[Coldsaturn]

I'm still trying to find a proper boundary between the Deep Sea, the Sea God and Raf. Because in a way, they are one and the same, but they also feel at times separate and in conflict with each other.

Post-Ceremony Raf made an ethical choice. Lemuria survives on a moral foundation that he can't accept, hence he wants to find another way to save his people (and himself). I don't know, can you still be selfish when you lose your life along everyone else's? Saving MC always comes at the cost of his own life, after all. So is it a matter of choosing one life over many?

The other Rafs might not know the real implications of Lemuria's flame. In GoT MC dreams of Abysswalker, and in her dream he kills her to take back his heart. Romirro/Lemuria was about to fall into oblivion because he was refusing to kill her. And we don't know what's going on in the present; there are some worrying foreshadowings on one side, and on the other we might be finally in the timeline where MC will intervene and find a solution with him.

"Rafayel keeps slipping out from under what ought be an imperative compulsion. how?"
Dare I say it? With the power of true love <3