence and love. Erica currently has nothing. In the original ending, L would end in love and somewhat intelligence because the spy not being the prodigy twin, she still genuinely smart, which would go to show that the grandfather was wrong to begin with. E would end up with her intelligence as her relationship is a nothing burger. Both of them would end up with something.

In the new ending, L has both of them. E has genuinely nothing and the grandfather despite being cruel was right. I don’t think the grandfather at any point should be proven right. Now she is off doing God knows what trying to help the alchemist however, how can she help the alchemist if she’s actually not as intelligent and what they need is intelligence. No point in time does the story prove that she’s just people smart not booksmart because she doesn’t interact with people and her main power comes from the fact that she aligned herself with people who took care of situations for her.

In the act of trying to make L look better, they weakened another character and I don’t see how they’re going to be able to build her back up and I think that’s bad writing. She’s not physically strong, she’s not intelligent in a noticeable way in regards to academics or understanding people, she is somewhat cunning however, she’s now a good guy so she’s not going to be able to display it, she is empathetic, but not overly so. One of her main character traits was her insecurity, but in healing her trauma somewhat and lessen that she has developed into a worse character, a character with nothing going on. She is a character dependent on men when originally she wasn’t. That is God awful writing, and unless they give her a fucking gun or something I don’t see how they’re gonna fix it.

Actually, completely forgot there’s magic in this world so I think the only thing they would be able to give her would be a magic. If she somehow became a magic user that would give her a unique enough identity while also having strength that doesn’t come from a man allowing her to stand on her own. Additionally, she could be taught alchemy from the alchemist after hoping them, which could be symbolic of how once she hurt them and now she is one of them, however it seems to be something you’re born into and a semi closed practice as well they don’t make it clear if it needs academic intelligence like other forms of alchemy so it’s a good B option.

Additionally, just so people are clear the reason why I don’t count Erica‘s relationship with the red hair guy as something valid is because only at chapter 80 which is the season two finale is their relationship at a point to barely start the beginning of something possibly real because before that, he was her warden. It didn’t matter if he genuinely cared for her because above all else, he would report on Erica‘s movements to her sister putting him in a position of power over her. I understand how him being in constant contact with her would make him protective over her, especially if she is known to hurt herself physically, and emotionally which he comes to do. However, she would not start having feelings for him because despite being a delusional person, she is not so delusional to develop Stockholm syndrome. Now that they’re more high than even playing ground and he has changed from her warden to her knight could something happen but I still don’t expect it to develop well as you can count their interactions before hand on a single hand so