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.
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.
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...
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
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
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.
I think that more than the 4th mugo (I'll be calling him Ancient to make it easier) being the mix of the other 3, he holds the memories that connects all of them to the original. What I mean is that for some reason (trauma, spell, whatevs) Mugo's personality shattered into 4: the childish Mugo (Monster), the horny (teenager) impulsive Mugo, the mature but tired Mugo (Old Man) and the one who holds all the memories suppressed so they can continue living without despair and was waiting for his lover to return (Ancient).
My dear fellow readers, I NEED more stories like this one so can I as for a few (unlimited if you'd be so kind) recommendations of similar plots, characters, etc, please?
Excuse me, sir, you have no right to be bigger than me in the matters of chest.
Is this how the One Piece women felt when Oda confirmed that Zoro is top 2 in the ranking of the biggest chests?
Ok, I fcking hope that shit's going after Zanka because it somehow sensed Zanka being a key fighter to destroy it. Otherwise, I need to talk to the author because this smells like Sanji being animated by Toei.
After reading the rest of the series, I NEED THIS TO BECOME HAPPY AND SHOW ALL THE OTHER COUPLE'S STORIES INTERTWINED!
So if the story doesn't end soon I'm thinking we'll get the human's family story and mess (I'm so bad with names) and I'm pretty sure a kind of past-life plot where it gets revealed that the human's werewolf story is their past life's story.
However, I do need the cousin and the bodyguard's love story, pretty please. I wouldn't mind if the friends and the coffee guy also get their story. ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
I would've loved that teacher to be the one who will end up becoming the one she chooses at the end of she had to choose a male lesas he had no relation to any of her past deaths and he seemed to be a good person and then poof! He's evil and an idiot.
I feel like it's playing everything too fast. They fall in love in two days, she makes the antidote (which was supposed to not exist, she needed time and study and all that) work in the first try, now they're facing the villain who possibly cursed him.
What's next? They'll reveal she's a witch, somehow she'll kiss him true love magic, he'll say he knew all along she was a witch, they both will defeat the dark witch, people will realise there are good witches and they'll marry??
It feels so rushed as if the author doesn't know how to build momentum, how to keep on giving some twists and turns to the plot... Idk, I don't need their romance to be a slow burn but I also don't need or want it cooked at 1000 degrees for 2 seconds.
So... Anyone knows and would be a good person to share where we can find the novel and more or less the chapter of the novel we were left?
I imagine the next announcement "Oh, by the way, Lady Sarnez is gonna marry her clerical partner who will be marrying the Crown Prince because it's rampaging fire everywhere any time otherwise. Toodles!"