Eat your greens

There is something deeply beautiful in the way Ligia's entire character tackles anti-blackness within the realm of fantasy, without being blunt or unsavory at all.

Her skin's riddled with beautiful multicolor scales that the rest of the counties would consider, for some reason, a perfect pretext to discriminate against her.

When we get close to Ligia, and she reveals her skin to the Sovereign as a show of trust, equality, and love, the first thing the Sovereign does is say her skin is beautiful.

It's so simple. So short. But very effective.

The fact that it is our black lady who experiences this is so significant. The obvious reality they have to live with becomes a symbolic plot point that highlights beauty, elegance, and tender trust.

I'm cackling at these two's relationship dude

Your sovereign and you develop a situationship when you're still a blockhead, which you think you can exploit to get away with your crimes.

But also they deal with The Devil to bring you back from the dead, causing others to die in your stead. Every time???

Oh, and then, they send you to fucking jail. They send you to PRISON after telling you "why didn't you tell me? I would've accepted you with all your flaws and debts". How humiliating

It'll change your life. Now you're obsessed with them, despite your fears of closeness and honesty. When you return after your debt is paid, you'll have the most tender, devoted affair in your life. AND they'll shag you in the kitchen.