The phrasing of the curse seems specific here but I’m a bit confused. Does the sea goddess consider humans as an “equal”? Or did she mean not to kill a fellow mermaid?
If I’m allowed to express an opinion, I don’t think Arista was cursed. Humans and merfolk were never equals after all.
I’m dying to see more of this chapter!
I feel similarly. I don’t think the sea goddess would care much about human lives and probably wouldn’t feel they’re considered equals.
Disneyprince14
1 year ago
Poor,Arista. A poor unfortunate soul.
Anonymus
1 year ago
After that’s happened at Arista it’s nothing in confront at that happens in near future at Ariel when she was in her 16’s..
Yeah we already knew that go in next chapters ..as well the worst becoming more and more darker and horrific..beyond any possible imagination..but like every stories still always a brief hope in some improvements…we cannot known if was good or bad..no?
Arista is just a child who had to face a horrible and traumatic situation to survive. In contrast, Ariel chose to disobey her father and follow a boy she had never talked to before. What happened to Arista seems much more terrible to me; Ariel’s situation, on the other hand, is simply the result of her own bad choices.
Cindya
1 year ago
I didn’t know what to expect, but it certainly wasn’t this. You guys never fail to surprise your readers!
White Phoenix
1 year ago
I thought the human would do something horrible to Arista and I guess that happened after all, but I didn’t guess it would be from his death.
I think we all thought that. Either that or someone else would manage to save Arista at the last second from some unsavory life at a freak show among the humans.
Glowworm
1 year ago
I know this is traumatic for poor Arista but we can all agree that what she did was in self defense. That was a drunken asshole who also happened to be a thief. If he had survived, there’s no telling what he would have done to the poor little thing.
We see it that way but I can see why Arista wouldn’t if the sea goddess is anything like the First One and Second One from the real mythology. I still remember that they only approved of women loving other women in the human worlds. When the Third One created men and those men started violating women, the goddesses were disgusted but had no sympathy for the women. They considered them tainted and spoiled for bearing children the natural way.
Noooo
The phrasing of the curse seems specific here but I’m a bit confused. Does the sea goddess consider humans as an “equal”? Or did she mean not to kill a fellow mermaid?
That’s exactly what Arista doesn’t know.
If I’m allowed to express an opinion, I don’t think Arista was cursed. Humans and merfolk were never equals after all.
I’m dying to see more of this chapter!
I feel similarly. I don’t think the sea goddess would care much about human lives and probably wouldn’t feel they’re considered equals.
Poor,Arista. A poor unfortunate soul.
After that’s happened at Arista it’s nothing in confront at that happens in near future at Ariel when she was in her 16’s..
Yeah we already knew that go in next chapters ..as well the worst becoming more and more darker and horrific..beyond any possible imagination..but like every stories still always a brief hope in some improvements…we cannot known if was good or bad..no?
Arista is just a child who had to face a horrible and traumatic situation to survive. In contrast, Ariel chose to disobey her father and follow a boy she had never talked to before. What happened to Arista seems much more terrible to me; Ariel’s situation, on the other hand, is simply the result of her own bad choices.
I didn’t know what to expect, but it certainly wasn’t this. You guys never fail to surprise your readers!
I thought the human would do something horrible to Arista and I guess that happened after all, but I didn’t guess it would be from his death.
I think we all thought that. Either that or someone else would manage to save Arista at the last second from some unsavory life at a freak show among the humans.
I know this is traumatic for poor Arista but we can all agree that what she did was in self defense. That was a drunken asshole who also happened to be a thief. If he had survived, there’s no telling what he would have done to the poor little thing.
We see it that way but I can see why Arista wouldn’t if the sea goddess is anything like the First One and Second One from the real mythology. I still remember that they only approved of women loving other women in the human worlds. When the Third One created men and those men started violating women, the goddesses were disgusted but had no sympathy for the women. They considered them tainted and spoiled for bearing children the natural way.
*hugs Arista*
Oh wow, is Arista’s backstory an allegory for surviving sexual assault and religious trauma?
The authors did mention religious trauma, but no sexual assault.
Oh ok, I just had an allegorical interpretation, that’s all. 🙂
It’s okay 🙂