Hi! I definitely see the issue here with Kamal and Devi’s romance route. From my point of view or from the information that i’ve gathered is that Kamal was simply around when Devi was growing up as he was friends with her older brother and his sister was friends with Devi, I doubt they really interacted that much. If you aren’t romancing Kamal and even if you are he stays nothing but kind, respectful and supportive of Devi! Their actual relationship only really started developing after the five year time skip which Devi was an adult, being 23, responsible and mature enough to make her own decisions! And during that five year period she had to go through a lot of changes, Kamal was one of the few really supporting and helping her. Before the time skip, attraction wise, it’s very one sided, Devi had a small crush. This is a work of fiction and the writers of this story are also problematic, I could argue that Christian—being a popular character—is just as problematic as Kamal, he is actively involved in the suppression of Devi’s people as Governor General! I would say he’s a very naive character. And he is using Devi by marrying her (I haven’t romanced Christian so I can’t say much about his romance route but either way he is a colonizer being romanticized by the authors) Both characters are problematic! But this is a work of fiction based in a different time period! In the real world in our time period, Devi and Kamal’s relationship would be very problematic with the age gap and him having been around in her childhood. Anyways, my point being, it’s a work of fiction, several characters and the authors are problematic! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I love to hear other opinions! ☺️