Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon? V

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Freya tried to play nice. It doesn't work. Now, she's determined to play dirty, which will have some major consequences for Orario as a whole. Although we don't know exactly what she did at the end of this episode—one of her children commented that she wasn't using divine powers, although that seems highly unlikely. -we see the result: everyone, except Bell and Hestia, is now convinced that when Bell first arrived in the city, he joined the Freya Familia.

In a sense, this may not just be Freya playing dirty games with the boy she loves, but also her trying to right a wrong she feels she's committed. If her family had initially accepted Bell when he arrived in Orario, things would have turned out very differently. Whether or not she knows that his growth is largely due to his relationships with Hestia and Ais is up for debate; what she now finds attractive about him may not have been present if he had originally joined her group. But at this point, Freya might not care. She was pushed to the point of no return, allegedly due to her inability to accept that she couldn't have the person she wanted. And when we're in that state, making the right decisions doesn't happen very often.

All of this makes Freya look very bad, and that may not be an entirely fair perspective. Reading Family Chronicles: Freya Episode gives perspective, because she has been searching for her relatives for a long time with increasing desperation. Were her actions this week selfish? That's right—she's like a kid on the playground pushing another kid off the swing she wanted without any thought or concern for the consequences. Just getting that swing makes her happy. Even though Bell doesn't love her Syr personality, she is sure that if people believe that he is her son and lover, he will follow suit. She might not even realize that he would be hurt and confused long before it happened and those feelings, as well as his feelings about Hestia, Ais, Ryu and the others another, could cause his heart to never belong to Freya.. Her actions may have been wrong, but they were also immature, which might be the more prominent point.

The fact that Hermes knew that Hestia would escape Freya's brainwashing if she enhanced her divinity and that he sent Asfi and Ryu out of the city means that the trickster god was fully aware of Freya's about to do. That raises some interesting possibilities, especially since Hermes knows he will be affected just like everyone else. First, it states that Freya's magic or influence has a limited range, meaning those outside the city will not be affected. Second, Hestia's domain in Heaven makes her immune to Freya's magic in a way that other gods are not. This opens up a few possibilities. One, of course, is that Hestia is the virgin goddess, while Freya is the goddess of love, including the sexual aspect. It's unlikely that simply being sexually inactive is enough to offset Freya's effects (although in another story, I wonder about whether asexuals and asexuals might be immune). , so it must be because Hestia is a goddess. Although we do not know whether other virgin goddesses were present in Orario, it is important that Hestia was the goddess of the hearth. The hearth is often considered the heart of the home, making it so important that homesteaders cannot officially transition to another family until a year has passed—and the family is a home. Freya's theft of the Bell was in some ways illegal, but Hestia's dominion over the hearth could give her more protection against a spell that attempted to interfere with that world.

As for why Bell is immune, it could be as simple as him being unconscious at the time Freya cast the spell. But I think it might have more to do with Freya's will. She wants Bell, yes, but she also wants him to choose her. That's why she played the whole Syr game in the first place—she didn't want to force him to love her; she just wanted him to love her with his own strength. Making him falsely believe that he will always be part of her family defeats that purpose; If she can show him a life with her that makes him want to be a part of it, then she will win his heart. She may be playing dirty, but part of her is Syr, a girl who wants the boy she likes to come back to her too.

Syr never existed and always has existed. She and Freya are one and the same, and that will either liberate people or condemn them to living in Freya's bubble.

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