
“Well, we can’t marry each other”
The fact you even thought of that is putting up red flags, dude. I have no issues with a brocon/siscon relationship, but if their relationship gets any more… intimate, I’m gonna have to dip.

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they get introduced when MC & bro go back home fore summer break? and the royal family come to visit (with Prince who has a crush on MC)
...MC wants nothing to do the royal family & MC's bro supports here.
some stuff about visiting the local temples and playing tour guide when MC is kidnapped
...........ML = a dragon who has when living in MC & bro's territory who was pissed about the deforestation (thats why he OG "kidnapped" MC- MC later claims she willingly went w/ him to calm bro down)

You know what? I’m happy the brothers couldn’t condemn their fake sister. I’m happy that the years of growing up together didn’t mean nothing. I’m happy that their love wasn’t conditional on Amaryllis being the child of light, because it means their love for Ashtarte isn’t conditional on her being the child of light either.
Yes they messed up. Yes they don’t deserve Ashtarte’s forgiveness. Yes it’s not a satisfying end. But they had real love for a monster in human skin, and I think that counts for something.

I think the same. They are already trash for how they treated Ashtart.
If they turned their back on a "child" brought to "life" from their father and whom they loved all their lives, they would be the most disgusting things ever! It would mean that they truly believed and followed the known prophecy even though they said their stance was against it.

My hypothesis for why the FL’s alleged trauma responses (i.e. avoidance, low self-esteem, paranoia) are so annoying is that it’s not clear what triggers her. If the sister was present, we would get it because we know she’s evil. If the ducal family was still neglectful, we would get it because we know that’s bad.
But neither of those things are true at this current time, so the FL‘s flaws feel less because she was forced to be this way by external forces, and more because that’s her natural personality. That makes her less sympathetic and gives her less room to grow out of her flaws.
The story needs to quickly either bring in the sister or show what happened in the previous life that makes the ducal family so bad. As it is right now, the FL is paranoid about nothing.
From what I’ve seen so far, Loreina is genuinely more compelling as a character than Sienna. I understand why Loreina is the way she is (greed, entitlement, her parents) and how that connects to what she’s going to do next (be a total scheming bitch) to get what she wants (power, status). Meanwhile, Sienna makes no sense to me and I don’t even know what it is that she wants anymore.
To be fair sienna never asked for reincarnation like other people do. So it makes sense. she doesn't want anything, except for things to not go how they were before. She doesn't even care if she is part of the dukes family. In fact at the start, she wanted to avoid the duke all together.
If she doesn’t want things to go how they did before, Sienna’s already won. She’s a Named, and officially entered the Nacht family. Even if Loreina also gets adopted, there’s no way she could still use Sienna as a maid. So why’s she still fighting?
As for avoiding the duke? Maybe she didn’t ask for reincarnation, but she could at least plan an escape or a business or anything long term like those characters do. But let’s give her benefit of the doubt. Sienna was just acknowledged by the emperor as a quasi-royal, so why didn’t she ask him to take her in? That should have been her big break, earning the favor of someone stronger than Nacht.
For someone who hates the duke so much, she seems perfectly comfortable living as their little princess. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
No way asking a royal family to take her in is a stupid move. She died knowing everyone have big ass expectation on her and she thinks shes a failure. If the royal family take her in thats because shes of use for them not because of familial reason like Nacht who went to adopt her. If Loreina do something unexpected the first life incidents would be all repeated just in a different background in the royal family and would be publicly spread as a failure not only for the family but for the freakin entire kingdom.
I never said she hated the duke. I mean she might have. She's a very passive character. So you're right, she did succeed in stopping the original story by this. At first she didn't want to be part of the dukes, because of her trauma from being pushed away from them, but they've been proven different this time, to an extent. Also they did give a timeline from when the sister entered the duke, which I think is like a year after transmigration or 6 months or something. So I guess that's where this story is waiting for? And MC isn't realizing the butterfly affect going on. MC does heavily struggle with the "transmigration into a child, and mentality becomes a child syndrome". But ya this book never sets a clear goal. She just wants a peaceful life this time, and she doesn't care who it comes from. I don't even think she thinks she's going to ever get loved at this point, which we know she will. We also know that the dukes family is going to get their memories back soon... So that's gunna be satisfying, but ya this story isn't going anywhere unique
Thanks for acknowledging Sienna doesn’t realize the butterfly effect. It really bugged me when Hessaros had to explain to her that she has a different status now.
And back to my original point, the lack of a clear goal is why Loreina is a more convincing character for me. I know what she wants and why she wants it, so I understand what her relationships with others are going to look like. Sienna’s lack of care in how she achieves her ultimate goal kind of makes her relationships with others messy.