#dantes

What you are looking at, ladies and gentlemen, is a couple panels from a popular romance manga called "Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku." I know nothing about it whatsoever, basically, except...well...I now know it exists. XD Anyway, no, your eyes do not deceive you: that is Leona Kingscholar, my beloved lord and master, making a totally out of nowhere cameo. THAT'S NOT THE WEIRD PART. The weird part is that he only makes a cameo in the original Japanese release (this is a fan translation). I can't find a really good quality image to share of this, but it's confirmed that in the official English release, his cameo is replaced, by...Edmond Dantes, from Fate/Grand Order. Who one of the characters actually DOES cosplay as...

Why is Fernand always ALWAYS the bff of Edmond in every single adaptation? Like, in the books they pretty much meet literally before the almost-wedding of Edmond and Mercedes, and they don't even like eachother much. It's pretty much stated that even Edmond who is benevolent af is only putting up with Fernand because he is the cousin and best friend of his fiancee, and he wants to form a friendship based on their shared love of Mercedes. But like he is not completely blind and knows that Fernand gives him the stink eye. As for Fernand, he is super vary around Dantes and Mercedes has to essentially beg him to be nice to him.

And historians think they were best friends ?!?!

In fact, book Edmond is super kind but he is not THAT stupid. He knows that Danglars is highkey jealous of him, he knows Caderousse is planning to exploit him (as his landlord) after finding out he got a promotion, and he KNOWS that Fernand isn't his biggest fan. He is just amicable with them and polite but doesn't genuinely consider them friends or trust them at all. He only trusts his father, Mr. Morrel and Mercedes, that's it. And Villefort because he doesn't think that being honest with an officer of the law will result in him being fucked over. Which is completely reasonable, and most people would do the same.