even though i said yomi is the only one worthy of iana he's still on thin ice too
all three guys annoy me; yomi and sol don't believe iana (yomi reeks of infantilizing iana, and we already know about sol), and gwinoford is one of those ppl who don't check how they act when they're in a committed relationship w/ someone already
although gwin i can tolerate slightly more if i approach it from the viewpoint that he and konoha are in a stable, healthy relationship and trust each other enough not to get jealous
but i also don't trust gwin to NOT be developing affection for iana, especially after this chapter
i'm really just hoping for some delicious character development for like, EVERYONE lol
contrary to popular opinion, i like the relationship w/ sol the best, but that's because the spicy ANGST and DRAMA are delicious
BUT: a) it's a bad sign that iana is SCARED of sol and suspects his every action
b) sol hasn't even started to be a DECENT HUMAN BEING to iana because he always overlooks iana in favor of konoha, and even though he turns his attention to iana's condition after the fact, she's always second priority (whereas idk a decent person would place equal importance on every person in their party? lookin at you, dance chapter)
c) it doesn't help that there's no signs he's even recognized this biased behavior in himself, which results in us being especially critical of him because he's unapologetically biased towards konoha
d) it also sucks (for me) that right now yomi is the best candidate for iana's partner out of all the male characters. i specifically avoid saying "he's the only one who deserves iana" because frankly, no one deserves the love of another person, even fictional. he's the best candidate because he's been more of a decent human being to iana than sol and gwin by actually paying attention to her and worrying about her first? but that's only the MINIMUM; he hasn't at all listened to what she's been telling him--it passes through his own filters so when she says, "stop! i don't hate konoha!" he hears, "help! i'm being brainwashed by konoha!" maybe he didn't realize it, but his actions were basically saying, "i don't think iana is capable of judging her own condition; she's clearly being mistreated and needs me to save her", which is why i say he's infantilizing iana
and this was really long discourse on a shoujo series that's frankly, not supposed to be the pinnacle of shoujo lol