What ruined everything wasn’t one villain, it was a chain of misread meanings. Miguel treated the early Canaria plan as pure political logistics and never considered the personal human fallout; efficiency to him equaled correctness, and before he fell for her she was just part of leverage, not an individual. The FL herself stayed silent and endured instead of saying that her discomfort came from the environment — she believed love meant “not complaining,” so she never separated her fear of the dog, the butler, and the social circle from her feelings for the husband. The husband then misinterpreted her quiet fear as rejection of him personally, and because he never asked directly, he trusted his interpretation instead of clarifying, so he reacted from wounded ego rather than data. The king, operating on a utilitarian view of power, treated the Canaria plan like a chessboard and never accounted for how destabilizing people emotionally could destabilize the entire chessboard in return. Even Vicenzo and Alfonso, who were confident pillars of the new republic, assumed that institutional stability alone protected them, and didn’t anticipate foreign monarchy interference. In short, no one is innocent — but no one’s “evil motive” was originally what the fandom projects; they all made the same cognitive mistake: they believed their own interpretation of someone else’s intentions was true, instead of verifying.
What ruined everything wasn’t one villain, it was a chain of misread meanings. Miguel treated the early Canaria plan as pure political logistics and never considered the personal human fallout; efficiency to him equaled correctness, and before he fell for her she was just part of leverage, not an individual. The FL herself stayed silent and endured instead of saying that her discomfort came from the environment — she believed love meant “not complaining,” so she never separated her fear of the dog, the butler, and the social circle from her feelings for the husband. The husband then misinterpreted her quiet fear as rejection of him personally, and because he never asked directly, he trusted his interpretation instead of clarifying, so he reacted from wounded ego rather than data. The king, operating on a utilitarian view of power, treated the Canaria plan like a chessboard and never accounted for how destabilizing people emotionally could destabilize the entire chessboard in return. Even Vicenzo and Alfonso, who were confident pillars of the new republic, assumed that institutional stability alone protected them, and didn’t anticipate foreign monarchy interference. In short, no one is innocent — but no one’s “evil motive” was originally what the fandom projects; they all made the same cognitive mistake: they believed their own interpretation of someone else’s intentions was true, instead of verifying.