I think your missing the fact that she was also a child when she found them, which is stated multiple times, and one of them is actually older than her. They are all adults at this point and need to start taking accountability for their own actions and working through their shit. Also, I think it's made very clear throughout the series that she's not supposed to be some squeaky clean, virtuous heroine. She's a mage who very clearly was treated as something other than human her entire life, I don't expect her to be anything other than how she's portrayed but she's a least worked on herself enough to care about not harming other people for selfish reasons. Unlike Oliven.
Nah, she found oliven when she was an adult and he was still a kid and what s worse? She hide her face and identity from them. For people who lost all their family, only have one person who they can mentally rely on and suddenly that person vanished, would they broke? They tried to reach out to her but she neglected them, she even tried to hide cause she didnt want to drag them in? Then just hide everything from the start, why asked them to help her experimenting when she know that power was harmful? Even she knows she couldnt do anything on her own. Look at Claude and Ethan, they only knew FML for a short time but if she leaves will they broke? Ofc they do, even worse. Though oliven deserved it when he choose to harm people with dark magic but it doesnt change the fact that FML is a trash master
There's literally a scene where the ML says there's only a 10yr age gap AT MOST. She was a teenager when she found Oliven, what are you talking about? The timeline wouldn't even make sense if she was an adult when she found him. And AGAIN, they are adults now, the accountability for his actions is on him. I never said she wasn't wrong for doing what she did, I said I didn't expect anything else from the fact that she was a) also still a child when she picked them up and b) from the glimpses that we got of her childhood, she obviously was not ever treated as a human. It's made very obvious from the beginning that apart from her best friend's child (who she has such attachment to because her best friend is the only person who did treat her as human growing up and because she feels guilty cause she believes her prophecy and writing it as a book are what made it happen), she does not really know how to give love and care to other people, and with how it's written, I think the only reason she knows to give love and care to her best friend's kid was because his exact feelings were written out in her prophetic book, because she was explicitly told how he felt and what caused him to be that way. Also, she never looked at or viewed her apprentices as her children and I doubt she ever treated them that way. Don't get me wrong, I do still think she did not handle it the greatest, but I wasn't expecting different and Oliven needs to take accountability for his crap and I'm tried of seeing comment after comment trying to absolve this grown ass man of his shit because "oh, he had a shitty childhood and has clearly had no emotional development," like ok, is he still a child? No? Then literally he needs to figure it out and work through that shit himself.
Even if Oliver is a “grown ass mass” he lived majority of his life in the magic tower where they are known to be escentric and lack morals. Even though she was a teenager, she raised him when he was a child. That’s why she was so fond of him. So, it was her responsibility to teach him morals and do basic shit a guardian would do. Even if she doesn’t view herself as his parent, she was his guardian and only person who took care of him after his parents death. She never properly explained to him what he did was wrong or the repercussions nor to value human life. She assumed he knew and forbid him from being near her. MC is just an awful guardian and master who starves her disciples of affection. Oliver was still wrong for his actions but she played a major role in his character flaws. Oliver actions is reflection of her friend’s child if he reached adulthood without her intervention. MC kept her disciples at arms length knowing that they craved her affection and thought this was the best for them. But instead it turned into a shit show and made her disciple the villain. She literally is has similar parental flaws as the duke for her disciples.
P.S. Even though her body was a teenager, she mentally was older because she was living two lifetimes.
I don't expect a child taking care of a child to be able to properly teach anyone anything, especially when they themselves were never properly raised. In regard to your other comment, she's only lived one life, she goes back and forth between the two worlds but the two separate characters are still the same age, its not like she had one full life and then the other, she's literally just had two separate bodies with the same amount of experience
completely agreed with the first comment and everyone else saying shes a trash master ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I think u forget that she lives two lives. She stated it herself in the beginning, she is far older than anybody around her
Even as a child shes older than them bcs she lives two lives as an adult
She was mature enough to not be an irresponsible parent figure
I honestly agree with your perspective. She has no obligation to fully take care of 3 adults (one of which has the emotional intelligence of a child) while also being the tower master. She took them in solely for their ability as mages, if she took them in with the goal to raise them as her children just because they all had traumatic pasts then at that point she would’ve had not 3 disciples but at least a number in the double digits considering that since most characters in this story have traumatic childhoods (e.g. the maid, the duke, etc.). As shown in the manga the three disciples formed close bonds with each other giving us reason to believe that she as their mentor gave them enough guidance to be able to form emotional bonds with other human beings (something she did not have to do in order to aid them in their journey as MAGES). It is not her responsibility to control the actions of ADULTS who carelessly endanger civilians just to look for her. Mind you, her actions in leaving them so abruptly with no explanation was wrong on her part but that does not give sufficient reason to call her a “horrible” master.
Honestly I feel she is a terrible master and even though she doesn’t see it she is their parent if they are orphaned and you raised them since they were children they are your responsibility even as an adult she took no accountability for having raised them a certain way and not correcting certain behaviors then abandoning them cause of the Nobel feeling bad for another kid when she should take responsibility for the ones she raised plus showing that the duke and Claude are more important is a crappy thing to do it shows how little she cares for anyone else but her own selfishness. She should’ve owned up to her own behavior honestly dropping this it was disappointing.