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In a Yandere off, my money would be on Isabella. She has much more experience as a ruler due to Henry's help and her father being a lazy bum.
Noblesse Oblige [Znt/SI]
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Well this is a temper tantrum of unprecedented proportions. Henry's so sure in his self-righteousness that he can't even wait a day to send Raven to contact Karin and see what's what before jumping straight to the mind control revenge option.
Were the shortened lifespans all to justify Henry viewing his mother as a damsel that needs saving?
Were the shortened lifespans all to justify Henry viewing his mother as a damsel that needs saving?
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Speaking as an Italian? That is very true
Bahn
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Put yourself in Henry's shoes. If your retiree-aged mother was drafted back into service to lead a force of 20k people against 50k, I'm pretty damn sure you wouldn't be thinking with a straight head either. Forget all the talks of how your mum is 'invincible', you're her kid and you most definitely know she ain't invincible/infallible.
When it comes to matters of loved family, almost anybody would lose their shit.
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He tested necromancy, not mind control.
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Henry started thinking about mind control when Josette whined about her Papa too. His ability to resist the temptation of One Ring to Rule Them All is clearly linked to his frustration level.
Bahn
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And? Thinking about doing something and actually going through with it are two totally different things. So your point about Josette and Charles are moot, cause in the end Henry didn't go through with it.
I'm just calling out the fact that you think Henry is throwing a temper tantrum of epic proportions. So what if he is? Almost anybody in his shoes would overreact in the face of what he just learned. Frankly? A story about someone who always reacts with calmness and hyper-competence to everything makes for a boring and unrealistic read.
(Looking at you Re:monster and so many Xianxia webtoon/novels)
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Why is Raven being a girl necessary for them to love Henry?
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- Malaysia
Won't he needs a body for that? I don't think Reconquista let the guy's body go just like that. Body desecration of hated royals is a thing in that time, no?
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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Oh please, she already decided to risk pissing off her neighbor, the largest one, when she decided to marry Wales and not go through with the marriage alliance, what's pissing off the Heavy Wind to that?
FTFY.
Bahn
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I think people want delicious delicious comedy gold if/when Raven is discovered to be a girl. Cue, Isa going all yan-yan, while we sit back and watch the the fireworks from the safety of our screens.
Well one is pissing off a foreign nation. The other is pissing off one of your biggest/most powerful supporters in your kingdom.
Let me put it this way. Pissed Germanian Emperor has a knife in his hand and brought along his posse and faces off against you. Pissed off Karin has a knife in her hand and stands right behind your throne (country) and can break a chair leg sending things tumbling down.
Now granted, it is hard to see Karin ever doing something like this, but hey, everyone has their breaking/tipping point. (How much you wanna bet Karin goes apeshit when she finds out Henrietta is looking to find, and exploit, her youngest daughter on the down-low.)
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And did I ever say the story was worse as a result of him throwing a tantrum? I agree that having temper makes Henry more interesting as a character. But a character being interesting in itself does not mean I have to agree with and praise everything they do.
If you yourself are willing to admit he's throwing a temper tantrum there should be no problem with another poster observing the same.
I disagree. They are very interesting and well done. What is so cool in emotional characters.
Bahn
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Ah~ I must have misinterpreted your tone when you wrote down your 1st post then. I came away with the feeling that you were saying the story was worse off because of him acting the way he did.
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A bit of a spoiler: minorgryph is absolutely a tsundere when it comes to my story. She'll put the like and then, to hide the fact that she enjoyed it,/she'll say something of the sort. Imagine her sentences with a stutter on the first word and a baka in the end, and all will be clear. XD
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@Bahn I'm told I lack tact irl as well so the miscommunication is probably as much my fault as the internet's inherent tone-deafening properties.
/runsawaycryingbaka
I type literal pages of my honest thoughts about your stories only to be called a tsundere...A bit of a spoiler: minorgryph is absolutely a tsundere when it comes to my story. She'll put the like and then, to hide the fact that she enjoyed it,/she'll say something of the sort. Imagine her sentences with a stutter on the first word and a baka in the end, and all will be clear. XD
/runsawaycryingbaka
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Bahn
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Emotional characters (characters that react realistically) means people you can relate to or hate, meaning you can put yourself in their shoes easier or hate them easier, meaning better immersion into the story itself as you learn to actually FEEL for them as people rather than as characters in a book.
I'm not saying all Xianxia-type stuff is shit/boring, there are exceptions, but for the most part all of them are so similar in execution it's like you read one, you've pretty much read em all.
Re:monster is a boring grind-fest of everyone sucking up to the badass-cant-do-wrong MC, training, conflict, resolution, rinse and repeat.
Really the biggest problem in Re:monster was him winning easily and collecting reward and girl after girl. There's no REAL challenge, no REAL conflict. I never came away with the sense of: will he fail here, how is he gonna get through this, etc.
Meaning I never became emotionally invested in Rou. Shit, replace Rou with any other OP-Generic MC and I wouldn't bat an eyelash. Shit, I felt so much more for Gobukichi from the beginning then I ever did Rou at any point until I dropped Re:Mon.
It's always, "What op shit is he gonna pull out of his ass this time?" That works for a comedy-centric style, but if you're going for an adventure/fantasy epic, then it really falls flat on its face unless you can find some other way to implement MEANINGFUL conflict.
Anyways, I just realized this is getting of topic. If you feel the need to respond then PM so we don't derail further, but eh, I'm pretty much done on this train of thought.
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Mockingly-Tricky
Ketchup Enthusiast
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@Bahn I'm told I lack tact irl as well so the miscommunication is probably as much my fault as the internet's inherent tone-deafening properties.
I type literal pages of my honest thoughts about your stories only to be called a tsundere...
/runsawaycryingbaka
The Tsun-Tsun Chronicles 2: The Tsun-kening
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
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This makes too much senseA bit of a spoiler: minorgryph is absolutely a tsundere when it comes to my story. She'll put the like and then, to hide the fact that she enjoyed it,/she'll say something of the sort. Imagine her sentences with a stutter on the first word and a baka in the end, and all will be clear. XD
You act like Henry hasn't been continually fucking Tristain over ever since he went to Gallia. For all that this marriage was meant to strengthen political ties between Gallia and Tristain, Henry is the one that started stealing from them and scalping key personnel.
Jackercracks
In a British accent
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- England
Those lives are already lost. Throwing more away for no real gain doesn't improve matters.
While his decision making process might involve a temper tantrum, his actual decisions are really very savvy. Understand: his goal in this war is not to defeat Reconquista, his goal is to gain land, power and money. Looked at from that lens, his decisions make perfect sense.
Henry is on a time limit before the wind stones destroy all of their countries, and the only way he's going to be able to avoid almost everyone dying is by having enough control and a strong enough grip over the various countries to force them to treat with the elves instead of launching a doomed crusade. So, Henry needs power and money, and land and cities are a good way to get that. At this point winning the war against Reconquista is entirely incidental to his goals, useful only as a stepping stone to other gains.
Madou Sutegobana
Autocorrupt has been disabled.
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- Twin Realms Mandala
Three chapters since I last logged in and I've only got past the first, so this is probably invalidated, bug Henrietta could quite probably take Albion with the forces she has and the elf substituting for Void Magic Shenanigans. Just like she did in Canon.
It's more likely she has instead run into trouble and is finding it more difficult by the time I catch up to the two chapters I haven't read, but her planning wasn't flawed.