Its annoying that Clara is the main human LI. She is similar in age as the MC but she acts like a 10 year old. Gab sacrificed himself because she is super naive about Claire and because she was acting like a child when Claire was sacrificing herself. I hope she grows up in the next couple of chapters.
Hmm disagree,
firstly its not even sure that Clara is fully human. You may change your view about her after the half chapter, Clara's whole thing is HOW deep, unchanging and unconditional her love for the mc is. How was she acting like a child? Imo she seemed very calm and logical considering she got a) beaten to a pulp close to death and b) got blackmailed and fooled, c) confronted with the death of her mom
The last thing she did was reflecting how she fucked up and thinking about a solution (sending eda to MC), imo thats mature.
Gabriel's sacrifice was not "just" for Clara, it was for Claire too, he apparently loves (like family) or at least values her highly for taking care of the MC. Gabriel sees Claires behavior as reckless, cruel and wrong but he would still sacrifice himself for her, thats gab.
And while i personally hate Claire and her dictator-like actions and stupid plans, i still always take the reconciliation-path with her (telling her to fuck off at the first occasion at home but going back to her in the office and telling her that shes still family). Its like a nice middle path as the MC tells Claire he will stop her and the high order if he considers something immoral but willl always be there for her still.
Claire's reaction is rather cool too, saying that she would like to adjust her ways to be more in line with the mc's vision and that everything shes doing is supposed to keep Clara and herself safe (she royally fucked that up tho lol) and how she considered his words and came to the conclusion that its not worth it if it means losing the MC over it as thats one of her reasons to do all of this shit in the first place.
From our POV its easy to dislike Claire, but looking at it from the MC's perspective Claire was the only woman who ever gave him genuine maternal love and care while he apparently had to kill his bio dad and his bio mom hated him. The only people who seemed to ever have cared about the MC were Gabriel and Claire and nobody else (only speaking about adults).
And the only reason Claire went back to work/lead the high order in the first place was because Clara and MC were in trouble (with Matt). We dont know if Claire would have acted the same if the picture would have only shown MC (and not clara) but i tend to think so. Claire is evil but her love for Clara/MC is genuine and unconditional. She would always sacrifice herself without hesistation for them.
So yeah, while its easy to judge her wrongdoings and murders and shes easy to hate, Claire is such an awesome character imo, its really rare that AVN's construct such a conflicting close relationship with one of the baddies of the story.
But still, my MC will never put her down and even defend her if shes in trouble even if i personally think she should die lol
Theres a nice conversation with Emma about Claire who similary sees Claire's wrongdoings but is more involved in the WHY Claire is acting like she is acting and has some understanding towards Claire even tho she obviously disagres with lots.
She has even more understanding for the MC not abandoning Claire and says something like "You will love your partner for 10 years, your wife for 20 years, but you will love your mother forever" and that kinda fits my headcannon for the MC as someone who got abandoned by everyone else but Claire and Gabriel.
Claire still needs to be stopped but thats not really the MC's resonsibility
I dunno, the whole situation and character is so rare and conflicting, i love it.
