-stem from the fact that, while real now, she WAS originally the main character for a “lower status girl is actually a princess” type novel, which are typically power-fantasies for their demographic. she doesn’t have much of a personality outside of being kind and naive and curious and loved by everyone because those are the characters that someone can easily self-insert into. from what i remember, in the OG timeline before athy, jen got athy killed over a misunderstanding, and then GOT MARRIED without too much grief. things happen AROUND and TO her, she reacts to things, she feels things, but she doesn’t actually make those things happen. her purpose was to be a vessel the audience could project onto, but she’s lost her purpose and ultimately feels like a useless character who is kind to the point of being unrealistic, naive to the point of indirectly causing problems for others, curious but not driven enough to actually act on it, and loved by everyone without actually doing much to earn it. she plays out like a self-insert OC, but instead of magically fixing people’s problems, she’s (unknowingly) kind of the direct reason why things are getting worse.
-stem from the fact that, while real now, she WAS originally the main character for a “lower status girl is actually a princess” type novel, which are typically power-fantasies for their demographic. she doesn’t have much of a personality outside of being kind and naive and curious and loved by everyone because those are the characters that someone can easily self-insert into. from what i remember, in the OG timeline before athy, jen got athy killed over a misunderstanding, and then GOT MARRIED without too much grief. things happen AROUND and TO her, she reacts to things, she feels things, but she doesn’t actually make those things happen. her purpose was to be a vessel the audience could project onto, but she’s lost her purpose and ultimately feels like a useless character who is kind to the point of being unrealistic, naive to the point of indirectly causing problems for others, curious but not driven enough to actually act on it, and loved by everyone without actually doing much to earn it. she plays out like a self-insert OC, but instead of magically fixing people’s problems, she’s (unknowingly) kind of the direct reason why things are getting worse.