While I would agree that HC3 does have some level of tragedy to it because Leto is largely presented as a competent, hard working, intelligent, and well rounded young man whose only major flaw is how incredibly uncomfortable he is with anything of a sexual nature, I still can't fathom the idea that HC1 and 2 are in any way tragic. In HC1 Casio practically cucks himself providing the villains plenty of opportunity to enact their evil schemes and even unknowingly assists the obviously evil demon in raping Eleonora into submission on multiple occasions. In HC2 Noah is so milquetoast that no one has faith in him before he's even done anything to justify their lack of faith in him. His mother and foster sister are so dumb that they're fucking around behind his back with barely any pressure at all, they quite literally ignore him while he's having a mental and emotional breakdown for days at a time so they can have nonstop sex in the same house he's falling apart in, they don't even the decency to fuck at the villain's house. I view HC1&2 more as comedies than I do tragedies.
I’d say I partly agree with you about
HC2 — yeah, the female leads have downright pathetic behavior and ridiculous excuses for ending up in the situations
they themselves created. In the end, there’s no real justification for their actions. It would’ve made sense if they had said something like,
“oh, the semen they ingested from the antagonists,” or
“the fluids they were exposed to messed with their judgment,” especially since Zergan’s potions could’ve easily affected any bodily fluid they secreted — that would’ve actually justified things. But nope. Instead, we just get Celis suddenly asking Noa to let her help him with whatever he’s planning to stop Zeno. Honestly pathetic, because we all know that if Edwyr had been with her at that moment, she wouldn’t have even bothered to go after Noa.
Now, I completely disagree with you about
HC1. If you remember correctly, Cassio was under a spell from the very moment the demons appeared — one that messed with his perception of everything happening around him. So yeah, at least we got a
credible justification for the events, not so much for the female characters’ behavior, but definitely for Cassio’s inability to act during what went down.
As for Noa, in my opinion, it was his father’s overprotection that made him useless. If Envar had trained Noa even half as harshly as Zeno trained Edwyr — not to the same extreme, but still — things would’ve been very different. Envar is supposed to be a
much better warrior than Zeno, so it’s ridiculous that he never gave his son proper training just because they were living in “peaceful times.”
And about
HC3, I also disagree. It’s not that Leto is uncomfortable or bothered by doing something intimate or sexual — the real issue, as I mentioned in a previous post, is that Noa grew up in an environment that drilled into him a sense of “respect” toward others, especially toward women. That mindset was heavily pushed by the hypocrite Haylen and reinforced by everyone around him.