I completely agree with you. I was shocked when i came over from manta to read people’s opinions and there are a lot saying Rosetta was not wrong for what she said. Honestly, i’m pissed. I understand what she was trying to say, but I feel like it’s nothing Maxi didn’t know. We can see in the recent chapters she acknowledging her flaws and the fact that she might not ever be able to fully trust Riftan. She knows that and she hates that. She doesn’t need her sister reminding her of that in such a shitty way. It is heartbreaking that she was forced to watch her older sister be abused, that itself is definitely a form of abuse because their father was doing that with the intention of inflicting fear into Rosetta. But dare I say that doesn’t mean she understands Maxi nor does that validate what she was telling Maxi. Like, We can see Maxi wants to change but she is struggling. And here is Rosetta being negative, cold, and very discouraging. Good lord. Like you, i understand she’s struggling, and i hope things change for her for the better, but she doesn’t have to pull her sister down even further and keep her there. I was really hoping to hear words of encouraging in 156 from her. Not whatever that speech was.
I’m gonna be the black sheep here and say I hate Rosetta in this latest chapter specifically. As someone who also had an abusive father who was more emotionally/psychologically abusive towards me and more physically abusive towards my youngest sibling (so I speak from some experience, tho I’m fully aware everyone’s abuse can be wildly different experiences and don’t assume mine is “right” or “worse” than others), my sister for sure had it worse than me and no matter how much it impacted me psychologically, it impacted her both physically AND psychologically. I think Rosetta is speaking from a very closed off/selfish perspective where she is still not making a genuine effort to get to know Maxi, she’s just extrapolating from her own experience and applying her own logic from her lived experience. Mind you, I don’t hate Rosetta overall, she is struggling as well and has much trauma that she needs to work on (like Maxi did and does). But her atitude this particular chapter, in my own opinion, is not to protect Maxi but rather to try and make Maxi be more like her since this is how she thinks she’ll persevere.