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You said the best! I get that female leads, always are going to be the most forgiving and characters in general are going to be like heal and forgive rather than be vengeful and unforgiving. everyone made decisions for Camila without actually consulting her and think of her as her own person. I understand the times, but also they made her to live as a man, treat her as a man and let her make her own decisions. The fact that Camila is to do with her anger is proof enough that everybody has been emotionally manipulating her.
His love and devotion for her is... admirable in a way, but over all I think we can admit that he's a bit controlling and even a tad bit emotionally manipulative.
She wants nothing more than to see her mother, someone she was ripped away from for years and desperately misses, and seeing her again would give them both some level of peace of mind.... But he's telling her no because he's afraid of losing her love to the Prince? He really doesn't have faith in her love for him. And who is he to tell her no??? She's an adult who can make her own decisions, and you'd think that if he really cared for her that he'd not take away her autonomy like so many others have.
He has enough sense and self-awareness to acknowledge she's in a bad spot mentally and emotionally considering everything she's been through, but he's still selfish enough to completely disregard that because he doesn't want to let her go or fully acknowledge that he has a hand in her current state.
It's so weird. By basically forbidding her from going to Gaior, he proves that he doesn't have enough faith in their love to persist through a little rivalry (which she's already stated to have no romantic interest in)— but he DOES have enough faith to use it against her when it suits him, since he knows she won't do anything to make him unhappy.