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no i completely agree, instead of hiding away the mother's heritage they should've educated her on it. and i still haven't gotten over how her father basically abused her, i don't like how the story just glossed over that?
I know people are gonna argue with me but why the heck did they not notice their daughter was unhappy and do something before she was falling into delusions and kidnapping people? Her parents dropped the ball here. They could've:
(1) limited her exposure to other people until she was like 10 or something so they could limit the amount of hate she received. Educated her about her heritage and about the empire's view of their people before she was probably blindsided.
(2) Show her the dark plains at least once so she has good memories of the place. It's not impossible apparently since her mother can travel around and goes there to help.
(3) Also why the hell would you lock your daughter in a dark closet and forcefully unlock her abilities when she hates her identity so badly she's harming herself and trying to kill herself? She's clearly not well. This probably would've been way past the time to seek major help.
Especially #3! You're telling me someone as vocal as they were showing her to be did not show signs of unhappiness before she was throwing herself down the stairs or stabbing herself (I'm assuming. There was a knife image when they talk about self harm I think.)
Clearly, these parents were severely negligent. How do you miss this? Like not all people when depressed show it outwardly or are always sad/unhappy but Lyna was clearly showing it by being angry/lashing out. There must have been something.
Not saying Lyna is not responsible for her actions or that her depression/mental health is an excuse. Nope, not at all. But I don't consider her Dad at the very least to be a good person either (as of ch 79). Mom's kind of on thin ice since she didn't notice anything either until she needed to leave.