The past that shapes the dragon's lady character; Fushin Ningen episode 3 impression
Curran past is a mystery for viewers up until the the episode three. In retrospect, The only glimpse of her past is only the vision of her party member left her to death. However, there is no explanation about why she ended up hating humanity and how did she became obsessed with delicious foods. While the group consists of four main characters, she is technically the main heroines of the series. Still, how can the main heroine had a very blurry past and how can her importance seems overshadowed with Tiana's presence? The main issues is because she is not thoroughly developed as a character yet so, to make amend, today episode focused mainly on her and it tells a story from Curran's point of view.
In the nutshell Curran is the main strength of the group as well as the heavy damager. She definitely the fit the thrope of warrior as well as the the muscle for the survivor group; maxing all that strengths and vitality stats in your usual role playing game party. Aside from all that powerful quantities, in the deeper part, she is as naive and as a little children and a bit trustful for a half-human and half-dragon lady. One bad encounter with a shady merchant almost put her into a blackmailed position as he secretly exchanged the goods when she was doing a window shopping. The accessory that catches her attention is a liontin with a dragon motif embed on a green plate and the trickster swapped it with a broken one; his motive? off course he tries to extort her by partially blames Curran for accidentally scratches the liontins. Fortunately, her ex- leader Kalios reveals the merchant's scam in front her. After cornering the merchant, Kalios asked for the liontins free of charge and gave it to Curran. With limited experience to Human's sinister nature and mixed with the knowledge that the the dragon kin is destined to accompany the hero's journey, she gladly present her trust wholeheartedly to him.
Trust is not to be given but earned. As good as it sound, a person may earns the trust with an underlying mission behind the act. Her previous party members (including Kalios) actually planned something more sinister than what she could imagine. One important event is when they plan to kill a giant purplish snake inside a gigantic pot. Curran's team members secretly conspired to use her as a life bait. When she manages to get the snake attention, she asks for her team aid. Unfortunately, instead of helping her, they wait patiently for the snake to poison her. What she never think before is they actually planned something more despicable than just leaving her to death. Walking limply back to the inn, she finds out that her ex-team mates already left the inn; proclaiming that she was killed in action. In addition of spreading misinformation, they also took her most prized treasure; the Dragon King Gem (a precious dragon artifact imbued with magic) that she left on her room due to Kalios' insurance that nobody has enough courage stealing from her.
As for her craving to delicious dishes, she inherit it from the solo adventurer named Fifth. Curran hears a rumor of one specific individual who always works solo. She got interested to the man as he is able to survive hard level dungeons alone and the guild master permits him to enter them. As she secretly stalk him, he notices about her presence yet remains quiet and doesn't feel disturbed. One thing that makes Curran takes interests to Fifth is his good palates and ability to choose delicious foods. Whenever he orders a menu, Curran will try to imitate his orders and she uncover more delicious dishes by doing so. The foods are so delicious that it fills the void on her empty heart and makes her forgot about the bad things that happened to her although temporary.
The Survivor squad start to get their fame after they finished their last adventure. Not only that they were known along with the locales, each of them also started to get their trust back for humanity with each passing day. Before long, the guild owner gives a specific request for them. She wants them to search a specific sword names sword of Bonds. The profile of The holy sword is not known for this moment but it seems that the following quest may be a very important step toward their destiny on saving the world
A wholesome episode for a thoroughly character analysis. We catch the glimpse of Curran's characteristics and how she cope with her frustration. While she still lost her most important item, the friendship that started building up with her new squad gradually mending her broken heart. It is really a heartwarming scene seeing her start smiling and enjoying her new companions; she even teased Nick at times. Nick also got a few key moment in this episode as he tries to fix Curran's liontins that he accidentally broke before. He even asks for Agate's advises regarding Curran and how he can talk to her(Goddamn Nick why you kept meeting up with your idol accidentally. I'll be very jealous if you are a real person XD). Unknown to him, that is the same liontins that Kalios gave to her and somehow, Curran still keeps the memento...indicating that deep down inside, she still has one small hope that Kalios must has a good reason for betraying her.
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