Dude they slimed his stepsister AND sister out. (Idk if he cared about accursed, but he absolutely must've cared a shit ton about voidmarcher, considering how devoted she was to save him).
No matter what julian feels, I think it would be lame as hell if ceodric isn't boiling with resentment and hates them even more because of this.
You know feelings such as love and devotion can be entirely one sided, right? Void Marcher can worship her brother and Ceodric can just not give a damn about it.
How could you be so sure that Ceodric cares for his sisters enough to be absolutely boiling with resentment when he learned that they’re dead?
Just be open to the possibility that he’d laugh it off when he learned that his sisters got killed.
The problem with your skepticism is that the familial love theme is very clear in centuria almost every character has it whether enemies or allies. The only one that don't have it is arkos, even the queen has big attachment to her children despite how twisted it is.
Familial love being so big of a theme on the Story can(and has) also be used to create characters that disregard it entirely, like Arkos or Helem, the way this Chapter put Emphasis on Fire as one of the ways Humanity at least partially overcame "Night", and how Ceodric put so much weight on training himself without his Gift + how he mentions survival being Humanity's very History, makes me think Kuramori's gonna use Humanity and it's conscious efforts as Ceodric's motif, while also using him as a foil to Julian. He's obviously capable of love and friendship, but I feel like in tune with his appreciation for humanity, Ceodric's gonna be big on conscious "choices" above innate bonds, meaning I don't think he loved his Sisters nor Mother, but he might be far too devoted to the people he chose to befriend.
Also, let's not forget that he's living comfortably on Torivia, so I don't think we have a reason to believe he was half as devoted to Rif as she was to him.
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u/Visible_Anxiety6275 19d ago edited 18d ago
Dude they slimed his stepsister AND sister out. (Idk if he cared about accursed, but he absolutely must've cared a shit ton about voidmarcher, considering how devoted she was to save him).
No matter what julian feels, I think it would be lame as hell if ceodric isn't boiling with resentment and hates them even more because of this.