I think one of the empress' mistakes was making people "loyal" to her through fear, abuse and threats. If she had been wiser she should have raised Astana to be loyal to her making him think that that is how he should be and being the power in the shadows that controls the empire through a puppet emperor by making him think that she IS wiser than her and all that. Also, if you're making sure that its your son who is inheriting the throne, make sure there's no other candidate. That or make sure the other child ALSO becomes a loyal puppet.
People are no different from animals, abuse them too much and they Will turn on you, feed them cookies and nice words and they will obey and protect you.
Also, stopping the killing of other babies would be helpful. She literally ended the lives of women and children, which crossed a real line. If anything, it proved her insecurity about her ability to become queen through skill, wit, and wisdom.
I dont think It's about insecurity or lack of ability. The Emperor rose to power by killing every single other member of the royal family, if I'm not wrong, so she was making sure that no other royal bloodline would get in her way and there would be no battle for the throne with the possibility of another child doing the same thing the Emperor did, specially if your plan IS to make your child dumb and useless without you...
I do feel bad for Astana because he was raised to be a future puppet emperor by his own mother. He grew spoiled because no one would dare defy his mother, and his mother needed a dumb son Who didnt know better and wouldnt think about going against her, so no one taught him better and was manipulated and emotionally abused.
I by no means think what he did was right or anything of the sort. However, I feel bad because he was made to be Evil and violent by the environment he grew up in.
One of my favourite quotes from a book I love is "I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me" and I think that applies to Astana. He had to grew up selfish because even though he was a prince he had no one really caring for him and was just raised to be a pawn with no education and no real good parental figure or someone to humble him down.
I know he was not really evil because he did realise from time to time that his mother's actions were wrong but he was also a child that had no power against his mother.
Many people are just in pain and by acting out they are just trying to protect themselves from being hurt more.
Again, I do not endorse his actions but I wonder how Astana would have turned out and what would have happened if Tía or someone else had helped Astana since he was little instead of just thinking he's the empress' son and another Angenas.
Same. I pity him. If only someone good (his nanny or maid or butler or teacher) influenced him just like how Tia influenced Perez, he won't grow like now. Sadly there's nobody like that. Astana's current life is too cruel, I hope the author make another story where Astana knows better.
What book did you reference?
Finally, someone said it. He was clearly being manipulation by his own mother and there were signs of abused too. The empress wants a foolish child, dumb enough that won't oppose her. Spoil him enough so that he will be "comfortable" of the pleasure of "power." I am not saying that his actions should be excused, he clearly deserves those consequences. But it clearly shows that raising a child properly is important. This could be applied to all children with the same situation as Astana, including Jovannes.
Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon. If you don't know the series, I suggest reading It, but I know there are A LOT of them so you can either at least read only the dark-hunter series and forget about all the other hunters or if you wanna read it as a stand-alone, read first Acheron and then Styxx. Also just in case, It has many triggers: mental health, self-harm, se+ual abuse among others...
I think the nameless recorder is the Information Broker, Kuro. It does make sense that that's why he knows so mucho of the past and present and why he's so powerful...
That's what I thought too and the panels with crows with it just make scenes
good point tho but the same symbol is really similar on the Head of the Cleaners (i forgot his name, the one with the cool locs). He is still a mystery to me cuz i remember there's this one panel that the eye blinked on the back of his head. I'm just really hype where all is this going
I don't know why but I feel like there are many mysteries and things that could have been explained and expanded to make the story a bit longer? Idk I like the end but at the same time it gives me the aftertaste of "it could have been more"
People are saying it's a typo but I thought it was a pun/joke/word-play(?) because MOM-ent = MEHEN-ent
I thought the same!
Somehow I still don't buy it was Seven who killed his parents. I have this hope that he THINKS it was him but it wasn't. I mean, Seven might have shot the parents but they were still alive because he missed vital points and flew the scene first because of the shock and then Romani (who was OBVIOUSLY there) was the one to finish them off and found out the existence of Felix and then it started right there his obsession with him?
Ok so... That flashback that Little A got has a pup that, somehow, seems to be REALLY similar, for some reason, to Fluffy and I am having FMA worst-dad-ever flashbacks with whatever shady shit is going on that we don't know yet
Went back to ch 11 and holy moly the pup d fluffy gor.the same white part on their chest and I'm concerned now...
I have a similar FMA vibe so i have this theory that maybe for whatever reason the dog got chimerized with the uncles Boyfriend or something like that
Yeah same. All the other farmhands were humans first who then turned animals so it would make sense that Fluffy was the same. Still the similarities with the dog make it a bit uncanny, so yeah the whole chiemra thing sounds closer? Tho idk how tf that could have happened
So I feel kind of conflicted with all that laying Little A's children/chick because if they keep doing it but the eggs are like normal non-fertilised eggs, would he eat them? Would they give them away to the association? I just kind of feel it as disturbing and weird??? I don't have a problem with breeding kinks (I really like them) but now I'm so confused and feel weird about all that??? It's just... imagine telling your child "If you hadn't been fertilised I would have eaten you for breakfast"??
Why is my brain this weird? How do I turn these intrusive thoughts off???
I love how all(most) of us read the title and didn't think about it twice UNTIL THOSE 47 CM APPEARED ON SCREEN.
I don't know how I read it but I know I laughed too much while in a call with some friends so I had to explain it and now they keep making jokes about the light saber and my body hurts from laughing too much.
Help.
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