So that we can forgive the characters no matter how shitty they become because at the end of the day its not their fault. And also its usually an opportunity to show how fl is a better person by for giving them so easily.
But you do see how this takes literally any satisfaction out of a grovel, right? Seeing an asshole beg for forgiveness is only satisfying when he had the agency to be an asshole, not when he was puppeted into it.
Not to mention it feels victim blamey as fuck to even get mad at him at that point, doubly so when the author tries to have it both ways and go ‘no, the mind control was actually using his subconscious desires, so it’s actually HIS fault he got mind raped’.
Yeah like that one about being loved by an evil dragon comes to mind in the same vein. That shit was wild in general but especially considering mind control
Tbh the most insane thing about that story was that the ONE person out of the prince’s entourage who got away with a slap on the wrist was the aide, who was the one who actually killed the FL in the past life.
The reason he was punished far more lightly was because he was ‘just following the prince’s orders’.
Like what the fuck is this?
Yeah that was confusing as hell too like he wasn’t mind controlled and he murdered you and he gets unpaid labor. I guess it was a matter of feelings, because she never felt terrorized by him specifically but the others abused her so much even before the murders were carried out
Why do more than half of OI authors use mind control as a reason for the shit fiancés being shit?