u/KimBo-Young

I do not understand the sudden fake sympathy for Ratasha she's definitely a complex character but that does not make her any less of a villain.

her literal only redeeming quality is that she wanted to escape slavery which in itself is not a crime she did what she had to do to do that.

but she escaped slavery in chapter 1, she didn't have to become Naviers opp, that's a position she chose to be in, she choose to be the white lotus character who's going out of her way to seem sweet while making sure to badmouth the FL.

In my opinion Ratatsha is actually a GREAT VILLIAN, because for the record she does succeed in her plan of dethroning Navier because the Emperor literally does divorce his Politically Important wife so that he can make her child his official heir, her only issue is having trusted the wrong men to be her allies but Ratasha for every sense is a very intelligent woman,

she's not a minor ever, there's no chapter where she's listed as underage so that's a random lie the fandom came up with to make her seem more pitiful, when I don't doubt that she's younger than Navier and the Emperor, she's never been said to be a minor.

Also another rumor that Ratasha regresses and that's why she choose to act like a child but...no? because that persona that Ratasha has is fake...she doesn't act that way when she's around someone she doesn't have to suck up to, she only acted that way when she was sucking up to the emperor or badmouthing Navier, it's the literal White Lotus character in front view.

Ratasha is a terrible person, her reasoning are real ASF I mean who wouldn't wanna escape slavery, you might even suck a few shlongs to do it, but going out of her way to the another woman's ruin that's evil, throwing her own child because she realized it was a bastard, that's pretty evil, she's not some sweetheart she doesn't have a single chapter where she's just being a nice person for the sake of it.

also People like to say Ratatsha is a victim of her circumstances but so is Navier she was engaged to the emperor when they were young she's been raised to be empress LITERALLY, her husband who's literally her best friend says

"My dad treated his empress like sht after he got a concubine, but I'll never do that to you." and then proceeds to go out of his way to do it to her, everything Ratasha says makes Navier look like a jealous bitch when she literally just stands their aura farming mind you.

saying that she should've helped Ratasha or the Slaves in the empire when Ratasha never even wants to think about the slaves in the empire after she becomes empress, it's a double standard.

Ratasha is a great villian but y'all are to desperate for her to be pathetic that y'all can't see that.

Ratasha Rant PT2(edited in)

it's come to my attention after my last rant that a lot of people do not actually understand what a formal education is especially when the topic is how slaves were educated so I'm going to explain that so that a lot of people stop assuming that Ratasha is an idiot she is not.

a formal education means that you cannot read write and that you may not have a lot of information about history as well as complicated mathematics fractions, pie, statistics those would be examples of complicated mathematics but the average commoner back in the Middle ages when the remarried empress kind of gets its Historical area from would not have a formal education so no ratasha does not have a former education but that does not mean that she is under educated in the ways of social.

first off a slave would be significantly more humble than anyone else because to a slave a regular commoner a beggar even could be considered a noble to them because to them in a lot of cultures slaves were less than humans so they would treat everybody with an elevated level of extra respect.

a lot of people talk about this when it comes to Ratasha's disrespect when it comes to naviers status but a slave would know absolutely not to disrespect royalty especially directly in that Royal face slaves were not dumb they simply couldn't count.

no not all slaves got the exact same education but they did get a similar education most slaves knew how to count they knew with one two three they knew what those were they knew what numbers were they may not know how to write them and they may not know what they look like but they can tell you that if I have one bag and you give me another bag that's two bags.

this is in response to a lot of the comments on my latest post on Ratasha where people are saying that she's under educated and that she can't she doesn't think like the nobility but if she truly were in this mindset of a slave education she would know immediately to bow curtsy or even just make sure that she shows the empress respect especially coming from being a slave specifically because slaves lives were considered as useless as paper they were not important to people in power.

so no Ratasha would not be somebody who did not understand social social hierarchies she would understand it perfectly and she would understand it more than the average Noble because she had been at the bottom of the social hierarchy so much more it's a similar but not the same as black people versus white people black people are significantly more aware of the social hierarchies than white people when white people are raised by non-racist white people they tend to not realize the social hierarchies that are in place.

but a black person even raised in a perfectly loving and amazing community will often be very much aware that at the end of the day they are at the bottom of the social hierarchy especially if they are impoverished so when it comes to the realistics and this non-realistic situation there's no way that Ratasha would not know how to respect and properly address Naiver as empress