They keep trying to push this pairing, showing her as the poster girl front and center in a lot of promo material, but she's such an insignifcant and annoying cunt who just cries and screeches at her family members.
One of my friends dropped the series after CS2, he got tired of Rean, the awful writing, and the whole harem/anime trope hanging around like a bad smell, and I showed him the screenshot at the start of Reverie which asks you to choose Rean's waifu from this huge list of people, and he laughed the hardest I ever heard him laugh.
It's amazing how her
maid is an enforcer, her mother is a mover and shaker of the Erebonia economy and
her father is the second in command of the big bad yet she still manages to feel tacked on. That's an impressive feat.
And yeah, specially since from your friends perspective it's Alisa, Emma, Laura and Fie, maybe Sarah as well at most.
Fair, for me I didn't see her and Rean too much as father and daughter because she is more of the aloof character that learns how to have feelings. If it was Millium it would definitely be on the creepier side because she acts far more childish.
Nah, Tio was the aloof one (then she got flanderized into a walking Mishi joke...), Altina is outright stunted developmentally. And the person that did most of the work to develop her was Rean with some help from Millium and new class 7. That's why I have a hard time with that ship since Rean is Altina's life guide for when she stopped being a puppet. Of course she would adore him, it's almost the only thing she knows. She does give Rean the teacher, which is the only facet of Rean that I enjoy, some of his best moments though. But it should definitely be nothing more than platonic. Same applies to Juna and Musse.
Millium on the other hand may be a manic pixie girl, but she wasn't nearly as stunted as Altina when introduced and by the end of CS2, her emotional development was pretty much done with. In CS3 and 4 she is one of the more "aware" members of the class and since she's not shackled by the Rean cock vortex she can actually have character moments like helping Altina be more human or noticing how Jusis is breaking at the seams by being the head of Albarea alone. Now only hoping there is a payoff to the whole "no, the plot demanded I be a lolly, but not that the curse is gone I can grow!" and the next time we see her she's a head taller than Jusis and has tits bigger than Emma.
I really can't understand who likes this sort of thing. It's the participation award of romance genre.
I find harem's annoying outside of comedy settings and even then they usually overstay their welcome, but unrersolved harems are just pure aids. It's the text book definition of eating and having your cake. I would much rather Rean was commited to that boring vapid whore Alisa and be done with it instead of what we ended up where most characters are trapped in the cock vortex and cannot have lives. Poor Sarah was ruined by this, the comedy gold of her trying to get in Viktor's pants much to Laura's dread could have been great. And it's very noticeable when you look at the characters free from the cock vortex where Jusis and Millium are a thing and music and wind guy got themselves some girlfriends from other classes. Emma and Fie at least have enough going between the hexen clan and old jaeger life to keep them engaging, but Laura ends up with nothing as well.
