yforever125's manga / #Characters Growth(2)

Even though she has been training to become the crown princess her entire life, her spoilt, less capable (useless), younger sister takes her fiance in a tantrum of "love at first sight". Losing her sense of self-purpose/care, she offers to be the dragon's bride, and throws herself in the volcano in which he resides, surrendering herself to her demise. In actuality, the dragon is real, accepts her proposal, which somehow leads to him conquering a neighbouring kingdom. Her dragon fiance gives her full reigns to rebuild and rule the nation's affairs.

The Ernst family's precious daughter passed away, as a result Mama Ernst is slowly going crazy... that is, until she met Hari, a homeless girl who just lost her mother and looks identical to the late Ernst daughter. They adopt her and care for her like they would their own, except, the three brothers who despise the stranger who took their parents' affection. She lived through the nightmare they put her through and is finally marrying into a different family. Then she wakes up and finds herself in her younger body... reliving the life she almost escaped from. This story needs more tragedy if it was going to be about a 'blood-and-tear-inducing life' caused by her adoptive brothers. They should've made the brothers as terrible as she said they were. Everything we've SEEN so far was petty and childish bullying. They haven't properly established what the stakes are; they haven't shown how terrible her mistreatment was, they've only told us "oh, and the brothers are despicable" and "they're young and childish now, but soon they'd do even worse". They should've showed us that in her past memory, when she was being docile/obedient/considerate, she was still bullied relentlessly, so now in the present, she's going to act without consideration. But the worst abuse she got wasn't even from the her 'terrible' brothers, it was from her aunt whose only purpose is to be a bad person so that the brothers can punish the aunt and show Hari that they care about her. To truly set the stakes, they should've given us a detailed flashback of her trauma surrounding them like if she were experiencing ptsd. From what they've SHOWN, it just seemed like they only did some petty bullying, like taking her toys, taking candy, forcing her to wild play with them, tripping her, calling names, purposefully bumping into her etc. Any time I felt scared for her was when I imagined worse scenarios, because it never felt like she was in any real danger BECAUSE of her brothers. Eugene is my favorite brother.