Honestly, Tess isn't that bad. I don't particularly ship them, but out of all the love interests, it really could be worse.
("NO IT CAN'T," I yell as spoilers come back to haunt me and plague every chapter with nightmares of what is to come.)
Give me some spoilers.
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Tess is the reincarnation of somebody from Arthur's old life who Arthur killed, so things get really messy between her, Arthur and Elijah (who is also a reincarnator and was going to marry past!Tess before past!Arthur/Gray killed her). I don't know the specifics myself because I get all my spoilers through the wiki, but it sounds like a hot mess that I'm not looking forward to.
Considering the ML's backstory, I really hope when it's revealed to the FL, she realizes how UNINTENTIONALLY fucked up it was that she used her sexuality to manipulate him and they get that good good mutual understanding and reconciliation.
wait fl manipulating ml? is this later on? or...?
In the latest chapter, where she's like "apologize to me sincerely or I'll sleep with you" (non-sexually), that's manipulative.
true but thankfully she only asks him to apologize since he did ruin the doll she made for the princess
There's a difference though. She should have known it was inappropriate when she was using her sexuality to manipulate him while he ripped the bunny apart for a reason and literally did not realize it was wrong to do what he did.
Man, it's going by so slow but I can't even complain because I'm still hanging onto every word
ML, whose backstory hasn't been revealed yet: Stay away from me and we'll be chill
Abigail (not FL): abuses his daughter, throws bitch fits because he won't sleep with her, eats fucking POISON to get his attention
ML: yeah no I fucking hate your guts bye
y'all: UGH HE'S SO HORRIBLE AND GROSS
me: are we reading the same thing??????
You know, the worst thing is that he didn't even hate her! As he threw the flower in her coffin, he thought that it was a pity that she ruined her life on him. Dude just needed some space and time. But OG Abigail was just too impulsive and hurt to even bother (plus pressure from family and a younger rival trying to take her place)
Ik that but, some of that attitude was because of his actions, he also neglected his daughter, if he truly cared about her he would've stepped in and stopped the abuse
I'm not saying she was a nice women and it's all his fault, but he's not clean either
Uh, are you???
He neglected his fucking daughter and let her get abused. I don't care what sad past he has and how horrible his relationship was with his first wife, but that is inexcusable
I mean, we're two chapters in, we obviously don't know the full story- I agree that he probably could've done more for Blanche as far as Abigail's abuse was concerned, but considering we see him interact with her for one panel and the context is he's coming to meet Abigail to accuse her of poisoning herself, we don't even know what he HAS done yet.
We don't know how he interacts with Blanche without Abigail in the picture. Heck, we don't even know how his interactions with Blanche were /before/ FL took over Abigail's body, since the only time we see Blanche and the ML together is that one scene. Am I saying the ML a saint and has to be forgiven for whatever he does? Absolutely not, but people are running with the same "ugh ML is shit as always" line when his actions so far have been reasonable (for a human with flaws like everyone else).
Don't want to make another topic so soon, so I'm just gonna add this after reading ch3:
Honestly, I'm not gonna go too far into my own Tragic Backstory, but manhwa like these, where parents who aren't the best (maybe not Get In The Fucking Robot levels bad, but obviously not as good as they can be) get the chance to reconcile with their kids and strive to be better are cathartic as fuck, and it's just absolutely frustrating, as somebody who USED to be on Blanche's side of a bad familial relationship and knows that abuse is a very hard cycle to break, to see people not even giving him a chance.
The ML is not a saint. I will never claim he is. But I do believe he's human, and that people can stand to give manhwa characters in general a bit more humanity than the 2D "Good Guy vs Bad Guy" morality schtick.
Bitch.
I'm sorry that happened
I can't say i know how you feel because I haven't been through what you experienced
But what i meant wasn't that he was also abusive or hated his daughter, he just neglected his role as a husband (but from what I heard from others is that his backstory has to do with it) and as a father, fine, we don't know what he did for her, but we do know he didn't stop his wife from abusing his daughter, even if he didn't want the child, he still needs to take responsibility because it's not the child's fault, they clearly didn't ask to be born.
Why so heated? They're just sharing their opinion, no need to fight about it....
Lol yep thought the same
Like the original Abigail was much worse. She would also mentally abuse Blanche.
Also I read the novel lol so it doesn't help that I already know the background of each character. The more they'll know about the King the more they'll warm up to him. He's a cute cinnamon roll.
tfw characters in a hentai manga are more understanding about preferred pronouns than a lot of people IRL
Volume 4 was definitely the weakest so far.....still cute, but definitely not as doki doki
hot DAMN that last chapter......I can't tell if I was more attracted to Cecil or Ashley ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄
Arthur: i don't feel attracted to girls anymore, i wonder why
50 chapters later
Elijah: exists
me: :)
like i KNOW it's not gonna happen, but the author is really testing me they're so cute
Ikr???? they hav sus moments lmaoooo
yo this shit just got way too real I wanted cute magical girl x otaku fluff, not a reality check to the fucking skull