Honestly, I appreciate the complex relationship/misunderstanding between her and her mother. I feel like it's a very realistic example of abusive family dynamics. How we view our parents when we are children and how we view them as adults can be drastically different depending on the circumstances.
Especially since as children our perception of people is often directly tied to our physical and emotional needs. Harlow's baby monkey experiment is a great example of this. When given the option, adolescent monkeys choose a soft, comfortable mother over one that is cold and hard but provides sustenance (food & water).
I think we see a similar dynamic between the MC and her parents. Her father, though evil provided her with the emotional comfort and care we look for as children. Whereas her mother, who we now know was the only one who truly cared for the MC's well-being, wasn't nearly as emotionally available. Thus resulting in the MC's skewed perception of their relationships.
Essentially,
The father controls his wife and child, by purposely tainting the relationship between them.
He controls his wife by:
-> Restricting her privileges to see her child
-------->resulting in an emotional gap/distance in the relationship as well as room for misunderstandings and a warped perception to occur
-> Holding the child's physical well-being as blackmail
--------> This keeps the wife in check and prevents her from acting out against him
He controls his child by:
->Restricting her privileges to see her mother
-------->resulting in the child feeling like they've been abandoned and aren't loved.
->Love bombing and Controlling her perception of reality
--------> An abandoned child will seek additional love and comfort and therefore be more trusting towards their benefactor. The father takes advantage of this and manipulates the MC into blindly doing what he and the prince ask.
->Groom/brainwash/question their other relationships
--------> To maintain control, the abuser will also make the child question every relationship outside of 'their parent-child relationship.' This prevents the child from going against their benefactor because they are raised to believe only their benefactor truly cares for them
We see this in real life quite often with narcissistic parents and those who use their children as ways to control and f over their partners. A good example is people who fight to have custody over their children, despite not actually liking or wanting their kids.
This is so well-explained and written that is resonated so hard with me. Such dynamics really do deserve to be taught at school so children wouldn't suffer too late when they grow up.
Ok I'm just going to put this out there
In shounen and action stories:
No romance > Poorly written romance/harems
PLEASE! I AM BEGGING. DON'T MAKE HER AN ANNOYING FOLLOWER
embarrassing.... just plain embarrassing dude
(I skipped a good portion of her dialogue this chapter because seriously? even villains don't monologue that long the fact that she had a 1 sided conversation that long was just sad...like girl.... he's not listening. you look stupid now and you are going to look worse later )
She isn't a villain, just the current antagonist. The reason they are making her monolog so much is so we can be empathetic to her later on (I probably won't still)
She's clearly not the villain, they HAVE personalities It was a reference to the fact that in many sources of media, the villain will have an especially long monologue (which the irony is the fact that she isn't, she's a small supporting character and therefore should not have so many lines). The last page was the only one that included a flashback/back story. She literally spent 4 to 5 pages just insulting the MC/talking obnoxiously to herself and by page like 9/10 he finally responded to her.
The reason they have her talking so much isn't to make the readers feel empathetic but it's to highlight her inferiority complex and extremely low self-esteem. She's a jerk to the MC because she's projecting her insecurities onto him because she does not have an established/stable spot within the household and the only one with a more unstable spot is him (as he's shunned by everyone). But the MC has been able to make headway and slowly accumulate respect unlike her who is at a standstill. So the person who is supposed to be permanently at the bottom of the household and who should never been able to pass her is now somehow threatening her position. She thinks if she can beat the MC and squash those 'below her' it will help solidify her spot and confirm her worth/abilities, because if she isn't talented her value is therefore zero and she will be considered useless (and therefore can't complete her goals).
Also, the whole tragic backstory to redeem the character's crappy personality is BS because not only is some random quick minor flashback poor writing, we all know she's only getting enough of redemption to lead to her being a shitty romance choice who follows him around in the future (probably as a tsundere because it's the easiest cop-out). I'm praying there won't be romance, but authors always manage to sneak them in
That's the classmate he's running into first... out of ALL the options. HIM
Like I understand the reasoning, but damn.... Winter just wants to be loved
His script better be good, because imagine being ugly AND having a rotten personality
Bora is too funny
She's praying jiwoo becomes hers instead â•®(￣▽￣)â•
I literally grabbed my pillow and screamed into it. wtf. That was one of the THE MOST BRUTAL ways to break up with someone
yea, like why did he fuck him if he would break up with him anyway, wtf :(