…If this plan is doomed to fail, not because I think the narrative is setting it up for it (which it is btw but I digress), but because whoever possessed Rania’s body doesn’t realise a misaligned soul is just bound to be off-putting to people. For Camilla, it was to a GREAT extreme where everyone around her just HATED her in her other life because her soul just didn’t belong to that world in the first place.
For this Rania who’s trying to form personal bonds (for her own agenda but personal nonetheless), trying to get closer emotional is just… not… it. When Ravi was like “I don’t hate her but I don’t really feel like getting closer”, it just made me think of that.
Of course everyone back in that poor town where Camilla first met her liked her because she’s doing stuff for them. They don’t know her character, they don’t need to, but they know of her good deeds so SURELY she must be a good person. Similar to the way Camilla might have been universally off-putting to everybody close to her in her other life but she made it to being an award-winning top actress anyway.
Rania just has that effect at a MUCH lesser scale because while whoever it is may be in the wrong body, but they are still in the right world.
Y'know, I completely forgot about the part where souls who inhabit a different body from their own are hated lmao. Thanks for the reminder XD
I agree and maybe it's not as an extreme hatred as Camilla experienced because the soul isn't switched from a different world but from a local
What kind of trauma do you have to have about your mother’s death which makes you kiss the nearest person who touches you? Aren’t you flash-backing about your MOTHER right now?
Oh god, the cape clinging part.
CRIIIINGE.
Maybe if I was younger, I’d love it. But god, that felt so FORCED. Clinging to a cape becaause it’s apparently “warm”? Bleh.
Agree! How I made it would make more sense in my head:
Latvan saw the saintess on a bench. Alone. Alone?! How? Why? He couldn't guess. Could she be hurt in some way!? Poisoned? Stabbed!!? Rushing over he crouched close, inspecting her for injury.
Was she sleeping..?
She laid there unhurt, with a small snore. Sleeping... He breathed a sign of relief, only for it to ruffle her hair. Entranced he watched as they settled back down and she squirmed. He turn away quickly taking a deep breath to calm down, his cloak billowing behind him in the wind. *Pull*
Turning his head in her direction he saw... White. The white of his cloak. Of course! She was sleeping on a bench. Outside. "Warm"
He had to protect the elements to ensure her health. She shouldn't be out here alone... Without him...
-Continues regularly scheduled scenes.-
But there’s something about it that has just completely forgetting EVERYTHING about it the moment I’m done. Barely anything is sticking with me about it. I dunno why it is; it’s a perfectly functional story with a just-done-with-everything FL, simping ML who trails after FL because she is literally the solution to his problems and whatever face that tutor has (it is quite the design!)
I don’t even remember if we’ve seen this ‘time-limited black screen’ yet. I hope it sticks to me more by chapter 30.
I like a little jealousy sometimes but this is NOT one of them. Her jealousy better now blow their cover (although I suspect it might since she has genuinely broken the cuffs). I’m sick of that trope, especially after we just finished visiting his original home and dealing with that insecurity of theirs.
IkR. They always have to ruin in this way.
I guess I should’ve expected this. Zect couldn’t command an army. I guess it’s too much to expect him to command his little party of girls too. He didn’t even want to help out with chores.
Though I will say, this makes one thing he said right. These girls really are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to quality. All of the MC’s wives went to battle dragons to pull him back and yet the daughters immediately dipped even though Zect literally just sliced a dragon and they are the legendary party.
Eclat has confessed and our FL also has feelings for him, but I don’t really include them officially into her harem until she’s told them the truth about herself…which she hasn’t yet for Eclat.
The fact that he says his loyalty for her is all himself though and not duty is a good step. I just hope it holds true when she tells him the news.
(Also Robert sussing her out immediately XD I’ve seen people not entirely vibe with his manipulative nature but you gotta admit, he’s sharp.)
Eclat’s like “YOU’RE ACCEPTING NEW CONCUBINES BUT I DON’T QUALIFY?!” I don’t think Eclat is fully against other concubines, just super salty he can’t be one again XD
I was not expecting this kind of scene so soon after Sieger. Though they have been simultaneously building this up alongside Sieger, I remember it was mentioned that Eclat doesn’t really talk much with her about anything other than work. I suppose it’s gonna be a pining fuck first, get to know each other later deal as opposed to Sieger’s get to know first, have marathon sex at the end deal.
Eclat has to be the type that bottles up his feelings then has them explode and unable to stop them again, I guess. I hope this will stop him from trying to hide behind the excuses duty and loyalty and propriety and finally let our FL learn about his personally.
I got up to chapter 14 and I’m already fed up with it because she’s complaining about a problem entirely of her own making.
Either help him out and accept that will end up getting you involved or let him suffer his ptsd attacks and wait for the OG!FL to show up. Why is she all Surprised Pikachu that LITERALLY SOLVING HIS BIGGEST PROBLEM BEFORE THE OG!FL EVEN SHOWS HERSELF IS GETTING HERSELF INVOLVED?! Her choosing to step in to alleviate his symptoms only to then freak out and question her own choices later makes her look so indecisive and flaky to me and I’m so annoyed by it.
LIKE WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN, WOMAN?
And what’s even more sad about this is I have no idea how the author could possibly rectify this problem. I understand that if the FL did stick to her guns and went Full Neutral Not-Involved, it would make her look very unlikeable to the reader. But they’ve also gotta keep the ‘I’m viewing this as a temporary position” shtick so they try to make her reluctant.
But maybe it’s a me problem that these two things are not gelling well.