Ah this has the potential to be a good read but the whole “I will ignore each and every sign that X character is devoted to me” thing is a red flag, the Ultimate Turn Off so I hope I’m just being paranoid and it won’t end up being a big part of the main plot T..T someone please tell me just who is it that decided that this particular type of obstacle will magically make every relationship look more romantic/tragic, because it really doesn’t, no seriously there’s nothing remotely touching or fascinating about it T..T
the male lead is a legit psychopath but well he kinda is the first abnormal homonculus to ever have thoughts and feelings of his own and without anyone guiding him through them... in a way he was bound to never grow out of this kind of childlike possessiveness to the things he likes? (of course the fl isn’t a thing lol but he obviously treats her that way. I know this is somehow the least problematic thing but oh god I’d be so pissed if someone brought me back to life).
Hope this time around he’s not left alone and that someone kicks him until he grows one healthy braincell... because despite being socially inept and way out of touch with reality he’s got talents and skills that the fl seems to be lacking (leadership, determination, spirit of sacrifice... he just used them for the totally wrong reasons. okay so to keep it short he seems more interesting than the fl from the past). She seems to have learned from the first revolt that change in the empire is actually possible, and even if she decided to go for the pacifist route hopefully we get served some nice, sweet, beautifully orchestrated revenge,,,, just imagine, she takes the reigns of the revolt all on her own, throws everyone out of the empire, leads a long fulfilling career as empress, gives freedom to both homonculus and alchemists and finds a nice sane romantic interest (the teacher/sage would be the best sane candidate so far but that’s probably only because he had like two lines cough cough), no need for the dense-until-plot-do-us-apart thing pretty please