I can't stop thinking about the concept of reincarnation thanks to a certain god -> looking at you, Hue
Spoilers ahead btw, you have been warned (✿◠‿◠)
The story established, that Hue loved/loves Clotho. From what I picked up during my reading of all Hue's stories and mainly "If you were a Goddess", Clotho was not really different from present day MC in character.
When Hue gave up his eye to save her soul, we know, that the very same soul survived and was reincarnated to MC. It's still the same soul, there is no alternation, no buts or ifs, just the Soul ™️
Yet the story tried to portray this as if MC was completely different person and like, I get from where the writers are coming from. MC definitely has her own life experiences that her previous life didn't - she has her own family, education, job, interests. But in her core, Clotho and MC are the same to me. They are both very kind, playfull and selfless personalities. Their mannerism is same too. There is no confirmation but I assume they look same or very similiar in looks too because MC just seen herself when she looked in the water mirror in the "Mussings on Love" story.
In this story, "Mussings on Love" she was transported into the past, where she occupied her previous body of Clotho and it was only due to her own jealousy. She pondered if Hue loves her or the goddess more. But like, how can this even be a question? It's still her. Goddess was her, MC is her, she even has some memories from the past life and they are her own. How can you be jelaous of yourself? In the end MC understood it when she compared past Hue and present Hue - it was still him, she loved both of them the same because both of them carry the same, one Soul ™️
I'm writing all of this because it seriously pissed me off when MC had this bout of jelaousy like Hue's dead girlfriend was some stranger person unrelated to her and she compared the happiness of his past with his happiness in present. Writers also tried very hard to put some questionable lines to Hue's mouth when he said that he loves MC and that he made peace with the goddess death which MC interpreted as:
"Goddess is this different person and I'm me."
The "me" is however, same. In the past, in the present, it's still you, MC. Hue wouldn't love you if you weren't his soulmate, emphasis on soul. To wrap this up (I'm seriously slightly embrassed how lengthy this got) I'd like to cite my favorite quote from TGCF that I find very fitting to this situation:
“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”