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Okay... I'm about to get roasted... I have been thinking, and here is my updated take:
I still feel incredibly sorry for Aurora! And I'm protecting her.
WHOA WHOA WHOA!!
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Yes. But...
Not as a person. Because she does not have any development or traits to even talk about her as something human. It is as if she never even got a chance!
I defend her as a character — or a piece of plot machinery that could have meant a lot to me. In theory... My man literally got the only thing that made him happy ripped away from him. Am I mad? FUCKING RIGHT I AM.
(╯°□°)╯«hypocrite!» ︵ «YES!!» ヽ(°□°ヽ)
She just got unlucky enough to become an active player in a story about the Brotherhood that has been dying for a while now, which honestly is pretty standard these days.
And I know what you are probably thinking:
«It is one thing to pity a character who started out good and then got ruined. It is another thing entirely to pity a character who was always a shitty blank slate and then got made even worse»
But even if she was a total piece of shit ten times over, I still hate watching those overdramatic violence scenes that do not seem to serve any actual purpose. Where a character exists purely to be hated!
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Let us take a couple of obvious examples:
Adamai. He did a ton of horrible things and got forgiven way too easily, in my opinion. But he still has a fanbase — thanks to his past self and a few genuinely defined traits that make him feel like an actual character.
Oropo. An even better example of an unpleasant character. But even he was given some self‑loathing, those flashbacks with the Brotherhood of the Forgotten, personal breakdowns, and at least some grudges to work with. This guy even got a whole OVA just so the audience could understand just how complicated he is. If you asked him, «What the hell, man, why are you like this?» he would actually give you a canon answer. Even if you thought his answer was complete nonsense, at least he tried to justify himself.
Aurora, though? She has no backstory, no personal struggles, no attachments. The way she acts toward her dead husband's family and kingdom pretty much proves she did not even care about Armand. She shows no regret, does not even try to awkwardly justify herself. And that does not piss me off. It just makes me sad! She is being used as a spit in the face to the audience. Aurora was not even given a chance to be anything other than a villain.
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The funniest part? Tot has tried to justify plenty of genuinely fucked up things other characters did. But now, out of nowhere, we get a villain whose only job is to absorb pure, unfiltered hate from the viewers.
For example, I find it absolutely hilarious that in the same manga, in consecutive chapters, we get:
Adamai. A guy who, not long ago, killed Persedale, beat up a pregnant Eva, kidnapped a child, destroyed a home, and live‑streamed himself choking Yugo's best friend. And all he had to do to be forgiven was flash a dumb smile and give an awkward apology — so that in the next chapter, he could sit all saintly at a wedding, happily sipping wine, concerned about Yugo's wellbeing, as if he had not been beating his brother with pure sadistic joy a season earlier.
Aurora. She betrayed her people and kingdom to save herself. Came back out of nowhere to claim the throne, using her pregnancy as leverage — low and shameless. Snapped at a servant, and... that is it. Then suddenly she is painted as a crazed maniac who always dreamed of killing Amalia! Immediately thrown into a full‑on brawl, and naturally punished for her audacity with a brutal face‑beating.
Is it because she is a female character, Tot??
Or because you are so obsessed with showing pregnant women getting beaten, except the pregnant Eva thing already got old, and the audience did not share your enthusiasm?
Because I genuinely do not see the point of this scene otherwise. If taking the throne was that easy, they could have done it through Bonta without dragging the Corvus family into it... ???
To me, both of these characters just look like unhinged little shits with no clear motivation for their actions. And I genuinely do not understand the logic behind this selection — who gets to be "redeemed" and receive the coveted «YOU JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THEM!!!» treatment, and who gets to be used as a mindless punching bag for emotional extraction, with zero depth?
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My issue isn't even that Aurora acts like a bitch. It's that she acts like that for the sake of a poorly written political arc, just so she can be a villain for Amalia and Yugo to face. Just to get on the nerves of the yugomalia fans...
And now that I've cooled down a bit, I'm NOT telling people to «calm down their anger toward Aurora». I just think there's no point in endlessly discussing how awful she is.
Think of it this way: it's fucking insulting how they keep portraying a woman in such a dumb and degrading way!
Plus, it honestly scares me how they're bringing up the whole motherhood topic again. Beating up a pregnant woman is Tot's favorite trick. Not surprised.
But Amalia suddenly falling into someone's arms and screaming about endless happiness at the suggestion of having a child? That's the cherry on top 🍒👌(˘▾˘ )
Terrifying...
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Anyway. Aurora is cardboard, no chance of redemption. But I will keep her as a seed of an idea and use her in my own interpretations.
Because I believe that treating cardboard like that is just disrespectful to the material!!! It is like watching an artist stomp all over their own canvas with muddy boots, just to make your teeth grind. Use the canvas for what it is for, you fucking hack!
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