I Will Become The Final Villain’s Bird Chapter 38 Discussion

I'm gonna say out the gate that I am extremely bias. As a massive bird nerd, I always love stories where a bird heavily features. To top it off I am a sucker for romance, and the cliche "I was reincarnated as non-human thing and later can swap between human and non-human forms". To put it simply, this is very much my cup of tea.

Starting off, I love our MC. His kind nature and just fun inner dialogue is really captivating to me. He expresses caution and aversion to getting involved with ML at first, but can't ignore him in the end because of his nature. Yes it can also be seen as being an overdone character trait, the whole "oh no he's a villain but I can't just leave him to die!!", but I just find MC really charming regardless. In his inner dialog we see how fearful he is, but he still pushes through with things to the end. Maybe that's what makes me so drawn to him, idk lol.

As things are now I also like ML. Since I'm not far in yet I am worried about how he will treat our MC when he becomes human, since often in BL toxic relationships get romanticised a lot. Right now he's a very sympathetic character, and I really really really hope he doesn't turn into one of those hyper obsessive and controlling MLs. Like there are hints of obsession already, but it's at an acceptable level currently, and our MC doesn't seem upset or opposed to it at all.

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The villain we've been introduced to, the Empress? I LOVE HER! She's such a good antagonist character. We've already gotten some peaks into the tomboyish and cheerful young lady she used to be, so it makes me really interested to know how her personality became so warped. Also she's already had some sick lines. Like: "I, your mother, will place the empire in your hands." It's so simple but oh my god she's so cool and hot. I'm looking forward to more of her.

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To finish, I want to give all my love to the translator, Frey Translations! Everything is so well done and reads smoothly. I can't help myself from going to their page daily to refresh and check for updates.

I'm excited to see where the story goes, and highly recommend checking it out!

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Now, I want to start my update with outlining that I fully understand other people's feelings about chapter 29/30, and I agree to an extent, but I have a slightly different opinion.

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ML kills an innocent person for no reason, and MC barely reacts. As people with basic morals and understanding that mu*der is disgusting and horrible and should not be glorified or romanticized, this obviously is extremely uncomfortable to read. But, I think its meant to be uncomfortable for the reader.

I think the author is showing us that not only is ML not a good person, is a villain, but that MC is no longer a human. As humans, we created our own standards of morals, of right and wrong. Here's a real life example: dolphins will group up and literally b*at a shark to d*ath for fun.

MC is no longer human, down to a biological level, his thinking is inherently different. It's outlined multiple times that MC feels an aversion to humanity as a whole, and is trying to grapple with this change as it battles with his memories as a human. This is taken a step further with this scene. ML kills an innocent person, and MC discovers that all he really feels is a mild discomfort. He realizes how f*cked up that is, and doesn't want to continue dwelling on his own greying morality.

So, while I agree that the scene feels gross and bad to read, I also think it's a really good illustration of our main characters' major flaws.

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