I think she's just scared. She knows the plot of the story and in her mind, she's in a book. I think she's preparing herself because she's afraid the book will continue the plot just how she's read it. I think her trying to "force" the relationship is her way of coping. It's like pulling away before the other person pulls away
huuuhhh, I guess that make sense? but it looks more like shes scared that the plot is different? but the again i still find it dumb that she thinks shes in a book when shes been living in the same world her whole life... plus, even before she realised that Edwin was Edwin, she still thought that they were an otp or smth? like she was excited to see them get tgt ... which still makes no sense
-1. She’s frightened of knowing the story
Anri grew up knowing the dynamics between Edwin and Elze. She’s lived inside that narrative for so long that even though she’s now “inside” the story as herself, she mentally defaults to the idea that Elze and Edwin must end up together, because that was the outcome she internalized. It’s not stupidity it’s trauma, anticipation, and self-preservation all rolled into one.
- 2. Avoiding emotional fallout
Remember how in the original, Elze betrays and poisons Edwin? Anri is terrified of that path re-playing. By trying to encourage them together, it’s less about love and more about dodging emotional chaos if she keeps them supposedly close, maybe the author’s betrayal can’t hit him as hard. She thinks she can rewrite or at least soften it.
-3. Preemptive self-protection
Before she fully realizes Edwin is Edwin, or before he learns she knows, Anri has already built up mental walls. She’s been primed by the story to expect disaster. So even when she’s excited to see them together, it’s driven by anxiety. She’s hoping “this time” it won’t end in heartbreak.
-Why it still feels weird
And yes that’s exactly why readers find it confusing. From the outside, it seems illogical or even disloyal. But from Anri’s internal POV, it’s survival behavior. She can’t help but follow the script she’s memorized because in her mind, the script kills Edwin.
In short, hink of it like PTSD from a movie you’ve watched over and over. She knows how it ends and she’s trying anything to prevent that ending, even if from the outside her actions look wrong. It’s not loyalty to Elze it’s fear of what Elze represents in Edwin’s life: death and suffering
Anri’s behavior is psychological coping rather than stupidity or obsession with the original heroine.
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ahhh this makes more sense tyty :)
why does she keep wanting him to be in love elze? shes clearly the girl who saved him by saying that she loves him or whatever and that she wants to make him happy, but she wants him to be with elze? why? she knows Edwin literally suffered from start to finish in the novel, and that elze was toxic to Edwin, but she still wants them to be together? is she stupid? does she think that the tragedy wouldnt happen? idrc that she thinks of him as a character, if that happened to be, id probably feel the same, but i wouldnt push my fav character to be with someone he will obviously fall to hell with. I really dont understand ??? Will this (can it even) be explained????