from I'm in Love with the Villainess, Light novel #2, wherein we get to witness the love interest's slow-burn radicalization against the aristocracy she was born into :back-to-me: .

Something that's really neat about the story is that the isekai protagonist, Rae(/Rei) Taylor isn't isekai :john-brown:, she's an unabashed liberal opportunist, whose only goal is for her and her beloved waifu Claire to survive the Revolution that she knows is inevitable. So she ends up siding against the aristocracy purely because that's the most pragmatic choice: she doesn't actually have any real beef with the political arrangement of feudalism, but simultaneously acknowledges its brutality, making an interestingly contradictory character.

    • Vida [she/her,ze/hir]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it gets really fucking wild. LN 2 is fantastic. LN 3 seemed like it would be pretty dumb at first but their children are so fucking cute and the Cooking Contest To Revitalize Br*tish Cuisine was fucking great. Light novels 4 and 5 go much further off the rails: I love being told by a :biblically-accurate-kitty: that the fate of humanity relies on how much I kiss my wife.

      Politically speaking, the happenings across the latter novels provoke some interesting pondering, though I don't want to spoil tooo much.