I.e. The hero's presence makes the villagers uncomfortable. As usual.
Like, it's fine. They get along with her fine. Always a little put off by her antics, always a little uneasy with her semblance to zombies, always a little bit nervous about her mysterious immortality situation, sure. But otherwise it's fine. Even if she'd give almost anything to feel normal for once, she learned her lesson in the past, and knows better now than to push her luck really trying to befriend a village. So the skittish behavior and general discomfort of all of the villagers is fine.
No matter if it gets to her every so often.
There are however two villagers in particular who are extra displeased by the hero's persistent meddling in the village, which is eventually compounded by her new 'pet' illager.
Faeda is the definition of not fucking around. She lost her partner and parent of her child to a zombie one night, and now has zero tolerance for danger, or potential danger. Which she sees much of in the hero. While her trade was once an artisanal craft and sport, she's secretly taken to trying to actually learn to wield a bow and arrow against monsters, acting against the peaceful villager way.
Karst refuses to see the hero as anything other than a liability. Spending a lot of time with books due to the fact that his brother is the librarian, and the only way to reconstruct maps without traveling is through copious reading and studying, he has read plenty about the world and its dangers and its mysteries. Even so all of his studies have revealed next to nothing about the hero which he sees as all the more reason to be leery. While his brother holds roughly the same amount of knowledge in this regard, sees him as spineless for not being nearly as vocally against the hero's constant meddling in the village.
The hero bringing an illager around suddenly only validates their feelings on the hero. For now.
okay i’m getting a bit stressed and like it’s kinda ridiculous i know BUT
what if they don’t end up together in the last episode or like they not happy and that ? i don’t think im gonna be able to deal with a sad ending like cant they just be okay and fine not even perfect just like okay and together ?
“Hey Little brother,” Erik greeted. “Excited for your romantic rendezvous?”
“Shut up,” Wille groaned, a blush rising to his cheeks.
“Just making sure you didn’t chicken out,” Erik laughed. “Since August seems to be under the impression that you are coming home this weekend.”
“Fucking August,” Wille muttered. “He’s staying back and I just- didn’t want to deal with him.”
“So if you’re not staying there, and you’re not coming here…” Erik began, pausing for Willie to answer and giving another laugh when Wille didn’t fill in the blanks. “Pray tell Wilhelm, where exactly is my little brother spending the weekend? I thought your crush went to Hillerska?”
