If I had a dime for every time the "coldhearted Marquis" had the emotional range of freshly mashed potatoes, I'd be FUCKING RICH.
"what could she possibly misunderstand"
You mean from the premise that she was chosen as a perfect breeding tool from BOTH SIDES with that being her only selling point, figuratively AND literally? The summary of how you both got to know each other fit in 4 panels including marriage?
So far nothing definite was even exposed via story ASIDE from the breeding part, so the possibility of everyone being an unreliable narrator notwithstanding, there's so much room for misunderstandings, several couples could waltz in there, simultanously.
This Forest Master is fantastic
And she's right. What HAVE the adults been doing.
But this Forest Master is also fantastic.
(Actively scritches her totally reasonable rant into a wall so that doofus of a king has a taste)
Channeling his inner chihuahua, I see.
Settle down, or it's burrito time again.
I am trying WITH ALL MY MIGHT to disregard all this casual and non-subtle condescension towards commoners and big people and non-pastels.
I am TRYING.
The guy is pretty cute, freezing up on the spot like 404-page-not-found.
Dunno how to feel about reading about my daily work in a "cute context" but we'll see.
Found family with a little grafting here and a little roping there and a generous helping of "I do however, think all of you would be helped a great deal by a therapist" and that begins with this saponite statue of a Duke, leaving his kids to rot WAY BEFORE their mother died, like don't give me that. DO NOT serve me this "working dad can only feed bodies, not hearts or minds"
Shirking his duties to begin with, nono. "I think we ate together before"
that was FIVE years. Five years in kids years is being 3 different persons each
And I can understand the flowers and the golden font very well, but if a mother would act like this in earnest a therapist would call that "parentification" and it would lose its golden nimbus pretty fast.
"Barland is the MVP, setting the prince straight every other minute." Which is, after all, quite confusing, as the prince-per-panel-ratio unexpectedly keeps rising.
So let's just go with Kotoro:
"Barland sets the Idiot straight every other minute", and this is also confusing, as the average idiot-per-panel-ratio keeps rising, too.
At least they're all rather pretty. If nothing else -
her going "I didn't see... ANYTHING. AT ALL" was perfect.
Alright. I am ready for her to ask if "Mr. Cat" has been neutered and the Mayhem following after.
"You KNEW??!!
STILL being the origin of so many misunderstandings because everyone keeps just too many fucking secrets to keep track of...
wonderful.