
Some of y'all complaining about Aria being truly Evil and only doing things for her own interest, and how she's ruthlessly utilising even innocent people uninvolved in her suffering her past lifetime in order to achieve her goals in the name of "revenge", and that be okay. I understand. Personally, I find it is pretty refreshing. A character who's dubbed the "villainness" finally has the actual ~essence~ of a villainness, as her actions and thoughts go beyond her initial motif of revenge. However, it is not that I endorse her villainies. Seeing a truly ''bad'' (arguable) character instead of the usual villainness-turns-good one (which I still love) just tickles my fancy. Plus--
Novel spoilers ahead:
Towards the end, she treats the new marchioness (her now tutor) and a handful of other people still pretty good? There was a line that suggested she saw them in a different, more positive light instead of just "pawns". The only people she took down was the Count's family, the crown prince's fiancée, and sort of most of the nobility. Lol. Well, respectfully, they WERE pretty evil (and threatened the power of the royalty?) so Aria did the country some good in taking them down while achieving her goals of revenge. She never intentionally HURT hurt anyone other than the people instrumental in her downfall in her past life, if my memory doesn't betray me. She just manipulates them to dance to her own tune. Aria's pretty evil, yeah, but like, lawful evil.
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