I'm not afraid to say it, Penelope is entirely responsible for what Ecles has become.She m...

This was indeed all part of her scheme but she was wise . She did manipulate him and as you said made him psychologically dependent on her but she couldn't find any other alternative. Imagine, she was stuck in a game, knowing her death is slowly approaching. Being mistreated, neglected, misunderstood, wrongfully accused, All sort of shit happening to penny and the safest "option" was eclise. Ever since she stood in the game she never once considered any of the characters real people. Thats the point. not real people? easy for her to abandon them and avoid getting emotionally attached. The ml's were all "routes" and "options" for her ultimite escape. She was just fixated on one thing. Escape. She did overlook some abnormalities coming from eclise but whatt? Eclise was a slave. imagine the environment he grew up with, the ruthlessness, the attachment issues wtv. Penny did play a part but he was a crazy obsessive deceiving mf from the beg. He had ill intentions right from the beginning. and penny failed to notice that completely. Eclis really is cute but literally a wolf hiding under a sheep's mask girl

Okay yeah, I get what you're saying and I agree—Penny was trying to survive in an awful, twisted situation and saw everyone more like "obstacles" or "routes" than real people. That makes sense. But still, I think that’s exactly why it’s kind of messed up. Like, yeah, Eclise had deep-rooted issues from the start—he's not some innocent baby goat—but Penelope definitely enabled a lot of that behavior because she didn’t take him seriously as a person. And that’s the part that’s wild. She overlooked so many red flags just because she didn’t want to deal with them.

I’m not saying she’s a villain or anything, but I do think she underestimated how much damage her choices could cause—especially to someone like Eclise, who was already hanging on by a thread emotionally. She didn’t mean for it to go that far, sure. But impact > intent, y’know?

Yess i get what you mean and youre obv correct in that regard