I sort of miss the older, less detailed art style. It's technically prettier now, but Dorothy just looks so cute and childish. She's a person that's lived an entire life already. She's a person capable of great cruelty. She's not some innocent heroine, that should blush at every moment.
The reason she’s “blushing” it every moment - it’s because she has severe guilt and she doesn’t really know how to react because she’s literally been a tyrant that kills people be fr - they’re not making her childlike and fetishizing her. They’re simply just trying to express her emotion in the proper way - children aren’t necessarily extremely serious and angry, because they were once in empress be fr bruh
I LOVE YOU DOROTHY AAAAAAAAAAA
Best parts of this story:
The themes of love and being unlovable
Relationship between Ray and Dorothy (legit cried at "I'm here to kill to Ray")
Relationship between Dorothy and her knight (Uh oh the kid you picked up is suicidal)
Ethan is a little freak (affectionate)
DOROTHY DOROTHY DOROTHY DOROTHY she just wants to do what's right
They're are parts I dislike, but I binged it and I have to go to school in like twenty minutes
This monologue really shed a new light on our protagonist. No matter what she chooses, it is to serve someone. To make someone else happy. While everyone is trying to kill her, sell her off or possess her, she doesn't for once think, that it is unfair. In her eyes, the problem is not that people are using her, but that she's not useful enough to be used by everyone. I hope that maybe Shinpei will show her how to be more selfish, instead of just being happy that she's his
I don't dislike Perez, but everyone besides him has such an interesting character design. The artist goes through the effort of recreating these Medici like dresses, totally immersing you to the story's period, only for Perez to show up with his 2020 k-pop/ can't see though bangs haircut. I think if he was more expressive, it wouldn't be so striking, but in this chapter he glares at the queen, someone who just nearly forced his one true love into a marriage with someone else, someone, who's likely an enemy, and his face doesn't change at all! You can't just put blue gradient on a guy, type "glares" next to his face and expect it to mean anything!
I totally agree with you wit!!! the Kpop character design treatment. And it not just Perez who suffers this, most of the men in the story (and other stories)have these clean cut hairstyles and default to tuxedo/military Victorian suit styled outfits.
But I also understand the treatment??? Because they would be sporting mustaches & beards and ugly bobs, tights and bedazzled codpieces. A mustachioed Perez would look so much older than Tia and by our modern sensibilities we would find it uncomfortable to see.
But I think the author is doing a good job of balancing the modern and the medieval fashion with the flourishes and texture of fabrics. Because no one needs to see codpieces. And we all know the shitty men in the story are gonna go around peacocking around.
"There's something I need your approval for."
He needs her to of approve him asking her dad for a hand in marriage
hahaha i was JUST about to comment this!!!!