Both of them got me barking, one family has no business hoarding that many good looking genes
Honestly my problem(maybe setback?) With stories like these is how flat the 'evil family' is. Like it doeNt make any sense to treat her that badly and differently since she was born. Humans are more complex than that. My parents were abusive AF but it wasn't all bad all the time. Even evil people have depth, butt these characters only exist to cause trauma to the mc and it's such a overused trope. And honestly it took her SEVEN lives to get to this point???
Adding: specifically flat character and insane abuse don't make for good complex story telling, despite the fact real monster exist in the real world. My creative writer professor also said just because it really happened, doesn't mean it's going to make a good story. An example of dark but depth and complex is the famous game of throne series and show
I always think of them as unreliable narrators, which means the story is told from their view and so bad deeds are amplified and good ones embellished. Your also getting only the bad events, because those are the only ones relevant to the over all story. We don’t seen the between plot points things of like... their walk alone in the garden and the nice deed from the gardener, or like the restart point in her life where the MC was at a tea party with her siblings which might have been going relatively well aside from the beast incident.
Thanks just my take and how I justify the flat characters and squid narrative.
*skewed narrative.. not squid narrative..
100 percent agree on this
Maybe it does takes more than a lifetime to get an epiphany.
There are victims who will never see the truth about their abuser in their one only life.
There are people in the real world who are just downright cruel, inhumane, sadistic abusive and very evil because of their own self-hate and misery.
So rather than admitting their flaws, problems and doing self-reflection they rather take it out on other to the point where they forget why they keep mistreating others below them.
There are fathers, brothers and sisters who are just toxic and misogynistic due to patriarchal ideology.
People are complex but they also can be very simple stupid lowlifes.
I recently watched a documentary about a young gay Muslim who fled Lebanon because of his homosexuality.
He went through a lot to get residency in Germany like getting assaulted or raped by other refugees.
The worst thing that happened to him is that his own aunt in Germany tricked him. She called him, he visited her home, pretended to understand him and gave him the feeling of security. In the next morning she, his uncle and cousine suddenly insulted him as shameful faggot, beat him almost to death and tortured him for weeks until he managed to free himself.
Afterwards he wanted to sue them but he later dropped the lawsuit despite having strong support by sympathetic allies because he didn't really have the strenght and wanted to finally let go + move on...
This report makes me think that it doesn't matter how complex human beings are, the moment they do such atrocities, they reduced themselves to inhumane scum without any compassion left that are defined by their truly unforgiving acts.
They never atoned for what they did to this poor young man.
It is just not right to give those monsters any sentimantal excuses...
It isn't that far-fetched that the father, brother and step-sister are just truly bad people without that much hidden depth.
Recommend this video essay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGUyjZpd8Q
Heathers: High School is a Black Comedy
Sorry, if sharing this story and using this brutal example to express my argument was too much.
Victims being (natural common) unreliable narrators doesn't sit me right.
Or, OR, it's just simply poor writing.
I understand that just irredeemable people exist, however, 'theyre evil just because they are evil' is not an interesting story to me
Fair point.
But even if the father and brother were given more complex backstories, it wouldn't change the fact that all the horrible things they commited towards the MC.
The foolish disgusting father hates the daughter because she is unwanted is overused but actually quite common.
I read the current inofficial translated chapters of the novel and these assholes are not evil for the sake of evil. They are just the perfect worst embodiment of vanity, superficiality, toxic masculinity, patriarchy, greed, illogical hate and apathy.
They are not that cartoonish flat.
I see Hilise as a real life Asian daughter for being mistreated by her hypocritical parents/family just being a unwanted daughter or because doesn't fit their impossible high standards/outdated ideology.
Why is she in prison? Did I just skip over that?
It says in chapter 0 at the end the brother said she went in for him
Thank you, I read the ch 0 awhile ago so I forgot (=・ω・=)
I'd be put in a good mood too if a sexy af man was holding my hand like that whew
Sorry but how long is this part of the plot gonna drag on
ALL ABOARD THE SALLY HATE TRAIN; WERE TAKING OFF (╬￣皿￣)凸
HERE WE GOOOO (╬￣皿￣)凸
I'll bring the snacks (╬￣皿￣)凸
The art is insane, I want to be capable of doing something like it
Honestly, he's so toxic. I love it.
this had me wheezing omfg mood
yes we love a guy who have a few screw loose and a lil bit possessive with a pinch of being a yandere ╮(￣▽￣)╭