Off the bat she considers running away when she wakes up at the wedding, and prepares for an escape asap. When she can not leave immediately, she buys artifacts to try and protect herself and makes strategic decisions about how to survive Kid. Even when she is so scared she cannot move, she tries to deceive Kid and break out of essentially a trance. Kid notices her intellect and lack of surprise at him, which is why he lets her live. It is so refreshing to see a FL live by her own merits and not due to magic or her appearance/innocence. Her actions suggest she tries every action until she is forced into a corner, and even then she does what it takes to survive.

I find him boring and off-putting. It explicitly states that he is not good-enough of a person to kill himself to protect the world from Kid. Later it tries to elaborate on this, but it is s*upid. Also, he does not warn the FL at all because he is too awkward? I guess? Kid, his evil counterpart, threatens the FL with a knife and has killed a bunch of innocents? Huh? Weird to add, and I really hope he isn't going to be redeemed but I fear he might be. It would have been 100x cooler if he killed bad people exclusively.

dressed as a man and also admires the FL. I appreciate the similarities between the two, and how both simply want to live.

Basically, it's not to just eradicate evil and leave only good. "Evil" is sometimes needed to balance out good and live a happy life. And people have elements of both inside them. Seniel obviously reflects this in his changing actions and how he learns to accept himself.

Props for the twist that Ronan was actually himself, not Ezette. I was honestly surprised, but looking back, it was foreshadowed well.

His identity as Joel came out of nowhere. There was no reason to suspect him, and imo the hints about Joel such as the rose scent were only red herrings. I like it in theory, but the way it was written didn't make sense to me.

It's possible I misunderstood the raws, but as I understand it, it's s*upid and dissatisfying. I don't understand why the story got messed up before Vivi even entered it. It attempts to be meta with Vivi meeting "god" and talking about the writer and readers' expectations, but it just feels like nonsense thrown in to retroactively justify twists like Shaanxi being evil.

And then Vivi literally becomes a Christ figure who died for 3 days and then get resurrected, complete with a heavenly light shining on her. Seniel already saw her as a god, was this really necessary? They turn her into a Mary Sue at the end. It would've been easy to just make her unconscious/near-death without the Christ tropes.

On the plus side, I prefer that Seniel created Kid as a suppression/coping mechanism instead of Kid being an experiment-induced side effect. It reinforces the good-evil theme, that Seniel can be happier learning to live with shades of grey, letting go of the pressure to constantly suppress his "evil" side.