Ruby-Roses-World

Hi everyone! I was finally able to get my hands on the Chinese novel limited edition and I had to make a post about it because everything just looks so cute <3

Actually, I wanted to get vol. 1 as well, but it already was sold out everywhere…

This edition is so so beautiful! I especially like it because if you look very closely you can see they added “blessing and glory upon the obelian empire” on the box. I don’t know if this present in other editions as well but it’s such a cool detail.

These are the other merch included:

transparent poster, front and back!

Claudiana poster 🥹

athanasia’s acrylic stand and pin

lucas and ijekiel’s cards

wmmap stickers (was too lazy to show them all lol)

Aaand this was the merch which shocked me the most? At first I thought it was something similar to a keychain but when I opened Athy’s package, I could smell a strong and sweet scent from it… I guess it is an air freshener! You know, the ones you put in your cars…

(Maybe someone pointed it out before, but I didn’t know at all lol)

That was all guys! Here is something else I got hehe:

How Wealthy are the Jane Austen Heroines?

(This turned into a long post)

Women in Jane Austen’s novels have two kinds of wealth, fortunes which seem to be guaranteed to already accompany them into marriage, like Emma’s 30k or Elinor & Marianne Dashwoods’ 1k which they have already received from their uncle, and then eventual inheritance, like Elizabeth’s 1k that she will receive after the death of both of her parents. Here are the sums:

And the explanation of each amount:

Mr Verdandi and Duke Eckhart, when they were young 🔮⚜️

The original art belongs to SUEUN (@A_Sueune on Twitter). What Marquis Verdandi looks like is just my guess!

Winter's father is mentioned only once, in chapter 68 of the novel (or chapter 63 of the manhwa).

All that is said is that Winter was still very young (I think around 18-22 years old) when he lost his father. Also, the good relationship between Winter and Duke Eckhart was explained by the fact that the duke was friends with the former Marquis Verdandi. But what was the cause of the elder Verdandi's death?

However... what if Winter's father died fighting the Laila clan? Could he also have been a sorcerer? Was he as ideological and charitable as his son?

Most people know what a powerful wizard Winter really is. But he couldn't have learnt everything on his own, could he? Someone had to guide him and teach him how to control magic. Could it have been his father or his wizard friends? According to Verdandi himself, people who have a lot of mana cannot be called wizards if they do not know how to control it.

Okay, I think Winter has taken a lot from his father, but I'm interested to hear your opinion on this and the interaction between the Duke and the past Marquis...

By the way, is Winter's mother dead too?

In this world, it's not enough that fathers don't have their own names, but all the mothers of the main characters are killed here???

P.S. (with spoilers) I just realised that the Duke had seen his wife, daughter, and best friend die, and then he had seen his son almost killed. That the duke himself was almost eaten by a monster, and that he also survived the war... and then realised how he had ruined the lives of his children...

Listen, we need a separate post about Duke Eckhart. He's also an interesting character, but he doesn't have his own name.

I ALSO LOVE THE LAZARUS PITS IN IT i love how they’re done and i love the idea of them only being able to be used three times. DC likes to change its mind a lot about the pits it used to be. They could be used once then they could be used continually; at one point they could only be used as like certain times. It's pretty much something you can pick and choose about and I like how they’re done here. I also love the idea of Talia being one of probably multiple people with the sole duty of protecting each pit. Like I know at the end of the comic she goes about destroying them but even that is pretty cool I think and I wish we got to see more of it.

I really think that when she’s not clouded over but Ra’s or Bruce or Damian we really get to see more of Talia as a character and not as an extension of some other person, the first thing we see her do in the comic (DC Bombshells: United 16) is take down a massive Goddam minotaur tell me that’s not awesome I dare you.

In general my biggest issue with both DC and the fandom, especially the fandom, when it comes to Talia is she always gets lumped in with other characters she’s never really a person herself she’s always just used as a relationship, a evil villain or a love interest or a mother but never as a character on her own like she deserves to be.

Seriously, this really gets on my nerves.

A massive part of Talia's character was that search for freedom, to be more than what Ra’s wanted her to be while struggling with her loyalties to him. She wasn’t just torn between Bruce and Ra’s she was torn between her loyal nature and her love for her father and the idea of having a free life and of having a life of her own. So what I love about this comic is we get to see her with that freedom, nobody is making her guard the pits, it's what she’s choosing to do as she later on chooses to go off with Cheetah to destroy the other pits and she can do all of this without being overshadowed with other characters.

How the league (or league equivalent) are shown in DC bombshells is another thing I love. At the current point in the timeline it’s suggested that Talia is the only one left. Ra’s is mentioned once but never by name and never shown so we know he was there at some point but nothing else is said about him. In Bombshells the league aren’t a violent group they’re just a group of people who took over the duty of guarding the pits and protecting them from the outside world

Either way this is my favourite version of Talia, it’s my favourite universe she’s in and because my opinion is always right that means that this IS the best version of her and I’m so mad we never got more of her in bombshells and also that everyone in the fandom seems to collectively ignore it and I really think a lot of people are missing out because of that.

ALSO i want bombshells Talia and Selina to kiss ok thats it end of post.

Reason #1 to love Callisto Regulus:

BE CAREFUL! THIS CONTAIN SPOILERS!