Ive just started reading this, off the bat I dislike the bias fl shows towards Diana and Helios. I read the comments so I know they're the antagonists, but all Hestia knows atp is that Diana rejected him, then cut him off after he literally killed people.
Bad people yes, but it's her own choice if she doesn't want to be friends with a murderer who's in love with her.
It's shortsighted of the main character, and it would be nice if she gets proved wrong later and has to reflect for some character growth, but like I said I already read the comments so I don't think that's happening.
Diana dislikes the murderer who’s in love with her but has no problem benefitting from the murder lol
Read ch. 55 and see how ur mind changes about Diana lol shes a selfish b-
Girl Im not defending diana, my point is the mc is shortsighted at the start of the manwha because other than the fact diana cut off one of her friends after getting married, she literally doesn't know anything else about her.
Like the justification for her disliking the og fl at THE START I'm specifying the BEGINNING.
Is because she thinks it's unfair that diana didn't reciprocate ml's feelings, because he "did so much for her."
Like think about this logically, if two guys were in love with you and the guy you didn't like back did a bunch of stuff to win your affection, including killing someone, it makes sense to cut them off not only for your sake, but for his sake too.
Obviously I'm not saying this is what diana did, shes selfish and evil, what I'm saying is mc doesn't know just how selfish and evil she is yet.
I find it hard to root for her when she's clearly being biased without hearing out the other side of the story first.
I would've preferred mc gives diana the benefit of the doubt, and then gets proven wrong later, or even the other way around she hates her for bad reasons, and gets proven wrong later.
Whats lacking is character growth, a story is boring when the plot is so obviously contrived. I haven't even read the rest of the story and I already know how this is going to end, og fl being evil is just so overdone.
I'm not attacking anyone who enjoys this story, I just don't and I'm not gonna read the rest of it because of these reasons. You can enjoy a story and still be aware of its flaws.
I do see this point lol, Mc is def an obsessed fangirl type lmao not giving anyone else the benefit of the doubt, it’s just fun being a Diana/Prince hater lol
Yeah exactly, sometimes it's fun to watch dumb people doing dumb shit, sometimes I just get annoyed with the same dumb shit
Please don't jump me for this, but merize and azael's relationship have a pretty problematic power imbalance. Don't get me wrong, theyre cute and I like them a lot, but merize was literally dropped into the demon realm, held in a snowglobe, and then had a romantic relationship with the police officer who was monitoring her??
I feel like there were so many ways they could've told their story without it being so icky, like who in their right mind would get their wife pregnant knowing theres a good chance she could die, or get eaten alive by the people delivering her baby? WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THESE WRITING CHOICES
The power of love I guess
there was no way of telling their story without it being somewhat problematic. She is trapped in another world where her kind are eaten. Any relationship with the race that eats her kind can be viewed as problematic regardless of how slow it progresses
Thats very true, could've been a lot less problematic though. Off the top of my head, she could've been hiding her status as a human like Iruma, and organically fell in love with henri, the worst part in my opinion is the fact she was being confined in an observation facility and had a relationship with her bodyguard.
Iruma as a human also has organic friendships and relationships with other demons despite being a human, the author had a choice in writing henri and merize's relationship however they wanted, the fact that they chose this specifically just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
can’t deny it’s problematic, but it makes sense considering their situation. merize is trapped in the netherworld with no memory at all, so of course she would come to like the only person who treated her sincerely and even created spells to help her understand the demon language.
and henry is enamored with merize not only because she’s human, but also because she’s adorable. he even deludes himself into loving her enough to suppress his bloodlust through his romanticism.
so is their love healthy? of course not. should the author avoid writing it this way? no. it’s interesting to explore love in all its forms, healthy, unhealthy, or toxic, and demons obviously don't care about morality, look at clara in her wicked phase
Yeah I agree, in the end this is only a small part of the manga, I honestly doubt production cared enough to put that much effort into a side characters backstory. I'm pretty sure the editing team just threw ideas at the wall until something stuck, so unfortunately I doubt they're gonna explore any of the toxic connotations behind a relationship like this, which is a shame could that would be interesting to see.
I mean they did talk about it a little when one of the guys (I don't remember who) was like oh you only like her cause she's a tasty weak human, but they didn't really address it, henri just steamrolled through.
+I in no way think it's wrong for then to have fallen in love because like you said it's only natural, their love story being bad was never my point, I just hope they manage to wrap up this important story arc without it leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
THESE HOES TRYNA DISTRACT ME AYA DON'T FALL FOR IT HAVE THAT CONVERSATION
IM GETTING DISTRACTED
Not pathethic enough imo I thought he'd be kneeling on the floor, head to the ground begging for his forgiveness and clinging to his legs with tears streaming down his face
NOOO WHY WASN'T THAT THE OG PLOT IT'S BETTER THAN THE FIRST 50 CHAPTERS COMBINED
Not sure if him not having been a virgin would've made what you did that much less horrifying but go off I guess slay the boots down queen serve giving cunt
I wish that was me