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I don’t get why they couldn’t reveal the crown prince mistreatment of his sister to the empress and emperor. I get their explanation but now they genuinely think the crown prince took such good care of her that she got better and they only think of him in a more positive light. Wouldn’t it make more sense to bring them to see the truth(him strangling her), be in disbelief, and then have the halias be liek my second son wants to marry her and since the palace didn’t treat her will/ she has trauma we’re taking her with us
there was a line about the prince being removed as the heir, and it being his only punishment (might have gotten the specifics wrong lol) but he's been hogging all attention and resources that would have otherwise been divided into the three of them. he has all the political power and advantage in the social scene, which means he'd still get his way sooner or later (ie killing his siblings ahead of time, or some other plan with similar effect). ideally, they'd have to ruin the prince's image first entirely, as well as make it so that his allies cannot help. that or death/exile
No. Those two come off as ever optimistic, happy-go lucky fools. They aren't even decent parents, 'cause if they were, no matter how busy they were, they would have made the rime to check on her at least once a quarter and veen liasing with the medic in charge of her wellbeing. They would also be aware of the trash treatment the 2nd prince is experiencing and either put measures in place, or keep him close. Exposing him without serious evidence of intent, blackmail and support he receives to mess up his siblings and the other diabolical things he's up to that let him get away with abusing his siblings and terminating/preventing any political support from other family and nobles would be a waste of time. Those parents would do some light mental gymnastics and let their crown prince off with a slap on the wrist. They piss me off even more than he does.
Hmmmmm I guess that does make sense. The parents do seem like the type to just not really care as they never even thought to visit her once
This is just a guess, but isn’t it possible they may have been brainwashed by the sorceress who works with Edifa?
That washonestly my first theory. I remember comment-posting about it earlier in the story. But at some point they implied or atraight up stated that he was the sibling without any powers. And there doesn't seem to be anyone that he regularly keeps by his side that would be an alternate for the powers to manipulate. And the only magical item and barrier of note were made by a rare powerful witch/magician. So unless, he also had access to another one, willing to put in the work to make something powerful enough to keep up a mind control power, when he was still a high schooler (since the excessive control started about then), I just don't see it. But I'm always up for a good plot twist XD
I wish he could’ve just tied it up….hes been twinkified….: