I'm having problems to seeing the witches as antagonists. Have they done anything truly horrible for me to dislike them? I'm only at ch. 39-40 but I'm not sure whether I can continue. I see potential in this story, but I dislike the vilification of witches, as they're typically a symbol of female power. Estelle pitted against them, having no strong female character besides her, and being good with swords, which is typically a masculine symbol, just doesn't sit right with me.
To me it's not even clear whether they "possess" a body or just evolve like some sort of pokémon. It's hard to hate them, and therefore also hard to sympathize with the mc and ml. I still like them as characters, but I find the witches intriguing and I want to know more about them as people. Basically, I can't pick a side, but the story clearly picks a side and that makes it hard for me to read.
Yo i really like queen and her daughters they seem so powerful.
I see your point, but if I remember correctly they did murder every ex fiance of the ML so it makes sense why he dislikes them. Just a bit lol
True. And I understand why they dislike each other, being rivals to the throne and all. But the way I see it, he kills people as well. Even stabbing his fiancé in the early chapters. And yeah, she was a witch apparently, but I'm still not sure what that means. It felt pretty brutal.
Yeah. And it seems the fience wasn't even aware of the fact that she is a witch. So it is very dubious.
Wasn't it because the witch was imposing as Enas at that time? Enas was already dead and Cleor killed Witch Enas so that Enas father doesn't know that his daughter had been replaced. But Enas father didn't know that and hence why the early assassination of our main character. Or am i wrong?
Well they tried to poison him so many times
That's the part I don't get. Do witches replace another person or do another person just bloom out to be a witch? What the princess talked about sounded more like a transformation. If the fiancé was just playing a part, why did she get scared of the tree, and why didn't she try to defend herself? She just looked distressed to me.
Personally, idk. Maybe if we know more about the witches and Empress Albina, we will know something
He tries to kill them too but yeah, strictly speaking they probably started it. But to me, that's not really the problem either. They are rivals to the throne, so I understand why they are fighting. The problem is that the story seems to frame the witches as antagonists, but they haven't really given me enough reason to hate them, and instead I kinda sympathize with them. It makes it difficult to read.
So what exactly does she want to get out of the fake relationship? Will her family really back off because she's in a relationship with a public persona? So she needed a fake relationship specifically with a public figure?
Someone PLEASE tell me she has a plan for this
heh she will just manipulating his father again later telling him that cassis is a puppet ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Why did I ever worry
Why is the queen so harsh on Agnes? Girl just need some therapy. Some people grow strong in harsh situations, and others need love and support, that doesn't make them weak. The queen was like that too, it's not like she was a powerhouse when she married Cayden. And as a fellow survivor, wouldn't she want to help Agnes regardless of her becoming queen or not? （￣へ￣）
Ikr!Σ( ￣□￣||)
My thoughts too! It's really sh*tty how she's been treating Agnes so far. I mean it would be reasonable if Agnes is a b*tch but she's really meek and non-threatening- and you'd think the queen would understand why she's like that :(((
Is that type of mental illness possible to cure?
Most mental illnesses are not curable but they are treatable and with time they can be properly contained and maintained.
Although I love the original "The little mermaid" I think that's such an interesting twist on the fairy tale!
When she turned to seafoam?
actually, in the original story of "the little mermaid" she really turned into a seafoam.
Yes but because of other reasons, not because the seawitch wanted to "free her".
no, it wasn't freedom as much as a kindness granted to the mermaid
Wait no, on the original story it's explained that people on land has a soal and go to heaven when they die, but mermaids don't and turn to sea foam when they die. The witch and the little mermaid made a deal that if she married the prince, she would gain a soul, live on land and later go to heaven. But if he married another she would turn to sea foam, which means she dies. She has a chance to escape this by killing the prince, but she choses to die instead. So in the Disney version she was curious about the life in land itself, but the original mermaid was mostly driven by the desire to have a soul.
In the original the seawitch is neutral or kinda bordering to bad, while she is straight up evil in the Disney version. I thought it was interesting that she was an ally to the mermaid in the manhwa's version.
There is also a twist to the original story that makes it less sad, but it's too complicated to explain.
wait I must've misremembered. iirc didn't the sea witch, seeing her plight, allow her to become a spirit of the air? maybe that's what I was thinking about to call the witch kind instead of the whole 'turns into sea foam' deal. btw do you think the queen is a mermaid?
It wasn't the witch that allowed that, but the spirits themselves that were moved by her sacrifice. The witch would allow her to live as a mermaid if she killed the Prince, but that was after her sisters had pleaded with her and cut their hair off as payment.
For the queen, I never even thought about it. Interesting theory.
OoooOo thanks for telling me ^^
Actually it could have been God too now that I think about it. One of those two