King has bottom eyelashes since the beggining. Another different thing is that Nakaba used to draw it always or almost always. But he has them since
then.
Still, that was my point, that Nakaba doesn't always stay consistent when it comes to such small details as eyelashes, we have theories on various possibilities for her full identity, but it could go either way. It's odd though that Nakaba chose to have the mc run into maybe the designated giantess of the story this early, as the first important character Mel and Elizabeth went to recruit was Diane, the Taizai designated giantess, in the Forest of White Dreams. He's not shaking off som of his habits.
Friendly reminder Nakaba wanted to make her appear again alive for 2nd Vaizel Tournament but at the end due to certain circunstances for that arc, he didnt. But his idea was already making her being alive after all this time.
He could've still made his mind up to keep the original character permanently MIA. And if she's not bound to be at least the OP healer of the team, like Elizabeth, or the heroine with a mystery to solve, one many of the fans wouldn't already be aware of owed to reading the previous work, the original Dolores can't have any more relevance. We never got a hint towards original Dolores being anything more than Diane's moral stepping stone.
Aside from the fact that Eli probably wouldn't be comfortable with her best friend's daughter worshipping her to this extent
We saw the Sins visiting Lyonesse for Tristan's 10 yo birthday and that was the very 1st time in his life he met them, without even having been told, previously, tales of their adventures(Gowther let him know in a scary way), he had no idea the Sins had actually been heroes of the country...and even though that would've been a safe way to introduce their kid to the human realm and their old friends, King and Diane still left them behind in the Fairy Realm...implying they might be a tad overprotective. And the Sins, at least those who ended up marrying and having kids, not all as open about past exploits as Ban, for instance.
True, Elizabeth wouldn't be comfortable with her best friend's child doing that, the child's own parents wouldn't be comfortable with that, but when was puberty not a time for kids to misunderstand things about reality, when incompletely revealed to them, and still go against their parents' wishes? It could be exactly the parents' wariness of revealing too much to their children, while they feel the kids aren't yet ready for that, leading to droves of misunderstandings and contrary to expectations behaviour.
Isn't that exactly why she should return? The giant clan was barely explored at all in NNT
Original Dolores isn't a proper exponent of the Giant Clan, she'd always gone completely against everything they are and stand for. Nakaba could hardly be bothered to explore the clan through Matrona and Diane(especially Diane who was a supporting main) and these 2 strayed a bit from what the Giant Clan was, while still nurturing their warrior side, reliant on their bond with the land(but in all, became much more balanced representatives).
Elaine mentioned that King and Diane's kid is cute so the gang is still in contact with each other to some extent.
Actually, that bit only confirms Elaine...and her family...are in contact with King's, nothing about the others. Elaine is the offspring of the Sacred Tree so she has free access to the Fairy Realm, Ban is the human who saved the Fairy Forest, so he's probably allowed to visit too, Lance is these two's kid so it goes without saying(at least before his disappearance) that he could keep in touch with his extended family...if anything the one-shots and last chapter of Taizai insinuate that the visits between these old friends are rare and far in between.
I mean, the very first character to make a return was Katz, who was so irrelevant and uninteresting that most people probably didn't even remember who he was.
I still don't remember who he was in the original, and he was left behind in this as well, so still irrelevant enough for me to have to spend a few seconds to remember who he's supposed to be at least in MnY. He's likely to end up bearing the same relevance as the Vaizel tournament dude who organised the 2nd one and was killed off...yeah, can't remember his name either, at this point. Or like Twiggo...or Zarathras...or, you get my point.
The way is look at all of this is that Nakaba wants to keep some distance between this series and NNT, especially since he stated that you don't need to be familiar with NNT to be able to follow this
Which is far more supportive of the idea of Dolores being a new character, regardless of being offspring to a pair of mains in Taizai or not.
her fake death was just a a quick and light mention from Matrona and was not very significant, so in this case I would have even expected it to be fake than otherwise.
It's not like if we bring Gloxinia again, for example.
It would still be like bringing back Matrona, light version. I don't hate original Dolores, her attitude was completely understandable and relatable irl, but I don't see where exactly could Nakaba pull some reasonable relevance for her in this context. They have technically 2 mascots, already, and current Dolores is far more proactive and almost a complete 180 turn away from original Dolores, and she behaves like someone who was raised by Diane and King at their wisest( minus the whole GC worshipping stuff).
I do wonder for the Four Knights of the Apocalypse will they get their own version of weapon classification like it was for the Sins' Sacred treasures?
I'd be surprised if Nakaba finally realised that people want to read about where special weapons come from and how they come to be, have their powers properly explained at the appropriate time and not get the Courechouse treatment...but you never know with him...
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