[Virche] I have way too many feelings about Ankou

Major major spoilers

Ankou you are a fucking king and you were robbed

But may also the fact that you were denied a happy ending that probably contributes to me liking you so much because holy shit I am an emotional masochist

He hits so many of the tropes I love. The obsession over centuries, the torment of seeing her die, the self loathing. All of it.

A character that fails to notice the girl he loves is so depressed that she kills herself goes on to get captured and tortured and experimented on til he’s immortal and then travel through time only to suffer through hundreds of years on his own waiting for his love to be born

Living until he no longer looks the way his love would remember him, waiting for so long knowing that she won’t look at him the way she used to, because she has no memory of this ‘Adolphe’ from another timeline

All the while bearing the pain and loneliness of her not being around and having to live away from others

Planting an entire island with the flowers he hopes will save her, and hope to one day propose to her with

All the while vowing to himself that this time he will save her and he will cure her of her curse

Yet he’s filled with so much self loathing that when she picks another guy to fall in love with he helps them to escape death and love together because anyone is better than him (side note, watching him give her away to the other LIs after playing Le Salut was pure undiluted torture)

And even when she DOES fall in love with ‘Adolphe’, its only ever present time Adolphe, and not Ankou, the one from another timeline who’s loved her for over 600 years at this point

The only time he gets to kiss her is when he’s just killed her to end her unbearable pain. So he’s suffering a second pain of defeat 600 years after he failed the first time. He waited 600 years just to fail again

And when he does get to propose to Ceres with the flowers he grew, its present timeline Adolphe helping him propose because Ankou is on the verge of death

AND THEN HE JUST DIES AND PRESENT TIMELINE ADOLPHE GETS CERES

This man THIS MAN

I will never recover emotionally from this