So often we find characters in books. The perfect woman who is kind and gentle, loves everyone, and everyone loves her. She is the Mary Sue. She is Ibeline.
What’s interesting about this chapter is what happens to a Mary Sue when all of her motives and who she is gets deconstructed. Outside the lines of the story where everything goes her way, who is she really when inconsistencies occur? When all her life, despite her ‘trials’, everything was expectedly easy street where men just fell into her lap simply because she existed.
The author took this chapter to show that the perfect Mary Sue truly isn’t perfect. Everything came to her on a silver platter. So this chapter shows us what happens to the character when it’s taken away. Who is Ibeline when she no longer gets what she wants?
Despite being on the manipulative side, unlike a truly manipulative villainess, she’s never used that to hurt people. It’s always ended up as a defensive mechanism. Because that’s what a Mary Sue inherently does.
She isn’t good or evil. She’s just never had to try to be a good person. Unlike literally everyone, she’s never had the experience of having to choose between sincerely good behavior or giving in to selfishness—until now.
I found this chapter to be an interesting read into her psyche that we don’t normally see from other characters.
In addition: this chapter wasn’t meant to get you to like or sympathize with the character. Which is also interesting because most authors would use this backstory chapter as a means to make you ‘sympathize with the undeserving’.
Considering that no one likes her and finds her annoying, proves this chapter to be successful.
You worded this very well
No cap, you should make a podcast
Tbh not really surprising. Blue was sus from the beginning. But now I wonder why purple knows moony.
I bet the human king was in love with the demon queen so he had her husband killed (actually what happened to him?) and captured her to keep for himself.
Also big brained that they just destroyed the wall since they couldn’t break the chains
he was just human, so he may have died of old age
Yeahhhhh I totally felt the same vibes! ヾ(☆▽☆)
When you think it’s gonna be wholesome and the emperor hits you with the uno reverse card
I mean the this is the same author who wrote Candy Man after all
I hadn’t read that. But now I don’t want to if it’s going to be like this :/
Yeahh I read that manga first and I was really caught off guard with the possessiveness
Ok so I know the guard slipped up by telling his friend shuli was leaving, but are they pegging all the blame on him like he was the mastermind or?
Because he is the one found her in the forest and not many people know that she is leaving..they want to interrogate him first
I think they called him the main culprit or something— like they were 100% sure it was his fault. Though tbh, knowing how kind he is, he probably put all the blame on himself for allowing her to leave
Wtf are u even talking about?? He’s her personal bodyguard and he wasn’t even there when she got horribly killed he could’ve prevented her death maybe ?? He’s the one to blame yall dick lovers should think twice before defending men
You sound like an sjw and not the good kind.
Not saying he wasn’t also partially to be blamed. But what I’m worried about is that they’re putting 100% of the blame on him as if he orchestrated the entire thing. Like making sure she was killed by those bandits
And not having enough protection. Sure the emperor is doing his own investigation but it sounds like it’s all going to be secret and the public will never find out the true culprit which was the church. Which means the church would have all the power they wanted. Especially if they put it on a scapegoat, aka her guard.
A well written spoiled character with a good heart and conviction! Normally I hate bratty characters who are naive, but I love her because she’s trying to change. Obviously it won’t happen overnight but I love that she’s sticking to it no matter how difficult and different things will be for her
Theory: I think there’s a bit of a time switch going on. When she’s having sex, she’s married. But when we go back a few months, there’s no ring on her fingers. So my guess is that she ends up marrying the ‘uncle’ Doha within a few months of the first time they meet.
I could also be very wrong.
Oh that could be it but even in both chapter the ring isn't shown at all until that one panel, during the whole smut no ring was drawn on either hand even both hands where shown, til she called out her husband name but I like your theory it could be it, we need know the uncle name
Okay I read a blog review and yes your theory is right