Alys🌊✨

can i say that honestly i feel like amalias character degraded over the seasons? like we went from snarky princess you can still hold her own weight by fixing problems in a less offensive way (and still being able to rock your shit) to whatever the FUCK season 3 has going on.

i firmly believe that the ship felt super rushed bc the writers knew they shouldve been focusing on literally anything else. like yeah we COULD focus more on the weight of her leaving her father or we can make her say "i know youre a man in your heart" to the 22yr minor.

yes!!! thank you!!! i love amalia ... they could never make me hate my glorious queen, all the other yumalia haters who dislike her are fake as shit

but yeah... the only way the writers could conceive of making this ship (yumalia) work was by changing everything about both characters, which usually means. hey. maybe these characters aren't in fact meant to be in a relationship.

amalia went from a snarky princess who, underneath her selfish exterior, deeply cares for those around her and will do anything for the people she loves, to Yugo's Love Interest who is . like . occasionally sassy when the writers feel like giving her something to do.

going from amalia's whole family dying to her getting married to yugo without any in-between scenes of her grieving, and simultaneously making her coronation (which should have been both a momentous and somber occasion because HEY!!! she's finally queen but also hey. her whole family had to die for her to achieve this) all about her relationship with yugo for fanservice drove me NUTS. like. the revelation that she's now queen is basically an afterthought. i haven’t read the great wave because it lowkey just looks like the Yugo Show but i don’t expect anything has changed there.

speaking of; yugo isn't exempt from bad writing either because he barely feels like the same person he was in s1 (don’t claim character development because he’s actually gotten WORSE). they consistently give him all this weird, unresolved turmoil about burdening amalia with his affection that makes him mess with her emotions for the entirety of s3 and also be Intentionally Cruel to her FACE and it's like. hello he would Not do That stop orchestrating weird pointless drama that just mischaracterizes both of them. the s3 finale where they "resolve" this is weird and anti-climatic aswell.... like WHY is amalia apologizing to HIM??? he was being awful

also, the fact that they had to age yugo up before the characters got married will always be hilarious because you just know the writers were like oh shit guys. she can't marry this little boy what the fuck were we thinking. quick, think of a plot device we can use to make this Not really Creepy.

i will admit, though,, the initial idea for them being together is kind of fun. like. lovely sunshine boy x snobby princess who is just as sweet as he is beneath her bratty exterior. and he loves her because Deep Down he can SEE how kind she really is,, and she admires him for his unconditional selflessness. THAT’S cute. i would've liked that. but atp i'm just thinking they'd be so much better as friends.

they have one of those relationships where i'm kind of staring at the screen like. really . i'm supposed to believe THESE TWO are in love. when you've given me zero incentive or reason for believing that . OK. so you're lying to my face basically. the scene in the ova where yugo is all, "ughh i've been in love with her all these years" positively BAMBOOZLED me as a kid like omfg stop LYING.

if you’re going to put them in a relationship or claim that yugo was in love with her for years at least have some appropriate build up. don’t even mention those scenes in the first two seasons where romance is like. moderately implied (i use the word implied LOOSELY) OR the manga because i’m 99% sure it’s been retconned now. they came out of nowhere and i’m dying on this hill.