🔥 TUMBLR DEEP DIVE: EMMA’S “PURE HEART” IS A LIE AND HERE’S THE RECEIPT 🔥
aka: “Stop Calling Her Kind When She’s Just Controlling”
(nokto sequel and azel route spoilers)
Let’s get one thing straight:
Emma (Belle) isn’t some kindhearted saint. She’s self-righteous, reckless, and repeatedly endangers herself and the princes under the guise of “helping.”
And before anyone jumps in with "But she means well!"
Here’s just a couple of the many receipts:
🎨 1. THE AUCTION SABOTAGE (Nokto’s Sequel)
Nokto and Silvio had everything under control. They’d already replaced the paintings with fakes to catch the culprit. They had a plan. They had protection in place.
Fake paintings. Surveillance. Guards. A whole plan.
She sees the culprit entering the storage room and decides to confront them alone. No weapon. No plan. No backup. Not even a warning to Nokto or Silvio.
· Sees the culprit enter storage.
· Confronts them alone. Unarmed. No plan.
Result? She nearly gets hurt, Nokto sees her in danger, and he literally goes pale and panics — a trauma response she doesn’t even acknowledge. When he tells her not to do it again, she argues.She valued her savior complex over his mental well-being.
· Nokto sees her in danger, goes pale, and has a panic attack (a trauma response she completely disregards).
· He tells her not to intervene next time—a completely reasonable boundary.
· She ignores him, stubbornly insisting she did the right thing.
This isn’t courage. This is main character syndrome. She inserted herself into a situation she knew nothing about, undermining Nokto’s agency and planning, and then acted like she was the victim of his “overprotectiveness.”
👉 This isn’t bravery. It’s narcissistic recklessness. She undermined his strategy and made his trauma about her need to feel like a hero.
She didn’t trust him. She didn’t respect his strategy. She wanted to be the hero—even if it meant risking everything he’d carefully built.
⛪️ 2. THE TEMPLE INCIDENT (Azel’s Route, Ch. 8-9 I think)
Azel — who has a known trauma response to blood — asks Emma to heal a worshipper. When he walks away, pale and shaken, to regulate himself…
So What happened (I repeat):
Azel asks Emma to heal an injured worshipper. But then—he walks away. He’s pale. Shaken. It’s clear he’s triggered (blood =clearly a trauma for him).
Instead of respecting that?
Emma chases after him, physically blocks his path with her arms raised, and demands to know why he left—as if he owes her an explanation.
A man was actively triggered and trying to ground himself. She decided her confusion mattered more than his boundaries.
She made it about her confusion.
She raised her arms like he was the problem.
This isn’t empathy. This is emotional violence.
· She witnessed clear signs of distress and made it about her confusion.
· She violated his emotional and physical space while he was actively trying to regulate himself.
· She assumed she knew what was best instead of trusting that he knew his own limits.
👉 This isn’t empathy. This is emotional trespassing. Azel didn’t need her savior complex—he needed space. And she couldn’t even give him that !
👁 THE REAL PATTERN: SELFISHNESS DISGUISED AS SELFLESSNESS
Emma doesn’t help others — she feeds her own ego. she doesn’t help people for them—she helps people to feel needed. To feel like the heroine of her own fairytale. Even when the “princes” explicitly say:
· She needs to feel needed.
· She needs to be the heroine.
· She needs to believe she’s “pure-hearted” even when her actions are invasive and harmful.
She’s not brave. She’s reckless.
She’s not kind. She’s controlling.
She’s not healing anyone—she’s re-traumatizing them for her own narrative benefit.
She’s not compassionate. She’s controlling.
She’s not selfless. She’s self-aggrandizing.
She’s not healing anyone — she’s retraumatizing them.
💬 WHY FANDOM SEETHES AND FIND HER IRRITATING AND ANNOYING:
“She’s the person who ‘helps’ you move but breaks your valuables—then cries when you get upset.”
“Emma doesn’t see the princes as people. She sees them as projects. As mirrors. As props.”
“I don’t hate her because she’s flawed. I hate her because her flaws are romanticized by cybird's unrealistic narrative”
⚠️ WHY THIS IS TOXIC (AND NOT JUST A FLAW)
Cybird frames her behavior as virtuous.
The princes reward her with romance.
The narrative refuses to call her out.refuses to hold her accountable.
· That love means ignoring boundaries
· That “kindness” means never listening
· That being “pure-hearted” excuses causing harm
But real kindness respects boundaries
Real empathy doesn’t need the spotlight.
✅ HOW IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
Another emotionally intelligent MC would:
· Trust the princes’ plans (Nokto/Silvio’s painting trap)
· Respect clear boundaries (Azel walking away = “I need a moment”)
· Communicate (“Nokto, the culprit is in the storage—what’s the plan?”)
· Prioritize safety over saviorism
But Emma doesn’t. Because her character isn’t written to grow—she’s written to be right even though she's usually wrong!
Emma’s “heroism” is a narrative device that rewards selfishness, punishes boundaries, and turns trauma into romantic set dressing. We see you, Cybird. And we’re not buying it.
Emma isn’t pure. She’s performative.
Emma isn’t brave. She’s reckless.
She isn’t kind. She’s controlling.
She isn’t selfless. She’s selfish.
She isn’t healing the princes — she’s retraumatizing them.
She isn’t healing anyone — she’s making their trauma about her.
And we see right through it.
Reblog if you’re tired of her “heroism” being romanticized.
This is just a droplet in the ocean , Emma has done worse.
Let’s hold fictional heroines (bc belle is not the only mc who has all of these catastrophic traits)— and their writers accountable.
