Nah... you are 100% right... that kind of woe is me characters are annoying as frick. Not to mention how she didn't even bother to learn if the guy had a fiancee or not. To me that makes her not much better than ogHeroine... and mc's personality is also... bland to say the least.
Honestly I find the personality of the women in most of these stories... bland and weird... they have this kinda feudal mentality that doesn't fit neither the historical nor modern setting... they are submissive and delicate in weird ways... and strong and opinionated in other weird ways... and it makes them being reincarnator/transmigrator/possessor kinda useless... instead of a setting it feels more like an excuse for some of their behaviors that doesn't fit the overall setting.
exactly! And as for the MC, I do think she's fairly bland beyond her "I can punch things really hard." Hell, her character growth segments thus far have been spoon fed to her/us as readers (most blatant being the scenes with her father!!). Like, really? I can turn off my brain and enjoy work like everyone else, but I do not appreciate being treated like I'm dumb.
The only thing I appreciated about her was that all she needed to snap out of it and keep the ml instead of all that drama was the father being: Ok, are u sure? So I can break this engagement and he can marry someone else and you'll be fine with it right? And she was: Nope! He's mine! But yeah... that aside there's nothing much about her... and honestly... not much of a fan of the stereotype punk=weirdos they went with for the soldiers of her family... that caricature of "macho dragqueens" in her battalion also didn't sit well with me... neither that or the just hyper muscular women would be ok... not when it feels so much more like ridicule than some sort of representation...
Especially when the super-strong and special MC also ends up... dainty like her mom? I wasn't even expecting a body builder type of physique, no, but did they really did that bit of "Oh I'm just so little compared to my brothers!"?
It makes those scene of her special force so much ore jarring. Like. Damn. MC is MC because she's still conventionally attractive while strong and not freakishly muscular like her soliders -.- Honestly. How annoying.
I get it, I get it- she was ill informed while trying to subvert her original fate. Fine,I get that. You do NOT get to play the victim ,"Oh, I'm just a terrible person after all!!!" And then force your presence, your feelings, onto the person you (presumably) hurt with your actions to atone. That's not atonement that asking someone to deal with your baggage and guilt for you because you're too cowardly to do it on your own.
This singular character arc /background explanation pissed me off to no end - more than other stories- because it makes a character insufferable for no reason. If she really was "woe is me," you'd think it'd be done in the capital to give that stupid Romeo and Juliet scene more weight with the scandal and betrayal some depth. This is just cheap writing in the middle of something light hearted and fun. It did not need to overreach.
I know some people will think I'm overreacting- and I am- but I 100% this really did ruin the storyline a bit. The MC is moreso a pushover to me in this story,now. The "villaness" is no longer just a person who fell in love with the right person at the wrong time. This is just lame. I will stay mad about this cuz wtf.