I like this one... it's very bittersweet and melancholic but I appreciate how human that makes this. I can't wait to see how things go from here
Everyone's got their own opinion so I thought I'd throw mine into the ring. I really like how twisted these characters are in a way. They're very selfish characters and that's interesting. I like the idea of Dylan taking the chance from char like that because it really fits how selfish he is and how bit by bit he's taking steps that aren't predetermined by char. It steadily escalated from him kissing her, to throwing that party for her, to now taking away the chance to kill the emperor.
To be fair, I don't think either character truly "deserves" to have their way. Char's goal is very selfish too and she's been manipulating dylan to manifest it.
I liked the whole plot of overthrowing the king and seizing the throne, I thought the little snippets we got about the plan coming together were kinda cool (tho I did want more). But mostly, I'm really hyped to see what happens next because this was the end goal. I can't wait to see how Char reacts to Dylan doing that and how dylan is going to run the government here on out.
I think he's gonna be selfish and he's not gonna rule the empire like she wanted, he's gonna be cruel, but fair, so the empire is gonna prosper even more than before, so she got her revenge, but she won't be able to leave him, she may try, but she won't succeed, and he will probably not have his way completely too, I don't know how, but I agree with you on that. (=・ω・=)
So he's a little stupid, but he's got the spirit....?
Omg im sorry i was supposed to like but i misclickedΣ(っﾟДﾟ；)っ
He's a weak character with boundaries, that's very refreshing. Honestly you don't see that often, I like the fact that even if he's more soft spoken, he strongly holds his ground. Wonderful
Came for the 'plot' but stayed for the plot.... wow f*ck the duke
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I appreciate how you can tell the artist has something for button up shirts. Like shirt shading is just "whoop dee doo there's a shirt" but button up shirts are lovingly rendered with multiple colors and look gorgeous. Didn't know button up shirts were a kink
Agreed, I noticed it too! The shirts are rendered amazingly. (≧∀≦)
I feel like it's a real photo but rendered a lot! Have y'all heard of photobashing?
I think our mc is very interesting. I appreciate how nationalistic she is and i want to know more about how others percieved her back in the castle. She seems very intelligent, maybe the end game is seeing her become queen
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i do please !!!
Yes!
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most certainly do!
the Granor army claimed to have Zelle's body and threatened to kill her if the Roymond army attacks them. As the only KNOWN royal heir alive, Zelle is very precious to the Roymond army. Valhail managed to start a surprise attack, win the battle, and reclaim her body alive. However, they found that she was poisoned and would die in 30 days without an antidote. Bird Zelle got frustrated and bit her body on the neck, trying to wake herself up. Then Zelle flew off and was shot by poisoned darts after getting lured into a trap.
Zelle woke up as human again. Valhail started suspecting her to be a spy after she slipped a few times (she was supposed to in a coma ever since she was captured so she couldn't be aware of what's going on in the war). Eventually, it boiled to a point where Zelle admitted she was the bird and start quoting back the things Valhail said to the bird. Valhail was stunned, and while coming to terms with the truth, Zelle escaped. She was attacked by barbarians but was saved by Valhail, who admitted to believing her.
Spoiler: their reaction
[There is a lot of awkwardness afterward because Valhail remembered he was rude to the bird a lot and Zelle was embarrassed by her behavior as a bird (cozying up to Valhail because she wanted to survive. He even asked her if that was sincere or just for survival. Zelle answered that she was lonely as a bird and he was the only one who recognized her intellect )]
Zelle used her presence to boost the army's morale (the king and all his concubines are dead, along with many heirs). They continue to search for the remaining heirs (1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th, 10th). At one battle, they tried to divide the much larger Granor army. The battle was successful and the Granor retreated after taking a big loss. However, a Roymond assassin attacked Zelle, saying only the Eastern King should be the real ruler. Zelle suspected it was one of her siblings. She later strike up a friendship and alliance with Hilde, a politician from the East.
Later, 4th prince was revealed to be alive. He claimed to have fought his way out of where he was imprisoned. Zelle was happy to see him until he later accused her of getting a good reputation and respect from the army by sleeping with Valhail and other higherups.
Spoiler: 4th Prince
[He was the firstborn son and the most favored child of the king. However, because he is younger than his siblings, they are ahead of him in line to the throne. He developed an inferiority complex and chose to buy and harass women who looks like his sisters. He even remarked that it was a shame his full-blood sister, the 3rd princess, was dead because she was the prettiest of all the royal heirs. Right after he said that, he said that Zelle was a lot prettier than he realized. ]
Valhail got really mad at 4th prince for insulting Zelle. During an argument in the Armory, Zelle scratch herself on a spear with a poisoned tip and fell unconscious. She woke up in her bird body, which had been in a coma due to the same poison. Valhail realized this when the bird showed up and he worried about her a lot, refusing to send her to the enemy's camp. Zelle met Adele, a lady from the west. Zelle discovered that Adele is a genius and is well educated with eastern history. Zelle gave her some messages she got from the Granor and Adele managed to decode them, which talked about how the Granor are worried about their food supply. Valhail learned of Adele's intelligence through Zelle and asked Adele to identify the poison and figure out a cure.
Adele found that the cure is the poison after being diluted. They awoken soldiers that were poisoned in battle, but Zelle wouldn't wake up. Valhail later took Zelle to the cliffs where crystal roses grew. He told her that she should live her life however she want and he would support her. Zelle realized that she likes him. Later, Zelle, in her bird body, participated in the war by gathering a bunch of birds and targeting the enemies' layout (they just followed her for some reason, which surprised her and she used it to her advantage) Adele figured out that both blood and poison were involved. She also figured out the history of Zelle's ancestor, who was said to have golden blood and shared that blood with cavier falcon and Zelle realize that could be the answer to why she can wake up in a cavier falcon's body. Zelle woke up after the new cure was administered.
After Adele met Zelle in her human body (she doesn't know Zelle is the bird, only Valhail and two of her maids, including the one that was stabbed, knows), she praised Zelle a lot because she found out through her investigation that Zelle faked a letter pretending to be 1st princess to save grain harvest from a typhoon and saved a lot of people from starvation a few years ago. Zelle was embarrassed because forging letter is a crime and she was trying to keep a low profile to stay alive. Later, rumors of how Zelle saved the grain supply spread though the people of Roymond. The Roymond army won the battle and reclaim Roymond's castle from the Granor. Zelle threw a banquet to celebrate. Granor sent a message asking to end the war.
Later, they found out the rumors about the 4th prince was true and Zelle thought that she must stop him from taking the throne. At the banquet, Valhail's people came and reveal that 4th prince did not fought his way to freedom, but his mother bought him with the lives of 200 Roymond people. A lot of people were angry. Valhail fought with 4th prince and mocked him for his perverse taste toward women who resembles his sisters, humiliating 4th prince in the battle to avenge the victims.
Not long after, 4th prince was found dead, having been killed brutally. In addition, her 2nd sister showed up now that the war has ended with soldiers of her own. She admitted to starting the war with Granor to get rid of 1st princess, but Granor betrayed her. She was the one who was bought out of prison with the lives of 200 Roymond people, but framed the shame on 4th prince. She was the true Eastern King (Her initials were the anagram for Eastern King. Zelle tried to run away with Valhail but surrendered after 2nd Princess threatened to kill Zelle's maids. She then imprisoned Zelle, trying to marry her off to Adele's brother, who was on 2nd Princess's side. But to do that, 2nd Princess must ascend the throne to gain the authority for that.
One of Zelle's maid slipped her the poison to putting her soul in the bird's body. Zelle took it, trying to help Valhail find evidence of 2nd Princess's crime. 2nd Princess killed off two of her own men who could be important witnesses, disheartening Zelle for failing. 2nd Princess was also annoyed with Valhail because he was her fiance but he asked to broke off his engagement and even fell in love with Zelle. Zelle pricked herself with a poisoned spear, waking up as a human again. At the coronation, Valhail's men broke in with evidence of 2nd Princess's crimes and the witness is - surprise - Adele's brother who 2nd princess is trying to marry Zelle to. Most of the soldiers did not know of 2nd Princess' treason and served her because she was now first in line to the throne with the death of 1st Princess. Valhail's private army is loyal only to Zelle because Valhail swore an oath of loyalty to Zelle during the war and his army only obey the owner of the necklace, which Valhail gave to Zelle.
The 2nd Princess is carried away, screaming at Zelle the whole time, blaming her for everything. With no other heirs, Zelle took the throne and became Empress. She went to look for her bird body, hoping to cure the poison for good and find a way for the bird to live its own life (which might be impossible because it only contain Zelle's soul. When Zelle is in her human body, the bird is unconscious), only to find that the bird had died not too long ago, after Zelle was crowned. Valhail said that the war was too harsh on the bird's body in addition to the poisoning. They buried the body and erected a monument at its burial.
tysm !!! omgosh i cant wait to see this all drawn out ٩(❛ᴗ❛)۶
I'm throwing this out here because I think that comment chain was really abrasive and I don't want to join it. Lemme put in my 2 cents because it's very easy to throw around words like "fetishize" without thinking more deeply about it. Fetishizing is grossly looking at something not inherently sexual and sexualizing it in general. It's not a good thing usually, one exanple of this would be the ways in which yaoi fetishizes gay men, usually for a more straight female audience. This doesn't mean all of it is inherently meant to be fetishizing, it just depends on what people take from the work.
It's also easy to go ahead and get angry at people who feteshize things like this but you have to consider that a big reason why this occurs is because girls in society aren't always allowed to explore sexuality in context to themselves and it's seen as "dirty" so a lot of yaoi is consumed by that group as it's socially easier to see it just shown by men.
But also, fetishizing gay men is a terrible thing to do. Things such as guessing a "top" or "bottom" for an mlm relationship or thinking about the sex lives of real gay men is not something people should do after looking at yaoi. It's important to have a seperation so as not to hurt real people who struggle with having relationships in society.
Yaoi, like a lot of different media, isn't exactly a representation of how these relationships work in real life. It sounds obvious sure, but people can forget it when they try to sexualize people like this. Honestly I'm going in circles at this point so I guess I just want to say that people should make sure to maintain the seperation between real life mlm relationships and the contrivances seen in yaoi. And try to understand the povs of other people