Now That All Of The Queen Of Thieves Characters Are Out And The Second Season Is Around The Corner, I

Now that all of the Queen of Thieves characters are out and the second season is around the corner, I want to write a little review

Nikolai: I would never have thought that he would be one of my favorite characters from the series. The chemistry, the way he acts and talks, his backstory, the cat, everything captured me and made me want more. Can't wait for his second season!

Vivienne: I really wanted to like her, because appearance wise she is totally my type. But I just couldn't get into her. I didn't feel the chemistry and how she treats the MC annoyes me. But her story is really interesting, especially that cliffhanger, and I'm curious how it will go on.

Remy: When I first saw him, I thought: This will be my favorite character. And I was right! Remys story is a masterpiece, his dialogue made me smile, giggle and scream and his plot is very well written. I hope they will continue this in the second season, because I totally fall for him.

Zoe: I really like her, because her story is so different from the rest. There is no instant attraction, instead we slowly see her opening up to us. Also, the hacker plot is cool and different from all the stealing in the other routes.

Jett: This one is complicated. I like his character and I think his story has a lot of potential, but his first season bored me. Not because of all the hot make-out sessions (they were really awesome) but because the plot seems to be stuck. At least the ending was a bit more interesting, let's see where this goes.

Leon: His first season was so soft, I really loved it. But also hella angsty. This will probably not get better any time soon, but I'm here for it. @ja-lin pointed out, that he reminds her of Renzei and Alain, and they both belong to my favorites.

Conclusion: I really love Queen of Thieves. All the characters have a lot of potential, the art is most of the time really cool, there are a lot of nice side characters and I can't wait for the next season

MC trying out Lorelei’s homemade pizza.  I still wonder how good that pizza is? 

@lovestruckvoltage 

I KNEW IT! YEEEEEEEEEEEEES SHE’S COMING TO ITALY!!!! SO CLOSE TOO! VENICE!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Wait for me Vivienne, i’m gonna take the train and find you!!

Helena is the new Avatar and I really don’t get why people are so mad about it

Like, honestly. Helena chose to not kill her abuser. She chose that. As Aang chose to not kill Ozai so his soul would remain pure, Helena chose to not kill the Witch Queen because she didn’t want to kill anyone anymore and she knew that death was not a punishment to Witch Queen. Honestly, what’s the point of killing her if she’s ready for death, welcoming it ?

Witch Queen is an abuser and a Nazi-level monster, I think everyone can agree on that. How and why she turned out like this, we don’t know (which is sad) and not knowing makes it easier to see her as nothing but that : a monster. Therefore, I understand that there was no uproar when she died in the other routes : she wasn’t as strongly connected to the LI and her link to MC was barely developped in the other routes. In the end, she was just the physical manifestation of evil that the heroes needed to defeat in order to achieve peace. But for Helena ? It’s an entirely different story.

Helena wasn’t a hero at the beginning of her route. She was a weapon, a sorceress, a wretched creature, every hurtful description you can think of Helena heard it in her childhood or later and came to believe it. And who made her that way ? The Witch Queen. The Witch Queen who tortured, broke and shaped her back into a form she could use to do her biding. The Witch Queen who made Helena believe her abuse was love. The Witch Queen who tried to reclaim Helena after she left with MC, to bring her back into her clutches to start this cycle of abuse all over again. The Witch Queen who did all this because she can’t stand not being in power. The Witch Queen who, at every chance she got, tried to convince Helena that she was nothing but a weapon and could do nothing but kill. Hell, Helena’s natural magic is about draining things and people around her, THAT’S the reason she believed she was a monster for so long !

So what do you think Helena would have felt if she killed the Witch Queen ? Happiness ? Relief ? At proving her abuser right one last time ?! Seriously ?!

As I already said, Witch Queen made it a point to always remind Helena of the blood she has on her hands, to make her feel awful about her past crimes and the people she was killing in the present. She tried to make Helena believe she was still a monster, even though she had left Witch Queen’s side. And you wanted Helena to do what ? Give the Witch Queen one last opportunity to rub it in Helena’s face that, up until the end, she did nothing but kill ? That she doesn’t know how to do anything else ? Do you even understand the entire point of this route ?!

Of course Helena wouldn’t kill Witch Queen, because if she did, it would break her. She would have regretted it for the rest of her life. She would have never had a chance to prove, to her and to others, that she can win without killing. And, as I said in the beginning of this post, dying wouldn’t even have a been a punishment for Witch Queen. She was ready to die, as she stated in the episodes themselves : “You will all die here with me. Even if Helena survives, she will live knowing that she could have saved you but instead chose a pointless fight.” It was her goal all along, to make Helena feel awful with herself for the rest of her life. Which is why the end that the author chose is the best, in my opinion. Because :

- Helena gets to live free of her abuser, to enjoy her life knowing that the Witch Queen will never come back AND that she didn’t have to kill her. Helena gets to live knowing that she is more than a killer, that she doesn’t need to kill to win a fight, that she is better than what the Witch Queen made her out to be. And that is priceless.

- Witch Queen didn’t die the way she wanted to. She still chose to die, but she didn’t have the option of making Helena feel awful about it or herself. She died to escape what she considered Hell on Earth, she chose the lesser of two evils, but she did NOT reach any of her goals. Not only that, but we got to see the Witch Queen as a human, for the first time ever maybe. Stripped of her powers, throwing her own dignity to the wind, she cried and wailed and lost control over everything. She was human, not a goddess ; she was a mess, not fighting ‘till the bitter end ; she was pathetic, not still cloaked with her dignity. The powerful abuser, always in control, stronger than anyone, was no more. And we never got to see her like that before. We saw her human side and she got to die, but not according to her plans. It wasn’t a victory for her : she ran away.

This was AMAZING to read through. Honestly, big thumbs up to the author for this last fight because it was incredibly satisfying to see the Witch Queen fall down and Helena rise above her and what Witch Queen made her out to be. And to all the people who are whinning because “Bou-hou, Witch Queen had the last word, she stripped Helena from her agency !” or “Bou-hou, why didn’t Helena kill her, she had a right to !” first : fuck you, and second : not only did Helena’s decision make a lot of sense, Witch Queen’s DIDN’T strip Helena of her agency : Helena had decided she wouldn’t kill Witch Queen and she didn’t. In the end, the only one Witch Queen’s decision impacted was herself, as the world is going to forget her anyway, she just won’t be here to witness it.

Taiwan Becomes First Country In Asia to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

In a vote on Friday, May 17, Taiwan parliament legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the first country in Asia to do so.

This is only a week before the Parliament was to hit the deadline of May 24 set in 2017 after the constitutional court ruled that same-sex couple had the right to legally marry. 

Following years of campaigning by LGBT+ groups for equal marriage rights, hundreds swarmed the parliament building on Friday as the debate was held. Three bills were debated but last-minute attempts by conservatives to pass a watered-down “civil union” laws with not adoption rights were rejected.

In the end, the most progressive one was chosen which allowed couples to form “exclusive permanent unions” and apply for “marriage registrations.” However, this bill was not perfect, as it provides only limited adoption rights and draws some distinctions between heterosexual marriage, such as the inability to marry a foreigner if same-sex marriage is not legal in their country. Yet this is still be hailed by LGBTQ+ advocate as a momentous victory.

This landmark ruling will be implemented on May 24th and is bound to spread hope in Asia’s growing LGBT+ movements.

I created a YouTube playlist of the songs Emeril’s writer listened to while writing the route. The playlist was posted on the writer’s official Twitter.

A large bulk of the songs in the playlist are Disney. I wonder which Disney movie Emeril likes the best? Beauty and the Beast? The Little Mermaid? Tangled? xD