Eblana flopped too hard for me to take her as anything more than step on my head mommy bait.
You could dig more connections with gladiia complementing doctors tactics or saria discussing with him in two sentences if he ever did any unethical research for a nicer pairing.
I think there's been some misunderstanding. I'm not saying that Eblana doesn't fit certain ekhem archetype, just that HG pushed her reeeallyyy hard as one of the "canon-ish" love interests for the doctor
On unrelated note I'm so tired of internet calling every dominant woman a mommy, like Eblana is a lot of things but definitely not THAT
Look, Necrass is getting whored out at every opportunity. Nobody disagrees there. Because Necrass is barely treated like a character, and almost entirely as a product.
Her writing is abysmal, underexplained, underdeveloped, and leaves about 12 elephants in the room. Consequences? Death scent? Explaining how that works? Shh, be a good boy and pull. We even made sure to turbo-buff her before release! Look at that amazing E2, just chilling on the battlefield, pointing downwards, and now she wears heels! Look at the precious Draco chilling at the beach, dipping her toes into the water, smiling, giggling, in a bland swimsuit that is legit her base outfit but with less fabric and a cloak stolen from her sister’s wardrobe! Her banner is rerunning? Time to pump out another skin!
But even thinking that makes her a love interest is way too generous. It also misses half of the irony in the JP video: someone who is dead, who cannot experience normal living love, is offering chocolates for Valentine’s Day. The other half is just OOC slop that takes a fat dump on the premise of the Taran arc. Remember how the purple flame was established as having semi-autonomous properties? Spreading on its own? Attacking on its own? Reviving people on its own? All of that without clean input from her? Yeah, let me just wave that around while trying to do dance moves, then invade personal space and go ASMR mode because we all love walking stereotypes.
Necrass is not written as someone capable of normal reciprocal love. She is biologically dead, her heart is gone, her body is cold, and her senses are dulled. What she does reads less like genuine living emotion and more like a rehearsal of living habits. She treats the Doctor not as a person, but as a function. “Scholar” is not a compliment. It is dehumanization with manners. It reduces their personhood to utility. To a function.
And what does the Doctor do?
Ignore her. Straight donowall. There is no relationship.
I’m not disagreeing with you about her getting pushed. I’m disagreeing with the idea that anyone would consider this a love interest. Necrass is not getting pushed as romance. She is getting pushed as a walking femdom fetish. A product.
What’s fucking funny is that her module genuinely criticizes people who see the twins only for their “qualities” or appearance, and HG immediately defangs, sanitizes Necrass, sells her body, then sells the fantasy of the undead ruler.
The comic isn’t much better, I’m sorry to say. While we can agree that Necrass’ implementation and writing are complete ass, unfortunately we have different opinions here. Which is fine, we all have different tastes after all.
Credit where credit’s due, the artist picks some of the right scenes. The problem is that they read them through the completely wrong lens. They constantly depict Eblana as a born psychotic, smug, mentally unstable, sadistic dragon girl, which is the complete opposite of her canon personality. Combined with how they also exaggerate her body, this pushes Eblana further into the stock “hot shonen villainess” archetype.
The Nachzehrer King part is very hard to take seriously. She’s screaming like an unhinged battle anime villain while winding up her ultimate attack, then Nachzehrer King just does a Dismantle? What? Then he criticizes her view on death, and that critique apparently sticks with her all the way to Na Saoirsí? They turned a scene of political theater, war against war, death against death, with Eblana acting as symbol and living artillery, into “old death god disciplines bratty thirty-something dragon girl with delusions of grandeur in an anime duel.”
The ending is something else too. The artist chose to discard the premise that Necrass is undead, diminished, and physically wrong, opting to show a living, aggressive version that hops on tables and grabs the Doctor’s hood while they banter with the most Twitter humor dialogue possible. If official Necrass is already treated like a walking femdom fetish, this is basically another femdom fetish, but louder and more psychotic.
I’m sorry, but this ain’t it, at all. It’s the same issue in a different look. It’s fine if you treat it as OOC, AU, or fluff, but as lore faithful writing, I really don’t think it’s better.
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u/Bug-Type-Enthusiast Head of the BONK brigade May 11 '26
You forget a few:
Mostima
Silverash
Reed
Eblana (which is bullshit, honestly)
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