beta
add the lord and theyd form the dumb triad the only serious character so far is just ML with a mystery to his background and being caught in a conspiracy hahaha. anyway i didnt expect to be enjoying this so much AND find a unified period costuming. all the italian renaissance dresses MC and her lady wears are so pretty im being indulged with these idk cohesive costuming in webtoon gives me a serotonin surge lmao
SAME!! Not only cohesive costuming, but when they clearly take inspiration from specific time periods and/or cultures to make it work better... it makes me so happy.
A Stepmother's Marchen & The Secret Lady give a slight more of a fantasy vibe but are clearly inspired by a certain time period, and I genuinely love it so much (I've had both series on hiatus for a while now so I def need to catch up). I Will Change The Genre/The Villainess Flips The Script is also one of my favourites by following a rule that most historical manwhas don't: the fact that most of the time, ladies keep their hair up/tied, only letting it down when they're sleeping (or some other specified event), at least for the most part. It's something I noticed early on and it's a detail I really adore.
Though my favourite for costuming and hairstyles has to be I'll Be The Matriarch In This Life/I Shall Master This Family... Italian renessaince dresses and outfits are so pretty and the art does it so much justice, and the fact that we also get to see the men wear clothing from the same time period (compared tot he usual generic historical fantasy outfits we get for them) is just *chef's kiss*
I'm genuinely so happy to see another series use the time period as inspiration/base for the setting.
Sorry to go off a bit, I'm always so excited to find someone else who appreciates/gets happy about these kinds of things lol (￣∇￣")
ML went from "prince hiding in plain sight" to "coward who marriage-trapped an independent woman" cause wym he bound adele WITHOUT telling her??? it was fine cause i was normal level annoyed when to the very end, he never admitted who he is with his own mouth while MC was already throwing your highnesses at him, but then he revealed that he had them bound together by an intricate magic bond without her consent by deception???? is it not enough for killian to take a stab on adeles integrity, taking her for a fool who wont discover his secret, even though he had witnessed firsthand what cunning clever ironfisted person MC is, he insulted her again by exercising the magic he use to trap her???
i mean obviously no romance fantasy webtoon is ever going to have a separated main couple but now adeles entire character hinges on how she's going to respond to killians insult on her judgement and her dignity as his wife. if she does nothing then shes has no self respect, if she divorces him, shell lose everything including the right to succeed her father until she finds another to marry to fill the inheritance clause.
i just...cant believe my eyes cause killian was an okay, swoon worthy at some points even, ML!!! though the main show of this webtoon is still MC, killian as ML didnt have anything quite bad to him. his character and his relationship with MC would have met a light at the end of the tunnel if he backs down and say "yes i kept things from you, but i have reasons, and if youd like ill tell them to you" or he can even just say sorry but noooooo he whips out the magic shackles instead
wait her daddy ass too cause he has 3 children from 3 different babymamas and yet imposed that the heir to the estate must be married???? what is he gonna do if MC had stood her ground and let noella marry first? is he gonna let his business run aground with a daughter who has never dipped a toe in the family business or what he hasnt apologised to her either for keeping mls secret from her, only the psycho brother seems to have a decent courtesy how ironic
On the point about the dad, Ngl I think it’s an obvious point by now that he cares for MC the most. I think it’s worth noting that of all the mothers, the only one he married is MC’s (who died when she was very young, I think it’s implied to be from childbirth or sometime around then. This might indicate that either he had to marry her, which may have been the case and he was never in love with anyone, or that he cared about her enough for her to be special. This man is wild like MC and probably could have seen his way around a contract marriage unless it was too much trouble, but we really don’t know anything about his history), and he immediately declared MC to be his successor (he could be lying but we’ve seen at times that while MC is correct in identifying how much he cares about money, she’s often wrong in measuring how much he cares about his family).
I’m sure he also would have seen how Noelle would have run the family business(es) into the ground and they would have just kept pushing back succession until MC fulfilled them or just done away with it altogether. MC has been outstanding since practically birth, and everyone (including him, who probably knows exactly how each of his children are) was surprised that she had a loss at all. I’m of the opinion that he just never told her bc he thought it was a foregone conclusion that everything would go smoothly, and that if it was genuinely a problem, he would have done away with the tradition. It would lose him money after all to not make MC the heir (though I’m sure he would have pressured her into marriage if she didn’t really hate it bc he really wants a grandchild).
On the last point, I’m sure he either doesn’t feel guilty or knows his daughter doesn’t know and doesn’t want to eat a loss for nothing. He’s kind of a terrible person to even his own kids tbh
I'm with you for this one cuz in every 'independent fl' manhwa the fl is never really independent