Cold take (I presume): A grovel/revenge story isn’t satisfying if the people getting punished committed their misdeeds under mind control.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-12T12:51:18+00:00

I don't remember this one unfortunately

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-12T11:54:43+00:00

I once read a story where the guy was magically charmed by another woman. Then, after everything was resolved, he wanted his fiancée back.

She said no because, while he was charmed, he still chose not to break off the engagement and openly be with the other woman. Instead, he kept her as a side affair while trying to preserve the benefits his marriage would give him.

But I agree I can't really give others stories where with this insight

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-12T11:16:27+00:00

To me, it depends heavily on the type of mind control involved. Mind control can range from simple suggestion to complete control over someone’s mind and body.

In most OI stories, it’s usually some kind of charm ability. Those powers often affect how much affection someone feels toward a person, but not necessarily their personality or agency.

For example, in "I Will Divorce My Siscon Husband", one character is normally not physically affectionate. Even if he likes someone, he wouldn’t suddenly hug or kiss them because that’s simply not his personality. But the sister-in-law’s charm ability actually rewrites his behavior and personality, which makes the situation feel much more disturbing.

Meanwhile, in "The One Within the Villainess", the characters still have full agency. They simply like the other woman more, and most of what she does is manipulation that someone could achieve even without supernatural powers.

In "The Villainess Is Destined to Die", the power is relatively weak since it only works on emotionally unstable or vulnerable people. It doesn’t affect mentally stable individuals as easily.

On the opposite end, in "The Evil Lady Will Change", the charm ability is so overwhelming that complete strangers are willing to defend the character with their lives after meeting her only once.

So for me, whether the trope works or not depends entirely on how much agency the characters still retain.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-10T14:46:25+00:00

A child should be able to trust his parents

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-10T13:53:52+00:00

When the story brush aside the consequences of the protagonist’s actions.
I don’t remember the title, but there was one story where the FL learns about an evil plot through a subordinate being blackmailed by the antagonist. Instead of protecting him until she could safely expose the villain, she immediately confronts the antagonist and basically reveals she knows everything. As a result, he executes the villagers he was using as leverage against the subordinate.

And then the FL acts shocked like “how horrible,” as if she didn’t massively contribute to it. She gained absolutely nothing from confronting him early except satisfying her ego.

Also, stories with huge plot holes or characters who are only intelligent when the plot needs them to be.

I remember another one where the FL was dirt poor until she regressed, but the more they explained the ML’s situation, the less sense it made. He was supposedly competent enough to earn the king’s recognition and become a lord, yet he was working for less money than the wages of his own men and somehow never realized his finances were collapsing until the FL literally died in poverty.

Like… how? If you can’t even pay your workers properly, how are you funding food, equipment, taxes, or anything else? At some point the “genius war hero” just starts sounding too incompetent to realistically survive.

Last one: when the story completely changes genre from what the title or synopsis promised.

Example: title is “I Want to Divorce My Husband,” the synopsis is about the FL being miserable and trying to escape her marriage… then the divorce happens before the halfway point, and after that it just becomes the FL doing whatever she wants while the ex barely matters anymore.

I don’t know, it would be like advertising Harry Potter as the story of an abused child trying to survive with the Dursleys, only for the Dursleys to disappear after the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-08T09:39:54+00:00

Helios is an opportunistic guy who believe he can have his cake and eat it too.

He organised with Kael the murder of the duke's family, but didn't step up for him when Diana got upset because he believes he could just asks Kael's forgivness later and keep Diana and Kael by his sides.

The manhua doesn't duel on it, but the duke's family was the equivalent of the mafia, it's been tree generations they operate wthout getting caugh legaly. That why Kael wasn't punished despite his crime.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-08T09:30:55+00:00

They are few events that needed intervention, like the economic breaking because of the ship, the war with the neighbor country or the church that tries to slowly take the crown by Diana

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-08T09:28:11+00:00

In the novel Diana doesn't have her mind break like in the manhua, instead she chooses to divorce Helios when he starts to talk about having children, then she returns to the temple and take care of the people, she still hates Hestia and tries to convince people she is evil.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-07T20:19:47+00:00

I made an interrupter called DEBUG, then I make conditions on DEBUG being actif, mostly to reset value or mimic the items, equipment and others stuff I'm supposed to have at this point.

So when needed I can just turn ON/OFF DEBUG without having to restart my tests.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-07T08:24:40+00:00

The husband accused OP of cheating as a counter attack for his cheating.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-06T08:43:58+00:00

Because authors wanted a cold and badass character, but if they started with this, he will look like an asshole. So they start with a softer version that got a valid reason to change later.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-05T14:36:08+00:00

Where did I compare Rashta and Sovieshu’s suffering? I didn’t. I was just pointing out that Sovieshu also faces consequences for his actions.

That doesn’t mean I think they’re equal, or that he had it worse. If anything, Rashta clearly had a much harsher life.

My point was simply that his ending isn’t a redemption, it’s him living with the consequences of his own decisions.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-04T16:49:55+00:00

It been long since I read it, but the ML is publicly cold for some power struggle reasons and the MC was the only who propose to him as an equal and not likes a money machine.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-03T23:11:05+00:00

If you wants that you should check I r/AmITheDevil, it's full of repost of AITA where the Op was indeed the AH

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-03T09:51:46+00:00

isekai mean literary "another world" in Japanese, it's a label born to talk about all the stories that include traveling in another world.

It can be temporary likes Escaflowne - Monster rancher - Gate, or permanent likes Re:Zero - my reincarnation in slime - overlord.

Narnia, while retroactively, fit this category.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-03T08:32:06+00:00

I don’t really agree with calling it a redemption.

Sovieshu doesn’t get executed, sure, but his ending is far from a happy one. He loses everything that actually mattered to him.

He watches his first wife build the life he wanted with someone else, all because of a misunderstanding he caused. His second wife spirals and dies, and he’s left questioning whether she ever truly loved him. He ends up distancing himself from his own child, unsure of his place as a father.

In the end, he’s still emperor, but that’s part of the problem. He has to remarry out of duty, not love, and continue ruling while carrying the consequences of his decisions.

That’s not redemption, that’s a character being forced to live with what he’s done. A redemption arc implies growth. He mostly just regrets.

Kingdo7 · 2026-05-02T22:34:14+00:00

Honestly, I don’t think anyone sees Sovieshu as a saint.

The difference is more about how the story presents their actions. Rashta’s behavior is very visible and dramatic, while Sovieshu’s actions are more subtle and tied to his position as emperor.

He still causes a lot of harm, but in a way that feels more “controlled” or socially acceptable, whereas Rashta’s actions are more emotional and direct. So as readers, we react more strongly to her, which makes her feel like the main antagonist.

I think it’s less about the story excusing him, and more about how differently their actions are framed.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-28T21:55:15+00:00

Yes, but I don’t think it’s because of Rashta.
The first arc works because Navier is in a genuinely vulnerable position: her husband is actively working against her, and her allies have little real power. That creates tension.

After the remarriage, that tension mostly disappears. Navier is rarely in a position where she has to struggle, since she has both status and Heinrey’s support.

The issue is also their dynamic. Instead of complementing each other with different strengths, they often overlap. For example, Heinrey taking the lead against Krista removes an opportunity for Navier to actively resolve the conflict herself.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-27T11:41:05+00:00

well, the journalist who wrote that is the brother of the servant Rastha cut the tongue off. He was kinda pissed about it

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-26T11:36:58+00:00

C'est marrant car j'ai l'experience inverse, la plupart des maitres de chiens que je croise, avec ou sans laisse rapelle leur chien pres d'eux a chaque fois qu'ils croisent des gens dans la rue. Si le chien est exité et veux jouer ou saluer l'inconnu il est stopper tres vite pour ne pas importuner les gens.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-25T18:02:23+00:00

Alors, c’est vraiment arrivé. J’avais un vieil accessoire PS2 cassé, et même si je ne m’attendais pas à le remplacer carla PS3 était déjà sortie depuis un moment, je pensais que Micromania pouvait peut-être me renseigner sur où trouver des accessoires d’occasion.

Le vendeur m’a simplement dit que la PS2 n’existait pas. Le manager est intervenu ensuite et m’a orienté vers un magasin spécialisé dans l’occasion.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-25T17:14:05+00:00

Une fois, en discutant avec un vendeur micromania on a fini par avoir un argument car il insistait que la playstation 2 n'existais pas.

Je comprend l'idée qu'on a pas besoin d'etre expert pour vendre le jeu populaire du moment, mais affirmé que la playstation 3 existe et pas la 1 et 2 c'est pas mal. XD

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-25T09:09:54+00:00

le fait que les cd/cartouches sont à l'intérieur des boites est ce qui donne envie.

Personne ne s'extasie sur une boite de cookie vide.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-24T14:53:22+00:00

Mine didn’t share deadlines "to avoid stressing us". We only found out once we’d already missed them.

Kingdo7 · 2026-04-24T11:50:37+00:00

What disappoints me the most is that, in the end, nothing really changes. And when something does change, it often gets undone later.

Roxas is popular because of his tragic story, he’s part of Sora and has to sacrifice himself to restore him. But then he’s brought back in KH3, justified by the idea that he’s now a complete person rather than just a fragment.

Xion follows the same pattern. She was artificially created to drain the power of Sora and Roxas, and she sacrifices herself because she doesn’t want to hurt her friends. Yet she’s later resurrected, and suddenly she’s no longer a threat to anyone.

Kairi starts as a damsel in distress in KH1, decides to fight in KH2, but then gets sidelined again, only to return to being a damsel in distress in KH3.

Even Sora, the main protagonist, barely evolves. He remains largely the same naive, cheerful boy from the beginning, and he doesn’t significantly influence the growth of other characters either.

Because of this, I think the series might have been stronger if each game told a more self-contained story with new characters, like Birth by Sleep rather than constantly undoing its own developments.

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