Agreed the wind spirit is childish however you forget that they're pretty much immortal and part of nature, if you had all eternity you wouldn't mind being with different people cus to them a "life time" for us is just moments to them.
And she's "only" 100 years old... mental she's probably like... 18
I agree that her harming the kids was very bad BUT....
You guys keep putting a lot of human emotion into these spirits.
The FL said it herself. The wind spirit is the first one she's met with so much human emotion in them.
The mother sent her, a 1 year old off to be an envoy. By human logic this is child endangerment.
The dad was going to just murder everyone cus they harmed the daughter.
Spirits are based off instinct and will kill or love based off instinct.
The wind spirit even admits to only wanting to tease the kids until her desires took over her rational brain.
No, I think this is more along the lines of blue and orange morality. The mother is shown to have some form of emotion for her 'husband', it's just different from human standards. It's like elves in fairy tales, the structure is totally different. Psychopaths and sociopaths are firmly in the realm of the human, I think.
Look up "blue-and-orange morality" on TVTropes. Human beings have a few different moral systems and theories, but they often have many similar points because humans as a species evolved in similar contexts. When another species, maybe aliens or fantasy creatures, have a totally different set of life experiences, they often have a moral system that is utterly strange from us and uses axes other than 'good and evil' or ' just and unjust' .
If you can't find it, here's a quote:
"a moral framework that is so utterly alien and foreign to human experience that we can't peg them as "good" or "evil". They aren't a Chaotic Neutral Unfettered, though they may seem to act terrifyingly randomly; nor are they necessarily a Lawful Neutral Fettered, because their understanding of "law" as a concept may not even be equivalent to ours. There might be a logic behind their actions, it's just that they operate with entirely different sets of values and premises from which to draw their conclusions. It's also worth noting that such cultures are just as likely to be something we'd find appalling as they are to be something we'd find benign and/or weird. They may also find us appalling, benign, or weird even if we don't see them that way, and although they are often likely to commit acts we would see as horrific, some are unusually benign. Either way they tend to act as if nothing were the matter. Because in their world/mind, that's just what they do. This trope is one of the trickier to pull off well, because Most Writers Are Human, and it's often hard to portray alien and truly foreign.
That is not to say these characters are amoral or devoid of any sense of right and wrong, mind you, but that their ideas of right and wrong can't really be understood using the aforementioned concepts. Conversely, they may have these concepts, but apply them in vastly different ways— such as regarding motionlessness as the epitome of evil, or viewing exploration as an element of chaos. In short, Blue and Orange Morality isn't just about what a character(s) view as right or wrong, it's also about how and why they judge them as such. "
The wind spirit girl really pissed me off. Also the way all the spirits are chill with pairing up with one another makes me sad for our MC. Clearly she has the human mindset of having one partner for her life, but all the other spirits don't seem to mind as long as they get along well enough.