That there's going to be some content ahead that a lot of people are going to take up arms with lmao. I'm super excited for the story because I think its super mysterious and interesting. I wanna know who Noah was and his relationship with Dylan/Dylan's sister.
Not cuz he's rich but because he seems like he's got a back story that might show he's insane and obsessed with the protagonist [even in a non-romantic way] and I love that character in these stories.
I just binged the entire thing on wuxia and the story is so good, the plot is so good, aria and ML (Won’t spoil) are SO FUCKING good together and supportive. Aria has such good character growth yet still maintains her evilness. I found this comic on Tappytoon first, but came here for comments, so if you have the means, please buy it there as well because the plot was actually REALLY good.
I can't quite remember what happens around 55, but the answer is yes and no?
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You’re right, Aria’s evilness is spiteful. It also never changes, but it also does change. She is the primary narrator of the story, BUT she is an unreliable narrator because she is very emotionally damaged by her past trauma of being misled and betrayed. She struggles with these issues for a long time in her current timeline too. She is unreliable because she doesn’t understand herself or her potential to be good, and so is convinced that she is evil and bad and this is what she tells the reader and herself. While in a lot of other stories, a traumatic past plays into gathering sympathy for the character, for Aria, it adds to he own conviction that, “Of course I’m evil.” She is convinced she is evil, and so the only reason she went back to the past is to use her nefarious personality to further expose other evil. Mielle represents all fakeness and evil in the story’s society.
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Aria completely accepts that she is evil and so this is her fate and purpose; she’d be happy to even die as long as it brings Mielle down. However, throughout the story, Asher slowly convinces her that her humble past, thirst for revenge, and evil character doesn’t actually make her a bad person- it just makes her a strong and capable person who has what it takes to get things done. He shows her that, even if she thinks she’s evil, she’s ultimately doing it to expose other evil which is GOOD.
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As Asher teaches Aria to love herself and embrace her evilness through condoning her actions, she begins to learn self-love, self-acceptance, and how to accept love from other people. Through accepting love from people like Asher, Jessie, and Sarah, Aria learns that she doesn’t have to be a “good person” to receive love, and that she can actually use her evil personality to RETURN love and show love. She uses her “evil capabilities” to punish other bad people and uplift the people who are good to her. This capability, to do good through evil, is what Asher loves about her, and recognizes in her before she does. Like, he recognizes this, and through HIM we see this in Aria, but I don’t think Aria recognizes this in herself until very late in the book.
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So, she stops being "evil" to people who are good. She never acts selfishly in the beginning of the book, only acting to advance her revenge rather than herself, but later in the book, she becomes selfish where "selfish" means, "acting for the best interest of her supporters." So she doesn't love herself at the beginning of the book and doesn't receive love. But at the end of the book, she loves herself through the people who love her and becomes MORE "evil" to viciously defend them and their happiness which she finally accepts as her own happiness.
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I hope this helped explain how the story is setting her up and where it is going
That is fucking beautiful dude, did you thought about writing a story with deep character development? Because you understand it so perfectly that now I, too understand her character better
OMG your comment is so kind. I just felt a really deep connection with Aria about how some traits in people can be seen as negative or bad, but it all goes back to how you use them and for whom you are using them. For me, even as a native english speaker, the slightly rocky translation on wuxia made this character arc a bit muddled at times, but I feel like it will be interesting to see how her inner thoughts and this deep character development will be executed as a webtoon. I hope it comes across more clearly than the fan translation because I have stored this novel close to my heart in such a short time and hope other people can enjoy it the same way!
Thank you!!!
That the brother story wasn't a particularly special one to the author out of this anthology. I wish they felt more strongly about it and serialized it!
hOLY SHIT IM SORRYYY AAA. I ACCIDENTALLY DOWN VOTED ╥﹏╥
The guy somehow went back in time, and now that they’re together and it’s out in the open, the friend doesn’t have to go buy a gift on his own to confess. The last time like ended with protag not knowing anything, now life is different And the friend won’t die because he’s not gonna get the gift or probably won’t get it alone?? What feels unfinished?
That this manga came out the same year as Fullmetal Alchemist is seemingly so unheard of these days. I can see so much of this manga in series like bleach, attack on titan, and my hero academia. Its like the awakened were rewritten into the arancar, the setting was reused by attack on titan, and izuku uses the same power siphoning to one body part. I know a lot of stories are derivitizations of previous stories, but its so interesting to finally read this manga and see such a strong "node" in this genre- Especially seeing that the node was such a strong, female-centered story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEt14J-8ONI
Claymore: The Imperfect Trailblazer
I also believe that Attack On Titan and The Promised Neverland were influenced by CLAYMORE
Omg gurll we have the same thoughts, as soon as Ive read or the story revealed that there was much more than the continent they were currently living in, and that the outside world has ongoing wars and that they were only experiments to aid that war, I was like "is this what inspired AOT's plot twist?" Like the way I gaspedd when I connected the two
It seems like the two other top mages are honestly looking for her out of a sense of duty rather than wanting to kill her. It begs the question then, who sent her into the child in the first place?
I don’t understand the title at all but whatever lmao!
Because The church is considered a wife in Gods eyes
Because The church is considered a wife
How does a couple go on for 10 years together like that. I know they only highlighted moments of tension for them, but I feel so frustrated for Candy. It also doesn't seem like they necessarily learned how to/what to change in their relationship to make it work better even if they both mutually agree they want to continue it. GAHHHHhhh