
I get that Penelope is our FL so we can't help but love her, support her, and wish the best for her after all she's been through. BUT EVERYONE IS IGNORING THAT SHE'S THE ONE WHO USED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Of course Eclis would've eventually noticed that Penelope was just trying to please him and that would be upsetting for anyone cause you're basically living a lie. Yes, it was wrong of him to go behind her back because if it was truly love rather than an obsession, he would've consulted her first. But they were both being selfish, yet all everyone looks at is Eclis's betrayal, when Penelope betrayed him first in a way (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
Has no one felt bad for Eclis in the earlier chapters? Being a slave and looked down on and being used by Penelope? Because I don't remember him having been a necessarily bad person back then.
I do admit however that Eclis's reason for betraying Penelope is harder to justify than Penelope using Eclis all along. Penelope has just been trying to survive as best she can but Eclis... Well he just wanted to have Penelope to himself essentially which can't really be seen as a good reason (⊙…⊙ ). BUT MY POINT IS that I don't get how you can hate Eclis but love Penelope because it just feels a little hypocritical when they are both victims as a previous comment stated. My two cents ig ╥﹏╥

Literally like , people be loving whatever the mc is doing
Like , elcis is a yandere character, if Mc's justification is "she's trying to survive " then elcis justification is "he's a yandere character duhh hes designed that wayyyy"
Honestly it just turned out this way that yuonne is sus , otherwise mc has no right to sabotage her position, yuonne would be rightful child of the house , and those people would not be kicking her MC out, at least without compensation .
People not forgetting that slavery in itself is absolutely horridly disgusting, and saying 'she did things for him' when she still treats him like a peice of shit sometimes.

Eclis literally killed people to obtain his goal. Sure they're selfish, but Penelope never killed people to obtain her goal. Meanwhile he killed innocent fellow countrymen.
Try as you might, I find murder to be objectively one of the worst things you can do to obtain something. He automatically is an awful person.

I never said elcis is innocent , at all . ╥﹏╥
I never defended him
The thing i said about his justification being a yandere was definitely sarcasm TvT ,just because MC did "lesser bad" doesn't mean she's good
Just because she didn't killed someone doesn't mean she's innocent, I just found it disgusting how she's calling him a dog without hesitation (he killed people but she's definitely not angry about that right now , she just mad his love is not what she actually wanted from him )
Elcis is a criminal and is wrong , like many Tyrant ML novels where they kill people like ants but nobody bats an eye , but both are inhumane things

But To make Eclis a murderer was on the hand of MC. Mc may have been struggling but not considering Eclise's feelings and doing only what she wants to attain her goal, not sharing her highlights of plan, and only doing as she wants godddd her incompetence is just railing up. she is like a playgirl although the circumstances may have been like that she had the option to choose solely Eclise and she failed herself in that. She said her only lifeline was Eclise but she didn't even go to visit him timely, letting him live with suspense and all goddddd she is just acting like a bitch.

No...i mean mc was being a bitch but killing people was all on elcis , he has already gone through war so i think killing isn't a big deal for him . Eclis did that whole thing by himself so he is a criminal ( not for that country cus he killed criminal slaves who were running away)but you know he kinda pushed them and then killed them , worse thing is that they were his previous comrades/or people ? MC did bad ,slavery , gaslighting him , treating him like a dog.kinda two timing, Yes ,if Mc treated him right maybe he wouldn't kill them but she didn't push him for that .mc is a hypocrite bitch and eclis is a murderer with messed up morals
Idk what user maliciouscorpse is thinking but we don't think of eclis as ML but a human mc selfishly used(she started using and gaslighting him way before he murdered his fallen countryman) . When mc will choose to stay in this world everyone will become very much real (I mean for mc ) just think if elcis actually fell for her innocently (even though mc never ever genuinely liked him) she'll go to her world and abandon him in the world where there is no one for him , a salve who have lost his owner might as gey kicked out having no place or get sold again , and the mental trauma over the war one .
I hate mc for shiting on vinter just because he tested her (he's a fkin mage who'll get hunted if things get out ) she's like "you lied to me you played with my feelings " like bitch what you did with elcis is not worse than that ???
If you do that to me its a criminal offence worth dying and If i do that to you i have my reasons, hypocritical bitch

But didn't Eclipse know that Penelope didn't love him the same way? Eclipse knew from the start that Penelope was just using him and didn't hold any feelings for him despite her actions saying otherwise. And I think you can make an argument that Penelope's kind words and affections weren't meant to seem romantic but more platonic but that's another convo. Eclipse said so himself that he knew he had other options but chose this option because it would make Penelope rely on him. Also calling her a playgirl considering the fact that's she in an otome game is ironic and feels kinda exist. Then to your second point in which she should of included Eclipse in her plans makes no sense for her to due in her circumstances. Especially since she knows Eclipse in the game holds love for ynnone and could possible turn on her. It only makes sense as a possibility now because we have foresight she didn't.
Only omegaverse makes this possible because ain't no way both of them wouldn't be passed out cold after three whole days of fucking