No, I Don't Agree With You. But Please, Go On.

(Spoiler) TL1 Debutante

In the prologue chapters, Lari described that she might have been cute as a child, wearing ribbons, flower decorations, and girlish accessories (like now actually), when her hair got long and she became an adult, she stopped all that to act the role of a proper noble lady from House Belois. As an adult, she considered herself the furthest away from a pretty person - she had unremarkable features with pale, washed out light brown hair and eyes (compared to the rich dark brown characteristic of House Belois), and constantly had a serious expression on her face, and held proper posture at all times. Her expressions were easily displayed on her face, and thus her irritable nature was obvious for everyone to see. Under the watchful eye of her father, she never wore accessories and only dressed herself up simply with plain brown/dark colored dresses. Thus, Lari considered herself unremarkable in EVERY aspect: intelligence, beauty, character, appearance, fashion, even facial expressions.

It didn't help that at 15, she expected a lot of marriage proposals to start coming in for her, but they never did, even when she was 18, she never had a proper offer of marriage. It didn't make sense - as a daughter of a Count, just by having a title should make her desirable, even if she's not pretty or have a good personality, right? Even so, she was VERY excited for her debutante at 16 years old alongside Riche. This will be her first visit to the palace, and she can meet all the Capital Nobles - she was so excited at this opportunity! Her father didn't want to sponsor her, so she asked Aunt Amelia to because she had no one else to ask, and SHE REALLY WANTED TO DEBUT! Unfortunately, Aunt Amelia showed her the same care and consideration as in TL2 - which is she didn't care about Lari at all. She may have sponsored Lari under "House Belois", but it was utterly a disaster. Lari didn't know what it took to prepare for her own social debut, she didn't know the proper attire for it, she's never been to a ball before.. and thus.. the results were extremely disastrous. She was one of the main characters as a girl who debuted that day, but she appeared in one of her regular brown dresses - she even considered it shabby and worn out compared to the others - and she felt the sympathetic gazes of the girls and many ridiculing comments from others. She was left as a lonely wallflower who didn't socialize and dance with anyone, and no one offered to dance with her. It was utterly embarrassing. One person, Crown Prince Rupert, had introduced himself to her (Ch 6), and she was excited - but - she later realized he had known who she was, and just wanted to meet "Lariette of House Belois", and not "Lariette who just turned of age today". Even the Crown Prince had no interest in her as a person.

When she came back home from the TL1 debutante, it was VERY damaging to her self-esteem. She was convinced that no one would ever love her, she's failed as a lady of House Belois because she could never get married and have her own family. Even though she enjoyed reading romance novels, she concluded that it wouldn’t ever happen to her, and she didn’t want to dream of it anymore :(. But at least she has her beloved family who can take care of her, and she'll always be under her father's careful supervision to make sure she's safe, so that's ok, right?

In TL2, we see the trauma persisting - she didn’t bat an eye when Rupert called her fat/ugly at the start (because she really thought she was), she didn’t question it when he said she looked dumb so she was great for spying on the merchants (while he actually thought she would be a good choice because she was cute and the merchants would lower their guard around her).

During Rupert's crown Prince coronation event in Ch 76, Lari is very confident that no one will ask her to dance, and was fine with being in the background and not joining in the festivities. During the debutante arc starting in Ch 99, Lari's repeatedly said that she doesn't want one, she's scared of participating in it this year... and it gets to the point where Elaine and Rupert have to convince her to participate (they've been at it for 3 months!). She denied having House Belois and Aunt Amelia help out (they didn't offer anways), but she couldn't say no when Rupert himself offered to sponsor her. She finally opens up and admits to Rupert in the library that she's scared to attend, because what if no one invites her to dance? then it'll be a super embarrassing, shameful memory. But of course, Rupert tells her that if that happens, then she'll just have to dance with him then. ;)

Why are comments so hard to find now? I see a post I like and check on the comments only to find either none or some random thing that has nothing to do with why I interacted with the post in the first place. Like no thoughts, no engagement, no nothing? I notice this a lot more on Tumblr but this applies to other platforms too (ie: Youtube, Twitter, etc...)

Could just be a case of the post not having any views in the first place but c'mon man

Someone on here ranted about their dislike for when Percabeth fanfictions have Annabeth's favourite color be sea-green or like Percy's eyes, and referenced their own Annabeth's favourite colour to be Lavender. And now I read so many fanfictions that have Annabeth's favourite color be either yellow (another color they mentioned,) or lavender. So much so, that I don't know whether they're happy about it or not

While I love any form of writing, there's a particular fondness in my heart for simple writing. The type of writing that just lays things as they are, the characters thoughts, personalities, and everything else. Not to say I don't love or hate writing that overdramaticize's things, but there's something sweet about being compared to what you see in every day life rather than the unreachable stars above.

Lari's character development (spoilers throughout the series)

Lari is one of my favorite FL in any media. She's just so well characterized, where her character development occurs so organically and reasonably. Overall, through the story and Rupert's POV, we have a good idea of Lari's strengths that is briefly mentioned, but accumulate over time:

works hard, is diligent

tries her best

is a nice and warm, overall a good person

studious and able to problem solve

mastered etiquette (the only skill she had from TL1)

able to learn politics overtime, and has a good idea of leadership

knows how to influence high/society with nobles (in combination with Rupert's authority and support) Lari is one of those characters who is NOT a badass OP FL lead. What has instead, is a quiet type of feminine strength. She doesn't have to be the smartest, or strongest, but she can still be a gentle person to acheive her goals. She may not be physically strong or intimidating, but she does have the support of Rupert; and he is more than happy to help support her in whatever she needs/wants. That's his role: to support her so she can be comfy and relax. Isn't that a nice idea on it's own? :) On the other hand, Lari IS a flawed character, with her own weaknesses:

extremely reckless

distrustful

due to being betrayed and gaslighted in TL1 and the first part of the story, she becomes hypervigilant to the point where she stops relying on ANYONE for help, becomes hyperindependent to the point of self-sabotage.

As Rupert says a few times throughout the series, Lari makes A LOT of stupid mistakes and bad decisions throughout the series, decisions any normal, rational person wouldn't do. That's the point. Unlike Rupert, who has Tori and Louis to discuss things with, Lari has no one. She's utterly alone. So if she DID have someone to rely on, that someone would tell her how stupid she was being, and she wouldn't have done the stupid thing. Her poor decisions is the result of being utterly alone, with no one to turn to.

Lari knows how bad her decisions were and agonizes over it afterwards, but Louis is the one who reassures her that in her situation, even if it wasn't the right call, to her, at that moment, it was the correct choice.

Rupert is the one who eventually realizes despite how she appeared, Lari is actually more lonely than anyone else. She had all these secrets about TL1 hidden inside, he was unable to ever fully earn her trust, and even if he wanted her to rely on him, the current [him] failed to do that. Before the separation, he was wishy washy - did he want to get closer to her? did he want to keep his distance? Eventually he realized that HE needed to change the way he treated her to earn her trust

It was nice that Lari already cared deeply for him; he didn't have to work TOO hard to earn her trust and have her rely on him when they reunited, but true to his word, he will always be there to support her, and if she allows it, he will be the one to protect and she can always rely on him. :)

After becoming a couple, RupeLali are hanging out often anyways, and they always have open communication. No judgement, and Rupert encourages Lari to speak her mind and any worries, and that is a tremendous relief for her, and their bond gets stronger from that :D

This is basically a story of Lari growing up and learning to trust and rely on others, and to let go of the toxic people who held her back from her own personal greatness!

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

Character analyses' are so fun to read because people have so many different thoughts about a single character and how that character has changed and will change in response to the environment and people around them.

Take Dazai Osamu for instance-there are so many different interpretations of his character and they figure all of that out from minute details in the novel/manga he's in. Like no, I wouldn't have figured out the connection between his ability to control his heartbeat and his humanity but thank you for taking the time out of your day to point that out.

Or someone from a completely different fandom, like say, a similar detective character who also goes around solving cases because they've inherited that trait from a mentor they deeply respect. MaoMao from Apothecary Diaries! There are numerous analysis' about not only her and how her past (being raised in a brothel) deeply affected her emotional regulation, but also posts about other people in the fandom and the symbolism behind every scene and visual metaphor used.

But in both fandoms, their respective members won't always agree with each other.

And it's just such a joy to see what people's thoughts are and their feelings about a character/characters/anything really that they're incredibly passionate about. Even if I don't always agree with them. It's just so nice to see for me. So this is a post for all who write analysis' on character's. You're doing gods work keep it up!!!

The hero or villain debate has always been fascinating to me because personally, I would rather love the hero. Not because of their personality or anything but because if it came down to it, and the hero would be forced to choose between me or the world, I would rather they choose the world.

Because that's the world-that is billions of people with lives separate from your own that will suffer because of that decision. Your teachers, your classmates, your animals, a grandma that finally beat cancer, a child who was finally born.

"A hero would sacrifice you to save the world-" I'm gonna stop you right there because that's all I need to hear.

While I do see the appeal in picking the villain, I think I'd rather be loved by someone kind enough to put others first before themselves, and if sacrificing me is the way to do it, I'd have lived and died happy.

Either that or I'm reading too much into a fantasy plot and giving my two cents on a topic no one really cares about.

Rawr

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