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Thesarum
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Soapy? You bet! Makes it fun.
Rashta is much maligned as "Trashta", but I mostly just feel sorry for her. She's neive, but offered no real protection by Sovieshu as she falls into the clutches of people with very malign intent and this leaves her few good options. She struggles valiantly to find a solid footing for herself in the very alien environment, but is induced by others into making bad choices that only serve force her into worse ones. She expected a fairytale, and in a lot of other stories she'd be the plucky commoner heroine who caught the eye of the prince and triumphed despite the snobbery of the aristocracy and the bitchy villainess fiancee. Instead she gets a horror story. There's no such excuses for Sovieshu though. He's no idiot, and knows the workings of power and the palace well. But he only sees both Navier and Rashta in terms of how they relate to and reflect on him. Selfish, conceited, and unwilling to see either woman as a person. He thoroughly deserves the pain of his downfall when it comes. |
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whiskeyii
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^All excellent points; I've pretty much fallen off this series (so many things competing for my time these days), but I think "Trashta" gets too much of a bad rap. While some of the mistakes she makes are of her own doing, they're influenced by a sense of inferiority that is caused by Soveishu's machinations. (In another story, she and Navier would bond over being played for fools and stride off into the sunset, alas!)
That said, manwha are notorious for giving male characters a pass for bad behavior, and I'm a little concerned that may become more prevalent in later chapters, but I'm waiting to see how this wraps up; hope it sticks the landing! |
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MFrontier
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The funny thing is I've at least some online reception that posits Rashta as more popular than Navier precisely because she's less perfect, more messy, and more fun than the Too-Perfect and Poised Empress and her bird-transforming and subtly manipulative new beau.
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dmanatunga
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I actually gave up on the series cause of the "Trashta" stuff. Like she did wrong things, but it is not like she had the greatest of upbringings and seemed to be a product of her circumstances.
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Princess_Irene
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Full disclosure, I wrote this review a long time ago. I agree that Rashta is much more sympathetic as the series goes on - she was led on and is in a terrible position she doesn't understand. I do like Navier; if she's too perfect, it's because she was made that way. But Soveishu? He just sucks. There's no redeeming him.
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Thesarum
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Soveishu only sucks harder as the series goes on too. I like Navier too. I think she shows just enough vulnerability beneath her perfect empress mask to be likeable and believable. I think she's a good take on that villainesses archetype and what it'd be like to be in their head. (Not that she's evil or even unjustified, but that aloof long-established fiancée driven to be perfect is the classic villainesses setup) |
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whiskeyii
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This is honestly what pushed this series farther and farther from my mind, I think. It was a little too hard to get a read on whether I was meant to read him as a good guy as Navier’s new love interest, despite his side-eye worthy politicking. >.>And I didn’t much feel like sitting through a couple hundred chapters just to be disappointed, but if it does turn out alright in the end, then hey! I have a couple hundred chapters of something good to read! |
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