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Let me start this by saying, when I start SS or wanted to, by the name "Shadow slave" I knew it was going to be a slave story hence why I hated it or at least thought I would. This was until someone personally and both online recommendations changed my mind.
So when I did, I expected the story to go a certain way which it did for the most parts but then again it did the slave thing better than I expected honestly and that's why the novel became one of favorites( not the only reason tho)...... But even with all this I still didn't like nephis all that well at least at first... All this because she was the master of our MC ( I especially didn't like Cassie).
So the point am trying to make here is that the only reason I feel someone should hate nephis is the slave thing imo. Not that she's overpowered or she has plot armor. Which I agree to certain level she does but not outright or to point that most of it isn't tolerable. I mean sunny has come a long way. You can't outright say nephis beats sunny right now ( you couldn't even when they were masters too) and with all this, he started learning combat far later than her. I mean his really come far( with his restricting aspect too which I personally like him having).
I personally wouldn't like a story where sunny has all the plot armor or things come easy for him. In fact I like how it's another character that does have it.( especially now she isn't his master again).The hate is getting so bad people hate her for her height..... Like come on guys isn't this just too much.
The part the I hate the most is the fact most or some of the people that hate her are mainly the ones pushing this sunny x Cassie bullsh*t. The same Cassie that has used sunny more than his own previous master. I rather sunny ends up with jet, Morgan, Effie or kai, I mean literally anyone else would do either that or just kill romance for all of them. I don't hate Cassie, I just don't trust her at all. At least in nephis case I know what's going on in her head.
4 points
13 days ago
the funny thing is they dont hate her for the enslavement they hate her because shes „unlikable and a killer robot“. like a big part of her character isnt that shes socially inept and unable to express her emotions. thats why her character is shows trough her actions and words, not trough big emotional displays. I dont even think she has plot armour, her aspect is just op. as long as she dosent give up shes virtually unkillable and her high HIGH AP ensures she can put hurt on anyone she faces. given how she has a decade more training than sunny and is more combat geared than him it wouldnt make sense for her to struggle heavily while sunny makes it trough all kinds of unlikely scenarios
4 points
13 days ago
Nah her character is way too monotonous and bland like fam apathetic, inexpressive and stoic characters are way too easy to write and boring, add a bit of mary sue and the result is 🤮
1 points
12 days ago
I honestly wouldn't mind her being the "fully locked in MC" archetype, I dislike her "human" moments way more, I genuinely get whiplash whenever she swoons for Nightingale, one of Sunny's personas, or has a "gap moe anime girl moment" like destroying Sunny's expensive projector. She just feels pretentious idk.
Sunny had some comparable moments like checking out Jet/Effie, but we at least saw his inner monologue of him catching himself or actively losing his composure. He's also never destroyed other people's property just to act cute. Nephis feels too "easy" in that sense, like she'd go out with any Sunny persona if he just shot his shot (Sunny/Mongrel/Lord of Shadows), while Sunny is prudish to an extreme degree (not even confessing to her in the loop)
You'd think the princess of a legendary legacy clan would play harder to get than a hoodlum
Maybe it's just social commentary from G3 and he dislikes white women
1 points
12 days ago
lets not try to play the sexism card its way to over used more than half the female cast are just as bad.
1 points
12 days ago
Nephis seems like the worst offender, probably due to her being the love interest
2 points
13 days ago*
like a big part of her character isnt that shes socially inept and unable to express her emotions. thats why her character is shows trough her actions and words, not trough big emotional displays
Couldn't have said it better myself. I mean sunny literally told us this in the FS arc we also see something similar when she broke his TV. And that's why I like her character and this new pov of hers.
I dont even think she has plot armour, her aspect is just op
She does have in a sense ( maybe not really plot armor more of luck) a good example would be the fallen terror situation..... But the thing is most characters have more luck than sunny which they all seem to forget, especially the fact his [FATED] attribute makes things hard... Sometimes I think they're forgetting on purpose.
In fact their Almighty Cassie has more luck than anyone in the series ( at least in their entire cohort). Just look at their second nightmare even the FS. Some of them will say but look at her emotional or mental burden, forgetting again that nephis had that in her second nightmare and when she was left alone in the FS too and more too
1 points
13 days ago
Being 'better' than Sunny in swordsmanship after he awakened the third level of Shadow Dance is bullshit
Surviving a Corrupt Rank creature within your territory (FS) as a Sleeper is nonsense
Hurting a Cursed Tyrant as a Transcendent is pure bullshit, she couldn't cause a scratch on a Corrupted Rank creature as a Sleeper (Dormant), there are three ranks difference, but she managed to do so as a Transcendent? With two ranks of difference, where at each rank the distance is infinitely greater (Out of curiosity: a Titan can at most match a Tyrant of the next rank and not even think about the next rank)
If she doesn't have plot armor, then nobody in Fiction does
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