Frieren had NO IDEA 🤯 | Frieren Episode 13-14 REACTION 

"Their moment of clarity." Well, after all that, she left for a short 50 year trip, met Himmel one last time before he died, and then said "I barely knew him" at his grave.

The scene of him putting the ring on her, there’s a clock in the background. The only thing standing between them is time.

When I first watched episode 14, I remembered she was examining the ring in episode 1. Talk about foreshadowing. When Himmel dropped to one knee to give it to her to her, it totally caught me off guard. I literally had a tear in my eye and it caught my breath. So cool! ❤ It remains my favorite episode of the entire series. And only now did she come to realize Himmel's true feelings for her.

"I'm used to losing things" is the most heartbreaking line in the whole season.

As freiren retraces her path with himmel and her journey to defeat the deamon king . She is also revisiting her memories of himmel and her relationship . The one tell was back in ep 5 when the eaten projected himmel vs.flamme yo freiren given its m.o. & freirens response

What is really important to remember is that Frieren and the Elves in general are not emotionless. They are simply different than humans because they live in a different time than humans. Humans meet and get married and have a family within the first 30 years of our lives in most cases. An Elf doesn't have to be that constricted. They can pursue their hobbies for 500 years, meet someone nice during that time, spent a couple of centuries getting to know them, and then get married and have a family. It's the same thing a human does, but with a different time perception. And that is a normal elf's mentality. A normal Elf would have understood everything Himmel tried to convey to Frieren and all the things that he did for her that showed his love for her. Because they would do the same thing when courting their own significant other. But Frieren didn't pick on that. Why? That is because Frieren is emotionally distant or stunted , and that is by choice. Frieren is not a reliable narrator and that is something most people miss when they see the show. As we have established the Elves have emotions, the same range and with the same intensity as humans. Frieren's comment that the Elves don't have romantic and reproductive urges is wrong because that is her perception alone and this claim has already been debunked by the anime and manga. If they lacked romantic and reproductive urges then they would have gone extinct a long time ago because no new elves would be born and no families would exist. But that is not the case as we have seen that Frieren herself lived in a village with her family, and the village had families and more importantly CHILDREN. That means that the Elves do have romantic and reproductive urges, same as all other races in this world. They are simply living in a different time than the rest of the races of this world such as humans and dwarves, and that creates a dissonance with the rest of the races because the Elves don't understand why all other races make quick decisions and seem to be in a hurry all the time and the rest of the world don't understand the Elves because it seems as if they move and do things at a snail pace, when in reality all of them are doing the exact same thing but have a different understanding of time because of the different perception and life expectancy. A human or even a dwarf cannot spent a decade in a village visiting a friend, an elf could easily do so because in their eyes if they are away from home for a decade, nothing of note would have happened. If they have a family, a decade later would be as if they went to visit a friend in another city and they returned home after a week. Something might have happened but you wouldn't expect to have lost the childhood of your children. And there is the difference in the perception of time that creates all the problems between the races. Now, the reasons for the Elves going extinct I mentioned before. The reason that the Elves are going extinct is not a lack of romantic and reproductive urges. They are going extinct for two reasons. The first reason is the near total war that the demons declared on them that led to a lot of casualties and the second is their different sense of time. While they do have reproductive urges and romantic feelings, because they live for so long it is not necessary for them to find a romantic partner and create a family within the first 2 to 3 decades of their lives as humans usually do, meaning that the birth rates of the Elven race are significantly lower compared to the other races. Add to that the war with the Demons for more than a millennia, that we know of, and you have a recipe for disaster. The elven population was decimated as a result of the genocidal war with the demons and the elves are now few and far between with their population dwindling and dying out. If they could get together and create a secluded community they might save their species, but that would be difficult because they would have to start actively searching the continent to find the remaining Elves and bring them together. Now why is Frieren different than a normal Elf? That is because of the way she grew and lived. Frieren was the sole survivor of the attack on her village when she was a young girl. After that she lived with Flamme that taught her that the best possible way to fight effectively against demons is to be an unknown quantity. To hide her mana and to have never made a name for herself so that the demons would have never heard of her. While they visited towns and cities for supplies and news, they never interacted for anything more than shopping with anyone. So, Frieren's social skills and manners are nothing more than what is needed to interact civilly with another for work and shopping. After all, after Flamme's death she secluded herself in her forest and lived as a hermit. She only visited towns and kingdoms for supplies and news. Nothing more. She has no real understanding of how to behave around people, she had no real friendships or relationships of any kind until Himmel and his party pestered her to go with them. Himmel, Heiter and Eisen were the first real friends she had since Flamme! So, of course she didn't understand most of the things Himmel did for her! She didn't because she doesn't know, even now, what he really meant to her. It's only now that she has started to understand her own feelings and Himmel's feelings. That is the tragedy of their story. Being an Elf of course has it's own place in the story, giving us that different sense of time an elf has in contrast to a human, but it is really a combination of factors that led to the tragic love story we see before us. And yes, Frieren was 100% in love with Himmel, she just never understood her own feelings at the time...

Himmel is HIM.

I think it's both epic and tragic in the same time 🤔

😭😭😭🤧