Can I just say that I absolutely love Lea? It's strange for me to love a female character this much, since they're usually written like utter shit. But the female characters in Lies of P are so utterly perfect. You have Eugenie who is passionate and brilliant and easily excitable and ADORABLE. You have Sophia who believes in you the way a mother should, always being patient and calling you her clever one, with a heart of gold even though you find out that her motives for awakening you are a bit selfish because SHE needs your help and she's been suffering. Antonia feels like how everyone's grandmother should be--yet she's tough as nails and doesn't want to give up on her life. She's done so much good over all her years, looking after children who didn't have homes or parents, teaching them, loving Carlo with everything she had.
The fact that there are bosses in the game like Laxasia, who is arguably one of the hardest to beat, and Markiona who is no pushover are hard to miss. And then the Legendary Stalker, Lea, who lives up to her name--and you'd automatically assume the Legendary Stalker is going to be a man because it's a fucking man's world, isn't it? You'd think the Stalker of legend would be a man, the toughest of them all, but no. It's Lea, who is so incredibly female and also broken, and a MOTHER to Carlo and Romeo. She's tough on them, but she's so passionate about them. She loves them. She feels such regret for being too late for Carlo, and that's why even on her death bed, she's fighting to do everything she can to save Romeo. She won't lose him the way she did Carlo. She won't let him down. Because she believes in the good in him, and she knows he deserves to live.
I absolutely love all of these women, and I just want to thank Lies of P for doing it properly. You never see a woman who is just there to be the love interest. There aren't any damsels in distress who can't stand up and fight for themselves. All of these female characters are inherently human and REAL and I love them with all of my heart.
