It's so weird, whenever we get one of these stories about a woman breaking free from the n...

It's so weird, whenever we get one of these stories about a woman breaking free from the normal royal drama and cementing herself as a badass, claiming to forge a new path for her own happiness, they are always forced into some kind of romantic plot, as if a woman couldn't be happy alone. The ml is just annoying, he is useless most of the time. Yes he is a person of high influence, but he is very much a non character, he is not developed in most ways, Scarlet even tells him to wake up be be fr, but he is stationary, never revealing his true feelings even though she said to his face how that would ruin their relationship.

I believe even stories like this, ones that break the formula, are still long ways from truly breaking free from the patriarchal views imposed by society, it's nice to have it be here, and be a story about a badass woman, but it is unfortunate that it still shies away from granting Scarlet true freedom and agency.

If you truly look upon the story itself you start to question, why can't other woman be o relevancy other than her and the reincarnated girl, why couldn't one of the women from the dragon kingdom be part of the main team, none of them were bound to the land like Rex. Why is it only boys by Scarlet's side? Why are all figures of power men?