you did forget...
all those things that you mention appear in the second half AFTER she begins changing.
Cassia and Valentina don't mention her drinking until the later chapters, after their father dies.
Aelinia wants to be first, it's understandable, all women do. But she is never worried about MC's other girls until the later chapters when she begins acting up and she is shown with the bigger cup. and the cup size does matter, it's a direct representation of how much she drinks. Before that huge cup appears, Aelinia is only shown drinking one or two glasses during dinner at most.
and wrong again, Aelinia assessed Lydia correctly in the first chapters, she valued Lydia's skills, even though her own mother hated Lydia and Aristhenes' relationship and influence on Lydia... Lydia actually respected Aelinia for that, they were close. and suddently, their relationship explodes just because.
the only one Aelinia couldn't assess correctly is indeed Valentina, but it's the same for everyone, even the dev himself
Valentina's change is so extreme... even more so than Aelinia's and Lydia's.
She assessed Marius correctly. She was not the one that was sure that Marius was behind the assassination attempts. She only had doubts. MC was the one that pushed her to doubt her brother even more with the false accusation for the kidnapping. She told MC her brother was gay to explain his resistance to Estrid's offer, for one. She warned MC about Diana, and told him exactly how Dinah is. She told him how Aristhenes really is, how Cassiah really is, how Brennus really is, how her own father really is...
you forgot a lot dude. you might want to replay from the start
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does matter, a lot even. because it marks the beginning of the change for Valentina. before she arrives, all characters, even the MC, that have known Valentina for years, and seen her every single day, have described her as immature and nothing else.
and from the moment Juliana arrives, suddenly, Valentina's qualities came to the attention of the
PLAYER. even Helena adds an anecdote, out of nowhere, as well as the goddess and cronut, to reinforce the change, and justify all that Valentina is now capable of, to the
PLAYER. and that's the main issue right there. the chapter Juliana arrives resets everything that was told in the story for us, not the MC.
where did i say that she was forced to travel ?? I said she was sent away, and that was what she wanted. WIN WIN. how did you understand that she was forced from that ? you said that she had the courage to travel, I said that was not courage. she only wanted to go where MC was. didn't care about travelling or see the kingdom at all. there was no courage anywhere.
wrong again. Marius didn't see MC as a threat to his reign at all... if anything, Aristhenes would be a much bigger threat. Marius was hostile for no reason other than being jealous that MC spent all his time on his sisters and didn't even spare a second to come and greet the heir. He was also jealous of MC's popularity. Marius doesn't care about ruling, and he took being the heir as granted no matter what happened or who came along, he can't feel threatened about that at all.
Marius was still hostile to MC even after Cassiah was saved. And the blackmail came after that... there is no explanation for his change in attitude towards MC, there should have been a scene that shows us why. if it's Helena and his sisters that scold him and demand that he becomes nice to MC, then there should be a scene for that. MC didn't "save" Marius from Estrid until his father died, so it's not that at all.
here is what you said, because you seem to want to distort the truth :
clearly you imply that he gets nice because of the secret and mc protecting him, and he is forced to.
but he is not forced to be nice to MC, he was nice long before any of that happens too.
Marius doesn't "notice MC is the only protection he has right now", MC has to tell him to his face when MC takes over as a ruler. Before that, Marius had no idea. He had a false sense of security and took it for granted because MC did his job well.
So i'll double down saying the change is very sudden. it begins during the first training, and is confirmed during the party. it's so sudden that it's creepy.
I read every single word you write, that's the minimum you should do when people take the time to write and reply. but it seems you are projecting your own issue here.
I don't dismiss your opinion, I dismiss your false statements when there are facts that contradicts them. if they were just your opinions, I would just say that I disagree with them. You make sound arguments, but they are not based on correct facts. it seems you base everything from a distant memory of the game events and your interpretation of missing parts and present them as factual.