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I get the ppl saying Judith did nothing wrong but ngl I kinda disagree. Like smth can be understandable but not justifiable, meaning we can empathize with Judith and what led to her actions, but calling it justifiable or valid is a little much? Especially to Luca, the child who was abused and neglected. Just saying you can understand and analyze why someone did smth without glossing over the damage they inflicted on others. ( ̄∇ ̄")
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I couldn't agree more. The fact that she bawled her eyes out honestly says it all. Even she knows it was no excuse. Had it been excusable, she would have woken up feeling righteous, not an immense guilt that weighed her down so much she could do nothing but ball her eyes out.
I'm a mom myself and no matter what, I would never test my kid like that! I'm poor an pretty severely physically disabled and fled with my kid and the clothes on my back, from his biological sperm donor. So I may not have dealt with deaths as close as hers (although since, friends and my grandparents followed by my mom from cancer, passed away in that time. I still could NEVER treat my beloved baby (who's 14 now btw) anywhere near how she treated him. I know that I'm mom and biologically she's just aunt, but my baby's step dad isn't, and he not only stayed in my life (we were bffs before I left me ex and started dating s month later because we meet first and had secretly liked eachother for years but that point) but stepped up and became dad right away. My kids has been calling him dad the entire time, he started doing so without our pushing. We never looked back.
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i mean she admit that what she did was wrong. but again baby blues is a thing moreso Judith was not even her mother and with all that happening in her life, at very least she did raise Luca and didn't neglect him at all, she just can't provide the love Luca's need and given her situation it's kinda expected.
Also, i think people simplify human nature a bit too much nowadays, where everything only seen as black and white, while human and everything happens in this life is not just black and white, human made mistake doesn't mean you must either agree with their motives or take no excuse at all. It's kinda annoying whenever i see something just being labeled as Green or red flag.
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Tbh while I don't really like eclipse as a love interest, I feel bad for him. It honestly looks like he's stuck in kind of an abusive relationship. He was sold into slavery, and then Penelope come in and treats him with affection and purposefully tried to raise his affection towards her. Yes, I know she had her reason of not wanting to die, but still doesn't excuse the effect it had on Eclise. Then, as he's catching feelings, he begins to realize the huge gap in their status. And she needs him to survive, but doesn't notice how he can never contact her and has to wait an unknown amount of time for her to visit him. Yes, I know that Penelope has a lot going on in her life, but this probably was the turning point for him, and his affection turned into obsession.
Anyway, the point of this was not to blame Penelope, because her survival comes first, but to explain Eclise's feelings from my perspective a bit. Also, this isn't excusing any of Eclise's future action whatsoever.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. I've read from other comments that Eclis does some... not so great things as the plot continues, but I can't get over how bad I feel for him. His country is destroyed, his people are scattered and suffering, he is sold into slavery, and the one person who treats him with any semblance of kindness wants to use him as a tool by specifically manipulating his emotions so he'll love her. None of the other capture targets are in such shitty situations and also I'm pretty sure he's the youngest of the group? Like, I get where Penelope is coming from and her fears for her own life, but, good lord, give the boy a break.
This better not be a oneshot, it's too cute. ヽ(`Д´)ノ
Sadly it probably is based on how fast paced the story was (/TДT)/
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