This entire situation is the dead Marquess’s fault! He chose a child to fill the role of head of household and “mother” to his children after he was dead. He knew their house would attract vultures and be attacked, and that defending their position would be a constant and difficult task. The church could have made up whatever excuse they wanted to attack them, but this particular accusation would be considered far less feasible if she wasn’t the same age as the kids
For fucking real, not only did he buy Shulli because of his interest in the dead empress (weird as hell), but he stole up her childhood and her dream, traumatized her, all to knowingly and strategically place her in a situation where all the blame and responsibility would fall on her and she'd be the scapegoat until Jeremy could come of age. And he knew what he was doing, it's like it was his plan. He knew a bunch of shit would happen to her and used the fact that she looked like the empress as another fall back because he knew the Duke and Emperor wouldn't turn a blind eye. He knew, didn't give a fuck, and did it anyway, literally fuck that man
The description alone just seems boring af before we even get to the AI issues. “OP character does OP things without any struggles”.
Me interviewing Atel: so you found out that your malicious and power hungry family killed the girl you liked to sell her body parts to an enemy nation that was imprisoning you and your response was…..[checks notes]…to instantly break out and start destroying random towns and uninvolved civilians?
Atel: this wretched world couldn’t protect her bla bla bla [continuous emo nonsense]
Me: ok buddy, but you didn’t do much to protect her either. If want to lay blame, try nuking the perpetrators instead of powerless citizens
Atel is a somewhat lukewarm character for me, but this is a really pathetic and annoying development. Of course he’s going to be traumatized and devastated by her death, but I fail to see ow a good person would react by randomly attacking everyone and everything as a result
If the king put 10% of the planning and resources he used to prepare for when Deon finally went apeshit into preventing the shitty Duke from having carts Blanche to ruin everyone’s lives (or just put a minimum age on mandatory army recruits) this entire situation wouldn’t exist
Can we talk about how deranged it is that the doctor (unpressured and unsolicited) declines to inform either the patient or their guardian of serious medical results, but happily spilled all to Hajin?! “Don’t tell them they’ll be stressed by it”, yeah no fucking shit buddy, and your point is!? Absolutely insane.
The doctor said he'll inform them after the test are done. Probably about the treatment..assuming it is, I mean if your family member was sick would you want just the bad new and false hope for possible treatment or actual confirmed news.
Also no bedside manner lol ofc mc was crying he went hot with she’s got renal cancer and its spread to her bones before. Start with the part about how there are treatment options and you caught it on time damn lol
Ok I get that this started as a fluffy found family story, but the plot holes are getting out of hand. Sigma, one of the main villains makes an attack and runs off, but nobody tries to chase or track her? I get that they have to be careful because of the blue moon, but seriously, not even from afar? She literally just stands behind the door to the arena area, continuously peeking out to see what’s happening and nobody notices. Just moronic. The plot writing is not there. There were other ways to allow Kittia’s power to be revealed to the enemy. It just feels sloppy and nonsensical
Girl got spammed with insults so hard from birth that she gaslit herself into thinking they were fate ╥﹏╥
Korean manhwa logic: this child has experienced several traumatic and horrific losses in a short period of time. Let’s shun them and blame them for causing the bad luck with their existence
10 years later: I can’t figure out why the person who was actively shunned, ridiculed, and neglected by everyone since their early childhood trauma isn’t a perfect, successful, well adjusted member of society. Must have been born that way
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Why is it that so many comics with a lot of romantic leads have to make one of them a family member?! I’m not touching that shit with a ten foot pole. I don’t care if its their distant cousin eight times removed or their step sibling, it’s unnecessarily fucked up and messy either way. Very creepy and out of the norm, so I tend to wonder a bit about the author’s personal interest in the topic.
they're not even related
That’s not the point. As I mentioned before, even it’s not biologically considered incest, they’re still siblings and I just don’t understand why authors feel the need to add such messy dynamics when they could do anything they wanted to give the MC multiple interests without having to look in the family. I’m irritated because when this development pops up, there are usually still weird social dynamics between the family members and their history.
I’ve dropped all but one comic with this trope I’ve ever tried because the dynamics were off, creepy, or problematic. The one that I kept reading was between two college age people who hadn’t met until their parents started dating. My point is that this trope 99.99% brings creepy, sketchy, or inexcusable behaviors/dynamics, and it’s just not necessary.
havent read this yet but can agree fake brother/ step sibling premise it is... its always been an ugly ass trope, but i guess it feels a lot more intimate bc it can set up the whole premise of yearning, or like the feeling of their being a certain tension between person a and person b but bc of certain constraints they cant act upon it until both parties just... let loose.
sorry if i'm not making any sense but like the only thing i can really correlate to my line of thinking is (if you've played or know about it) love and deep space where caleb (one of the "routes") grew up with mc in the same house and even were raised as sibling bc they shared the same grandma (not their actual grandma) but they are NOT related but i guess there was always tension in their home between the two. and a lot of people LOOOOOVE that trope so its just idk i guess the yearning of wanting someone except it has the underlying of feelings of going against nature ... but i do agree that such tropes are messy and can be hella weird.
omg yes u literally took the words outta my mouth..
i still feel iffy abt caleb's trope bc of this like girl...
idk tho bc i feel like u can def tell when it's like a sibling bond or a childhood friend bond; and in this situation is so much like a sibling bond esp under the premise of them both growing up under the same set of parents rather than in lds its rather just the grandma and not actually their parents... ykwim?? idk this trope is just so weird idk why the human population likes it.