My mage would be down for this. But she’s totally falling for F… possibly the F/Y poly.
This is where my mage gets off your train. She is no longer loyal to them. They got their rocks off on watching her burn to death. The man she loved turned on her. Fuck them all. Leon is a dead man walking. Ante is dead, too. The rest of Param can live as long as they stay out of her way and leave her people (now Arcadians) alone. But if things go to hell for them, they better not look for her to save them. Let them live with their choices. Or die with them. It doesn’t really matter to her anymore.
The only ones she’d actually help are Aunt Bess (who she loves), Ilya, and Saine.
I want that unhinged thing to come out when my mage encounters Ante and Leon again. When she’s finished, there’d only be specks of dust floating in the air. Then, I can see her calmly turning to F and asking if he wants to go get hammered.
It seems to me that Saine doesn’t care for Leon anymore and probably wouldn’t care if he was killed either. The reason why he took the ambassadorship was that he could stay away from Leon at all times and I think it’s been mentioned that whenever Ilya is near Leon, she kind of acts cold towards him
Nope I don’t think they’d be ok with that but the thing is my mage will not let anything get in the way of his revenge so I guess his relationship with Ilya and Saine end when he got burned on a pyre
I don’t really care either way, nor does my MC. The way my mage looks at it, as long as they (Ilya and Saine) don’t get in her way when she goes after Leon and Ante, there won’t be trouble. If it’s at all possible, she’ll do it without them being the wiser until the deed is done. If they get pissed off, so be it. But she wouldn’t be apologetic at all…
“If you think being burned alive by the man you were in love with is something you can forgive and forget, then you need your head examined. Now get the fuck out of my way.”
Leon and Ante wanted to make the mage a villain. Well, what they made was a lifelong enemy. And their days are numbered, if my mage has a choice.
Before I respond, please try to combine posts instead of posting two things directly in a row without anyone else responding in the middle. If you wish to get someone’s attention, you can @ their ID.
What I said was that my MC would prefer Saine and Ilya to know nothing until she has already brought justice to Leon and Ante, who outright murdered her when she had bled for Param and its people OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
Look, if you want to see Leon as some great hero, who was perfectly in the right to burn their friend or lover alive–which is a horrible way to die, by the way–then that’s great for you. That’s part of the fun in analyzing media. Different people see it different ways.
In the story I read, from my own POV, I saw a mage who did the right thing time and again, who sacrificed and bled for Param, who was loyal to Leon and her friends, and what did she get for everything she did? Did she get the benefit of the doubt? Nope. Did Leon try to find out what was going on other than going into a cell and yelling at the mage? Nope.
Instead, he said fuck it. He didn’t kill the mage in a quick and painless (or mostly painless) manner, he killed her in the most painful way he could find and he did so without any remorse until the mage was already dead and the truth came out (and I felt no sympathy for him then, either). That was murder, outright murder and Leon–again, in my opinion–should pay for it. As should Ante, who egged him on and tried to turn him against the mage from the very beginning because she’s an evil sack of shit.
So, bottom line, this is between the mage and Leon. Saine and Ilya were caught in the middle before, when Leon murdered the mage. My mage doesn’t want to put them in the middle–it’s not their fight and she already knows they won’t want her to do what she plans to do. They may forgive her, they may not. Either way, she’ll be fine with it because there must be retribution for Leon’s actions, and she intends to see it done.
Edited to add:
I don’t expect them not to care. Neither does my MC. But how they feel about the matter doesn’t matter in the slightest to me or to my MC. That’s their problem. If they can’t understand why my MC wants Leon dead, that’s their problem.
This is what I was talking about above. There’s no need to post a separate post with a bunch of carets. You can either @ the person you’re talking to or you can quote them, then have your say. The posts with all the carets are basically spam. Please stop.
I’d say that Mireil really did love the Mage. It may have been buried under a ton of other complex feelings and her inferiority complex, but Mireil is shown to care. She didn’t have to put in any effort if her plan to mind control the Mage was truly endgame.
And as for whether Saine and Ilya being on our side or not, I have the feeling that they might not care at first, but when the ball gets rolling and people they are personally close with, they’ll eventually object. It also depends on what the Mage’s circumstances are. A willing Mage who is either consumed by revenge or indifferent to Arcadia’s plan would probably upset Saine and Ilya. But a Mage who is being strong armed into the plan would definitely have their sympathy.
That Saine and Leon are currently not on speaking terms in no way implies that lil bro will be ok if the mage breaks throught a window and shoots a fireball in the face of golden boy. I believe it is certain that if the identity of the Mage was revealed Saine would perfectly understand the fury and resentment they would feel agaisnt Param, but even still, from that and not caring about some nutjob wizard murdering your family there is a pretty long jump.
Equally so, Illya being ok with the player character taking revenge on the kingdom is absolutely impossible as I see it. Like, man, I would even see her positioning herself against the Mage even earlier than Saine just for the sake of saving the innocent lives you may potentially take in your quest for revenge. You all seem the forget that, wrong or not, we are talking here about war veterans with a very strong sense of morals and ideals, peopled used and willing to make hard decisions.
my theory is that getting out of altinier’s lab/meeting tahlia was the big turning point in mireil and mc’s relationship. even though altinier had already put the idea of mc being superior to her in mireil’s head, she was so much older and more capable that she didn’t feel threatened by mc. i think that when the three of them were in the trenches together, it really was all for one and one for all; i feel like you kind of melt together like a pack of gummies in the car under such circumstances.
once mireil meets tahlia, though, i think her aims fundamentally change from seeking survival/protection to seeking power. it makes sense to me that mireil would look at tahlia and see a person who is never again going to get hurt in the way that mireil hurts and want that badly enough for herself to do whatever it takes to get it. i guess over the time they lived with the duke, she stopped seeing mc and eli as apart of her “us” and instead as a “them” she’d need to eliminate if she ever wanted to achieve that kind of power.
as a divorce enjoyer myself, i am so appreciative that amr gives us so many relationships that sour like milk in the sun!
To double down on this point, I think it’s really tragic how in the very end Miriel was ultimately abandoned by everyone who cared for her/she cared for. It was a consequence of her actions yes, but in the end I think she severely regrets it shown by her remembering the fond times of her childhood and Tahlia, and in the very end she’s abandoned completely by Tahlia as well for the very same reasons she was tossed aside by Altinier. The MC is fundamentally more talented because of their bloodline, it’s what causes Altinier to double down on his experiments with the focus on MC, and it causes Tahlia to completely abandon Miriel for the ability to utilize the MC’s talent. It would have made perfect sense for her to be brought back as she would have been under Tahlia’s complete control and she is powerful enough individually to damn near destroy param which is the Arcadians goal.
Om patreon it says the demo update for November has gone live on dashingdon 4 days ago. Since patreon demo was already updated, i assume this one is for public. Why hasnt the author been posting updates on here or tumblr??
Edit
Nothing on the demo changelog, so not updated yet then
On another note I wanted to read the patreon update, but for some reason I can’t subscribe to the AMR’s patreon? Is it just a problem on my end or is it intentional? Anyone else with the same issue?
edit: I’m able to subscribe now, not sure what changed but I guess trying again now might work
You ain’t alone. I can’t join Patreon either. If I could, I’d love to support the author monthly, even if it’s just a few dollars a month, while I get to enjoy the latest updates on Patreon demo.
Oh I see. I was confused since someone said the author planned to release the public demo update mid November so I thought the latest post was about the public demo but now the patreon demo is at 2.6 while public is at 1.0 and there has been no further updates from the author either here or tumblr
