I mean perhaps poorly written is too strong of a word? If the author's goal was to make her a likable distressed villain then she's barely taking it. But if the author's goal was to make her a pitiful hopeless helpless girl taking it out on the wrong ppl destroying everything in her way then she is quite excellent
I actually agree. There's just something lacking - something that isn't clicking for me. I get that what happened was shitty but the whole vendetta she has over those that weren't even there... she's just broken at this point. I honestly don't think she's as effective as she could have been. I know she did more harm the first life but, again, the whole revenge against his bloodline falls flat for me. Again, she's broken but maybe that's the point. There's no coming back from this. At the end of the day, I honestly think she hates herself more than his bloodline.
Exactly like she's just hopeless i cant even feel for her out of feminism cus how her boy problems affected other women pissed me off
Worst yet is that it all feels like a petty tantrum. She dove into this with all the warnings and when shit hit the fan, she goes batshit and fuck all who get in her way. So many innocent lives lost and she's hellbent to target his descendants not caring that most of her targets are innocent. Wait, lemme correct myself. For all their faults, they are in fact innocent coz the one who did her wrong is long dead.
I really don't think the villainess is that well written of a character, the MC is much—much more interesting, NOW i respect everyone's thoughts here but i know the author attempted to kind of make her into this complex and misunderstood dark femme villain but it's just not doing it for me, like yes let's acknowledge that she was deeply wronged by his lover and she's taking revenge on the wrong people and put these points aside. It's the fact alone that she in fact was already warned by her kin that her actions will not only harm her but the WHOLE existence of mages itself (as i remember it). Yet she ignored the concerned voices of these women. Did she not basically BETRAY her SISTERS for the love of a MAN? She was not a toddler, did she not do this to herself? Already a big minus on my book. So instead of me feeling sympathetic for her idk she just comes off as kind of... Pathetic.
But again these are just my thoughts as a fellow reader. (⌒▽⌒)