Someone posted some cute (but nsfw so i cant post here) Marcielle/Falin yuri and someone asked what they were from, and I looked it up because I forgor the names and learned in that exact moment that Frieren was NOT the same character.
My friend was watching frierien and talking about it, and i started talking like how she's inevitably going to be lesbian and my friend was confused. that was like three weeks ago and just TODAY i had to clarify "actually i was talking about marcielle lmao"
i mean yeah but it's the same driving internal thing imo. it's expressed very differently, but angst over experiencing the passage of time so differently from shorter lived races is central to both their characters