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omg i'm so pissed off, i thought author for the 2nd season understood the importance of having a villain with duality that isn't purely evil ESPECIALLY in her case where she has been formated a whole life to be the empress (but guess what, it has been stolen by a selfish man who didn't even try to communicate and just abandoned her because he was "scared" of standing on his ground).
and it started good, letting us know she CAN be a good mother (like any toxic parent who switches between a loving persona and a ~cruel one) and, if we are being for real, the things she is warning etienne of, are 100% TRUE. the 1st season really tried to paint her as if she was this overthinking overcontrolling psychotic bitch that didn't love her child but only the potential title he could bring, AS IF they haven't been living basically as a duo for most of etienne's life ! she is bound to, at some point, be genuinely attached to him even if things didn't start well (which is once again due to her whole education where she has basically been brainwashed to serve her husband the emperor and assure the royal descendants). that's why, as a CHARACTER (and not as a person) she is my favorite because she really is the only one with depth and we can see she was really carefully thought. i really liked the start of the bedroom scene where she spoke to etienne switching from affection to wickedness and showing how her actions can be overnecessary and explaining WHY she actually is overcontrolling, and almost in a sense apologizing inconsciously to Etienne for that shit. Yes, she do loves him because it's her child, but she loves him wrong and i find that very interesting, and i hope it gets developed later in the story.
now author had to turn her incestuous out of nowhere. idk what's fun in that because it brings NOTHING to the story ?? i also hate how they are trying to make the emperor seem like a genuine person that etienne is bound to forgive at some point as if he wasn't as shitty as the mom and actually the catalist of the whole story !