Ok so I've been seeing complaints about Book 7's ending by a few minority not only here, but from other platforms as well. While everyone is of course allowed to dislike something, let's tackle a few points:
Malleus deserved a harsher punishment
Everyone witnessed Diasomnia's moment. Everybody knew he accidentally killed Lilia. Everyone knows how much Lilia means to Malleus. So everyone knows that there's no punishment harsher than the eternal scar of accidentally killing your own father.
And that's not enough, because he lost majority of his power. THIS is his prolonged punishment. We should remember that his entire life revolved around being the strongest, so all of his foundation hinged on that. If you're an artist, it's like losing your dominant hand and having to relearn how to draw with your other. Except in his case it's like losing both his hands so he needs to learn how to draw with his feet.
While it's true that he's far happier now than he was when he was strong, that doesn't mean he won't go through so much suffering as a consequence. For 200 years. 200 years of being weak means he's not fit to be king; no Dark Fae will follow a man akin to a common Fae. His nobles will not respect him. He's now a very easy target, since he's not indestructible anymore.
This basically means he's currently a pretty decoration to Briar Valley. An unemployed trust fund kid. Random people will likely mock him or treat him like an amusing animal in a zoo.
Which means he will have to build his reputation from the ground up, against all odds, as a disgraced prince.
Malleus tried to kill x and x
No he did not. He genuinely thought he found a breakthrough and was doing the world a service by making immortality accessible to everyone. Remember that he used to be the strongest; he thought nobody was just capable of this feat until he did.
He was quite literally insane at that moment. When he did accidentally kill Lilia, he snapped to his senses and immediately reacted like a small child. He doesn't want to believe it, because he would never do something like that. He simply doesn't want to kill anyone-- what he wanted was the opposite: that nobody needs to die anymore.
Everybody left him off the hook so easily
We get a lot of scenes explaining this. Sure maybe for you their reasons are bullshit, but the fact is that this is a Disney story. He would never be executed. But the following are from different accounts from different characters.
There were actually very few injured, because even though he was insane in dragon form, a part of his morality was there and he unconsciously avoided hurting people as much as possible. There are more injuries that happen in Spelldrive than who Malleus injured, according to Epel.
For the rest of the student body, they were simply having the best dreams of their lives. Many compared to it an amusement park and want to experience it again.
The other overblotters tried to protest, but were reminded that they too almost killed people. Some were genuinely out to kill people while Malleus wasn't.
Most people on Sage Island are actually good people, unlike NRC students. They embody the values of Fantasia Mickey, where the apprentice was given a second chance instead of being exiled because he showed actual remorse.
He is entitled and thinks he's always right
Yes he's entitled. But that's part of his character. He thought he was right, insisted he was right, but when he was defeated and told otherwise, he accepted it wholeheartedly. He was the only overblotter who actually apologized in public, recognized he did wrong, thanked everyone for helping him, and swore he will become a better man.
He literally can't take back anything that's happened. Kicking him further will not achieve anything.
Why didn't he talk it out with Yuu instead of immediately jumping to overblot
He doesn't even understand that he's feeling something negative. Nobody taught him to recognize his own feelings. He was raised to be strong and independent, so his first instinct was to deal with the problem himself.
He can't even talk it out with Lilia and Silver; there was no way he could talk it out to a friend he just met that year.
His power literally hurts his surroundings when he tries to feel things. He's likely afraid of accidentally striking someone with lightning or drowning them in storms if he admits that he's feeling down.
He didn't know too much negative feelings could lead to an overblot. He was already out of his mind before he knew it.
There could be more but these are off the top of my head.
Silver can technically still fall asleep š¤š¤
Because the magical sword takes too much magic and that why they each get one.
And being back in reality?? And being drained of magic? Along with his sleep spells??
I can see that putting him to sleep.
And then maybe, malleus in his weakened state, helpless and without magic to help him.
Cries and desperately wishes for him to awaken, saying he was sorry and he never meant to hurt him.
Not his little silver, not the person he did all this for.
And thatās what breaks the spell and wakes him up.
Meleanor and KOD had to fight each other, war led to their deaths
But it is their children that saves each other, who love each other.
They are not their parents.
They are the future of peace and love
(then afterwards they go to Lilia together and wake himā¦
or what if Lilia was awake this entire time?? And he was watching? He entrusted the boys with each other, knew they can take care of each other. He told them to take care of malleus and vice versa. And this?? This was the proof and he watches to have that validation.
His boys will be fine.)
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Diasomnia is absent from the replies because they're with Lilia trying to figure out what went wrong
Lol, isn't this consequences of your actions, Grim ź(ĖįĖ*)ā”
Wait wait wait Iām going to be sick
This line from Meleanor gets made fun of a lot, because really- regular Malleus is pretty much a carbon copy of her (photo above from @/rayroseu)
But Iāve never been able to let go of General Liliaās line- the SECOND he saw Overblot! Malleus, he briefly saw RAVERNE. And Malleus looks different- you can no longer see his longer strands of hair, and his hair has become almost pitch black. His appearance looks farther and farther away from his mother, to the point that LILIA, who grew up with and loved both Raverne and Meleanor- saw RAVERNE in himā¦but the horns were Meleanorās.
But nowā¦? Papa Shroud is suggesting that the horns are a vital organ connecting to Malleusā vast magical power. And now Silver and Sebek are preparing themselves to damage, or maybe even destroy Malleusā horns, in hopes of defeating him
What ifā¦What if Meleanorās wish is coming true? Malleus, over time, IS indeed āgrowingā to be a man as ābeautiful as Raverne.ā His hair appears short, his hair is black, and nowā¦his horns might be destroyed. A look that imitates Diaval, who may be the inspiration for Raverne.
ā¦Meleanorās wish is accidentally coming true? š Malleus will look like his father more than ever beforeā¦when he is Overblotted, when he is slowly dying, and now faces the threat of his horns being destroyed and magic weakened. But he will be a man of great beauty, just like Raverne
Mrrryaaaaw~
*I said in angelic cutiepie way*
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That's why you can't have nice things. I am taking Grim with me. No more kitty for him
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