I am convinced that Sherry is the mastermind behind Rey’s route.
Like you cannot tell me that Rey was not like “uh, so Sherry. How would you feel if I started dating your bestie” and she started telling him all about the wedding plans she had for them because she knew her bestie likes him too.
She and Rey likely planned this whole thing to invent a situation where they’d get bonding time and he’d get a chance to work up the nerve to confess.
That being said I have other thoughts on this route.
I’m pretty sure this event TANKED his popularity over on JP and I can already pinpoint why: he doesn’t quite FEEL like himself. Not until the end.
I will admit, if I had it my way, the Invidian royal family would be very different (lmk if you want to see what I’d have done with them instead). Rey himself, his very existence, is a concept that I like a lot. A prince who escaped being euthanized at birth because of his cult crazy grandpa (who definitely f*’ed up the psyches of his son and daughter-in-law a lot more than they let on), and has only recently learned he’s a prince.
I feel the writers don’t want to get into what his story would look like outside Roy’s book 2 because it would be so messy, and let’s not get into all that again… The problem is then that he just… doesn’t make sense outside it. Like why is HE, the eldest son, not in magic school working to see if he has unawakened Ancient Magic? Why is he some merchant guy???
He doesn’t quite fit into the rest of his family and part of that is that he is pretty much an adopted kid who reached out to find his biological family so he’s on friendly terms with them, but isn’t part of that family to the same degree.
I just think that he’s one of those characters who deserves more and isn’t going to get it because they don’t know what to do with him.
I uh… just don’t think the writers depicted Roy’s parents very well.
I think depicting Charlotte as someone more haunted by the things that happened because of Bruno would have given the horrible things he’d done more weight. It feels like the writers just didn’t acknowledge the fact that she is the one who gave birth to two babies and then just had to accept that one of them was going to be killed because her father-in-law said so (Talk about bad in-laws smh).
I think it would have been more narratively interesting if she absolutely believed Rey, but could not publicly do so because of the cover-up. She’d have served more purpose if his return reopened wounds she thought had healed by offering her a chance to really love the boy she privately mourned his whole life for. I think that’s a more realistic depiction of parents who lost children they wanted too.
I don’t think the writers did a whole lot of research on parenthood, or are parents, because they have Klaus and Charlotte glaze over the fact that the traumatic story of Roy and Rey’s separation is their welcoming to parenthood. It feels like they’re talking about someone else. They lost a child and had to pretend they didn’t; that’s traumatic, and I 100% believe that they waited until they hoped Bruno would be dead by the time the pregnancy was over to have Sherry because they did not want anything remotely similar to happen again.
Klaus’s relationship with Bruno is something I also want to see more of because there is absolutely no way Bruno was a good father because a lot of the things Klaus does as a parent give a distinct “I’m trying to break a cycle of abuse, so I ask that you help me” vibe. I very much think he and Charlotte lived in fear of Bruno until he was dead and afterwards wanted to bury all the horrible memories they had of him because they didn’t know how else to cope without it feeling like he was still there to hurt them. And they didn’t want to believe those feelings were real because he was part of their family, and is the reason they met and were married.
In short, Klaus and Charlotte didn’t do anything in Roy’s Book 2 when they absolutely should’ve been doing stuff and there was no good reason given but like 12 ways they could’ve justified it.
