Goes from not very interesting to outrageous. Romance kind of sucks so far (I think the general consensus is that the ML is to blame for that: his lack of a personality and sheer audacity in how he treated his wife during her miscarriage)
[ MAIN CHARACTERS ]
🪻Märchen Lainswaine
- calm, caring, elegant
- still has memories of person she possessed
- neglectful and verbally abusive father
⚔️ Eins Lainswaine
- zero expression, self hating,
- extremely emotionally stunted
- traumatic past: abusive family
🕊️Athel Terka
- teasing, lighthearted
- face always covered by hood
- oddly close with ML. No one knows why
- magician in priest garb?
[ ASPECTS / TROPES ]
- possession in another world
- no communication on the ML’s part
- way too many lies
- magic and cloaked figures
- FL slowly recovering person’s last memories
- the OG FL and ML were assassinated
- Monsters
- a scheming second prince
- missing people
Why do the kids of the OG main characters have white hair? The mother (OG FL) had yellow-blonde hair while the father (OG ML) had brown hair. How did they get white-haired kids? Felt a little forced like the author was trying to make it look even more that the children belonged with Marachen (current FL) after the parent’s death.
Also why do they lie to the kids and not tell them that their parent’s have passed. The kidnapper managed to tell them faster than the couple that had them for perhaps weeks.
NOTE: following contains spoilers
Also yeah, the ML is…not great…
He gets drunk, mistakes Märchen for his love (the OG FL who was getting married) despite her saying that he had mistook her for someone else. He has sex with her and she finds out she’s pregnant.
She marries him to protect the unborn child (their relationship quite cold because she knows he’s still in love with his ex — the OG FL) but has a miscarriage after a few months. She’s heartbroken and grieving, crying over graves she made for her lost child…and the ML…does nothing.
Then in what he thought was a stroke of genius 😒 (hint: it was not) he brings his ex-lover’s kids to her. She’s justifiably even more heartbroken at the reminder of her lost child. Then he realises it was actually him that wanted to see his ex’s kids 😑 and instead of apologising or LITERALLY ANYTHING he leaves her crying alone in the dark of her room. 🤦🏻♀️
[ CONTENT WARNINGS ]
Death, blood, torture interrogation, miscarriage, grief, kidnapping, child trafficking