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Wait why are people saying Carcel is canonically stupid? I feel like the entire arc in season 2 where Ines and Carcel are apart from one another did a great job showing Carcel is in fact very intelligent.
Also in the beginning of season 2, if Ines hadn’t gaslit and guilt-tripped Carcel into sounding crazy, Carcel was about to figure out ines’ whole plan of using him as a pawn who she will later divorce. I feel like it’s clear he’s very smart.
Even this chapter, he has a solid plan when deciding to divorce Ines. The only reason it sucks isn’t cause it’s dumb, but cause Ines likes carcel now and wouldn’t want to divorce him anymore. But Carcel obviously doesn’t fully understand that, not cause he’s dumb, but cause he doesn’t have all of the information yet.
Carcel is actually smarter and wiser than most of these characters. He’s not relying on memories to live so he doesn’t have a cheat card like them. He’s living and making decisions as he goes and he’s never made any fatal decisions that destroyed anyone’s life. He also knew all along something was wrong with Ines and often came pretty close to guessing the truth.
Anyway, regarding your question you asked on my other post, here is the conversation from the novel that shows what Emiliano and Carcel talked about. I mixed up the pendant vs child but I corrected the post. I went back to look up the chapter:
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Carcel: Later, as soon as the wound recovers, go to Sevilla and take Inés and the child. Not right now…
Emiliano: Lady Inés....
Carcel: She's at a hideout in Sevilla.
Present Day Emiliano: I killed the child. I betrayed the grace you had given us, when I went back there and got caught."
Emiliano: May I dare ask you for one more favor?
Carcel: It's not enough to save you?
Emiliano: I'm sorry... but I have no one but you to ask.
Carcel: Say it.
He asks Carcel to find the pendant as the jeweler/pawn shop and deliver it to Ines.
Carcel: How can I deliver it to your wife? I won't even know where you guys will live by then.
Emiliano: We'll probably be separated soon...
Carcel: You're breaking up after all this difficulty? I'm amazed.
Emiliano: Lady Inés will soon return to where she was.
Carcel: Then you.
Emiliano: I'll probably take our child away far away. Peral, anywhere. To a very far place...... A place where I can't hurt Lady Inés.’
bruh once again it’s the shallow readers who take everything at face value and not think about it any deeper
Oh I just hate interacting to these kind of people who doesn't even read properly or once they brand a character as someone, they would just see him as that. Like a "Selective hearing" behavior.
Truth. It’s always them with their kneejerk reaction. The double standards are also so blatant. It’s okay for Ines to spend 17 years plotting divorce against Carcel but it’s not okay for Carcel to even consider divorcing Ines for like a few hours. Never mind he’s simply trying to fulfill her wish. The GOOD thing about this is the topic will not be swept under the rug. It will be dealt with in the near future. The fact that Ines plotted 17 years against him to use him and dump him.
Oh yeah I saw your reply to me, thanks. If they showed this in the manwha it would’ve been a lot less vague.
For real. I think his “sillier” personality that he has around Ines make people think he’s dumb despite him only acting like that cause that’s his wife and he loves her. Also it’s kind of ridiculous to think that cause his thought process and actions show otherwise. Also every time Carcel misunderstands something, people forget he doesn’t have his memories unlike most of the main characters.
I’m honestly waiting for ines to share her guilt to carcel or just properly confess to him. I just feel like we always see carcel feeling guilt for things that are way out of his control as if everything’s his fault. So I’m hoping when ines confesses her shortcomings and guilt she feels towards him it’ll even out the slight unbalance in their relationship so they feel more equal.
It’s clear carcel believes the feelings ines has towards carcel aren’t at the same intensity as carcel’s. So I feel like if Ines is somehow able to communicate that she feels the same level of love carcel does it’ll progress their relationship to a better stage.
The issue with Ines is she keeps everything in her head. Also, the manhwa doesn’t convey well the fact that Ines is not a romantic person. Part of this is because of how she was raised (or family environment) and partly because of her personality which is like her parents. So it’s kind of funny later when she gets upset with Carcel for always having low expectations regarding her feelings for him or debating with him over who loves the other more.
However, Ines’s love for Carcel can already be seen in her reactions to him and the things she would do for him especially when we compare her past self in the early days of their marriage to her present self. She still has a lot to learn about love, showing love and voicing her love. For example, Ines would never willing use ‘Sun of my Life’ first. She thinks it’s embarrassing. It’s Carcel he uses it first and watch how she’ll begin to use these endearments because she learns this way of expressing her love from Carcel. Later, she even learns words of wisdom about love from Carcel’s mom. So, these are all new experiences for her despite the fact she’s lived three times already. Many new experiences lie ahead for her so look forward to it.
So, I do understand the imbalance you mentioned. Think of it as Ines learning love and how to express love from Carcel. Once Carcel sets an example of love, Ines ends up following it eventually. It’s rather cute to see how she’ll begin gradually begins to change to become a better lover.
Oh, I forgot about the guilt part, maybe in about 3 - 6 episodes, you will get your wish. Finally we can see some development on this topic on Ines’s side. I don’t think the manhwa can change it because it’s a pivotal moment.
Oh, and the guilt is addressed like the pattern in my first comment. Ines learns so much from Carcel’s example, generosity and overwhelming kindness towards her.
Thanks for all the details I feel like it helps me understand Ines better since the manhwa simplifies characters sometimes. After re-reading the newest chapters, it’s great seeing them interact for the first time after Ines got those memories cause I feel like you can already see how much more expressive she is with Carcel compared to before which shows her development I think.