Cantarella Vol 9

[meganbmoore]

Ok, seriously, is anyone in this AU NOT in love with their sibling?

Not including the whole "chain up Chiaro and torture him a whole bunch" bit in the last volume, Cesare has added attempting to rape Lucrezia (WTF? Oh Cesare…) and ordering her and Chiaro’s new born son to be murdered. May I just repeat for a moment that he ordered the death of the son of the man he loves and his younger sister(who he also has 50,000 complexes over, brotherly and otherwise)? Can we say "all hopes of redemption lost"? Yes, I think we probably can. I don’t think we can really count his letting the baby live, as it was only so it could be a pawn.

Ok, seriously, Lucrezia needs to change her perfume for something. Virtually every male she meets wants to rape her. At this point, I think only Chiaro, Alfonso, Volpe and her father haven’t tried at it. AND I’M NOT SURE I TRUST MORE THAN TWO OF THEM!!! (Ok, fine, the pope is a sucky father, but he wouldn’t do that, so I guess I only don’t trust Volpe…)

And Sancia has decided to be Lucrezia’s BFF and do all her thinking for her. That is sweet. Except for the part where I’m pretty sure Sancia would betray her to Cesare in a heartbeat…

Then there’s Alfonso. He and Cesare should have a "very wrong sister complex" face off. And I am amused at Higuri’s blatantly keeping it so that only Chiaro gets to have sex with Lucrezia. Uhm…True (only non-incestuous, non-bisexual, non-master/servant) Love FTW?

(They’re all so screwed…)

Chiaro is moping and being a winemaker way off somewhere. I hope he gets over it soon. And…uhm…did Niccolo get a personality transplant or something? Where’s all his sorcery and scheming? Well, at least it seems he’s about to dropkick Chiaro back to Rome. To kill Cesare.

Oh, and it seems that Cesare has decided to pretend that Volpe is Chiaro or some such. Oy. Uhm…at least someone in the book (Volpe) will finally be kinda happy? Well, Sancia is getting semi-regular Cesare, and I’m sure that makes her happy.

(They’re all so screwed…)

I sense deep, bad, wrong things in Alfonso’s future. That have nothing to do with his incestuous feelings for Sancia or his willingness to let his wife keep sex pets. Or whatever he thinks Chiaro will be once he gets him installed in the house for Lucrezia. Uhm, yeah.

 

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Alphonso is screwed. I figure Cesare will kill him about book 13. I like Alphonso the most though. He's the sly type of character that grows on me.

And is it just me or did Chiaro succumb to the "nearly taken out by a flesh wound" corellary that happens sometimes? That arrow wound didn't look near bad enough for him to be falling off a horse and passing out in 8.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I give Lucrezia and Sancia about 70% chances of making it out alive, and Chiaro about 50%. I also give Lucrezia/Chiaro about a 50% chance of making it out alive and together. Everyone else I assume will die.

At this point, I think I like Alfonso best myself.

Didn't Chiaro keep riding after getting the arrow wound? I assumed that just made the wound worse.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Since historically Alphonso was killed on order of Cesare, he's a dead man. Sad as he just sort of popped up and I sort of love him. Cesare will die in a flurry of battle, by my guess. Volpe will be stabbed by someone, possibly Cesare. Lucrezia had a third husband that she at least got along with that will probably show and who will live on the basis of whether Chiaro lives or not.

Chiaro did keep riding, but then hasn't he done ten million other things while wounded? It just seemed like a wimpy wound to put him out of commission.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the mangaka is going so far out of her way to keep it that only Chiaro gets to have sex with Lucrezia that I half expect her to make Chiaro her third husband or something.

Wasn't Chiaro also wounded by Perrotto? Could just still be out of it from that.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

But wasn't the Perrotto thing a while back? It just seemed like he got shot and was suddenly in unspeakable pain, so much so that I thought Volpe had put something on the arrow and kept waiting for someone to explain, but I'm led to believe it was just a plain old arrow.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think Perotto was only in vol 7, and they've been on the move since then.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

No pictures with nudity please, painting or otherwise.

[surgingshark.livejournal.com]

I was going to edit the thing, but your custom style doesn't leave a link for comment edits -_-

Instead, I give you this: