It was not an abuse, more like discipline. Greyson poisoned Koi that’s why he was locked in the basement to reflect for what he did. Simply scolding Greyson won’t work. Koi did it before and it did not work. After Greyson tried to poison Koi he tried to make another kid kill his own baby brother. So Ashley has to punish him for that to make know that it wasn’t right. Ashley brought Greyson to every Doctors, Hospitals and experts but no one can make Greyson feel emotions much more feel them and that’s when Ashley realized that he has to teach not just Greyson but his whole children how to imitate emotions and read them because most of them can’t feel nor understand emotions.
It's called subconscious trauma, yes he might not know the stuff he went through were abuse in the name of discipline whatever the case might be that was still lowkey abuse that Ashley made Grayson went through even if Grayson realises it or not.
Like literally strangling a 9yo kid to death almost fine? That is a major trauma for most children but Grayson doesn't realise doesn't mean his body is fit to take more abuse also?
Whatever the case might have been of Grayson he didn't deserve to go through that stuff
No gng, I know what I'm talking about I agree with all of the things you've said. I've read the novel too, but that wasn't just "discipline", locking up a child born with a disability is a form of abuse, it don't matter what he did when he was a child. Even Dane acknowledged how messed up it was. Genuinely, Ashley could have "disciplined" him better and be more patient with him like how Dane was, but he used a method that wouldn't help his condition, Grayson can't even properly reflect on his actions in there bc Ashley never taught him better. Also, the doctor was no help at all, Grayson does feel emotions but he expresses it through his ears, only Dane was patient enough to notice. You're telling me locking up a child with no food in a dark room/cabinet/area is not abuse?
So are you going to defend what Greyson did then? What if Ashley wasn’t home and Koi end up dead would you still be saying the same thing then? What if the parents of the child who Greyson told to kill his own baby brother ended up dead will you still be saying the same thing then?
You are all hypocrites, you are so short sighted that you are literally excusing attempted murder committed by a child.
In the country where I live every circumstances in which a parent had murdered or inflict injuries to their own child out of emotional blockage due to the shock brought by the circumstances of the child actions is always taken to consideration.
Emotions are cruel thing, it can make even the most rational man to be irrational and even rob them their sanity temporarily when blinded by extreme emotions. That’s why when a crime is committed out of emotions every angle that revolves around it are being considered to court.
Do you read what you're saying? You can't excuse whatever trauma Grayson had for doing shit, but you excuse Chase for all the abuse he did bc of his past trauma? Mind you Chase's trauma is only directed towards dogs, but he was a complete asshole to people. He was a mad dog even way before his trauma too, even the only sibling he gets along with acknowledged how rude Chase was.
You make it sound like Chase is an angel, have you forgotten how he pushed Henry of the helicopter? Shot bodyguards who did nothing wrong, and almost killed Joshua? If it weren't for Joshua's stubborness and strength, Chase wouldn't even acknowledge him even a little. Hell, he wouldn't even save a child from getting chased by a dog if it weren't the fact that it was Joshua's son.
Mind you Chase is born normally, was not born with any disability. But he acts more of an asshole than Grayson who was born with a disability. That's not shown much bc of Joshua's one-sided pov. Chase never even gotten any better even in the side stories.
I'm not gonna spoil you much, but Grayson is by far a better person than Chase, even a better lover. Grayson is literally a man who knows consent and bounderies.
I don't understand?
Okay a Child does something like add Cleaning agent into food because he was curious whether his mother can smell or taste? So he did? What was the thing yes it's had but ur saying a 9yo kid devoid of emotions and only satisfying his curiosity was at wrong here?
Whatever as a Parent I could never harm my children even after whatever they do, I come from a place where children are placed at the highest priority in life and I have grew up with it Nothin comes before or after a child.
So strangling ur own child is literally called trash parent, whatever the reason might be it's trash behaviour af. Okay tell me also weren't Nathaniel and Stella there too they also simply stood not caring about Koi.
See here I ain't excusing his actions but remember he is a 9yo kid? Do u think a 9yo kid can think for themselves well and be independent no they are freaking kid. So try to look it into a child's view instead of a 3rd person pov.
Whatever Ashley made Grayson go through was still bad and trash, there were a lot of different ways he could have tried but nah Ashley has no time to look after his disgusting Alpha children and only spoil and concentrate on his Omega child Bliss.
Ashley could have given him to the police since he committed an attempted murder not once but twice. What if Koi ended up would you still be saying that? If those two people ended up dead that will be a murder. Greyson could have ended in a Juvie but Ashley didn’t do it.
Also what can you expect from Ashley when that was the kind of discipline he got from his father and much worse than what he gave to his children. Also mind you, lenient parenting doesn’t work with psychopaths. That’s the reason why many psychopaths ended up killing q lot of people is because of that gentle parenting you hypocrites are so obsessed about. Don’t pretend that those two didn’t try it. Before the incident they were trying that gentle parenting for years and yet still their own children tried to hurt their own sibling and tried to kill the own birth father.
Yk you are literally justifying an adult wrong actions and blaming a child wrong actions. And he didn't poisoned Koi to kill him. It was the parents who didn't explained anything to them and Grayson was always a curious child. Ashley was always extra cautious about Koi's condition that's wht made him curious so he wanted to check if koi actually can't taste.
No matters what the parents are to be blamed for the children sufferings. Ashley suffered cs of his parents and he made his children suffer too
Just months ago this year, an 8 year old raped and killed a 3 year old. This is real life. Now you tell me where does innocence end? When should we stop using as being a kid an excuse to a crime? Last year a 7 year old together with a 10 year old gang raped a 6 year old girl. A 14 year old stabbed 7 children of age of 8 in a school. That’s the reality.
Yess u gave me examples, let's tell something what made this children have this idea and do those stuff?
It's their environment and their parents that's what led for them to do those stuff?
Every crime committed there is an example of bad parenting.
A child born is pure as Clay and what shapes the clay is the hands(parents) if they couldn't shape them well it's their fault not the child's fault.
The children might have been innocent but they grew up in such disgusting environment and bad parents who never taught them what's wrong and right u can't expect the children to do the rght thing?
But in case of Greyson he was taught what’s wrong and right. If you read all Zig’s novel you’ll know it. Prior to the incident Koi keeps telling them what’s wrong and right and even after the incident he keeps repeating evem though they seemed not listening.
Now I’m asking you if somehow Koi ended up dead then that would have turned to homicide, will you still defend Greyson’s actions then? A crime is still a crime even when it was done out of curiosity.
Have you ever heard the crime committed by a 14 years old out of curiosity and butchered an 8 year old girl just because she’s curious. That 14 years old was at the top of her class. Both parents are Doctors. Can you still use environment as an excuse when she’s well loved by both parents. When she’s celebrated at school for being top of her class?
What's up with you directly resulting to ad hominem? That's quite childish. I know where you're getting at but have you ever thought of what you're saying right about now? I wasn't even trying to defend Grayson, I'm defending a fck ass child, which you're obviously apathetic about. Also why are you excusing Ashley's deranged parenting bc that's what he went through when he was a kid, if he was such a good father, he would know better than not to have made Grayson's actions become worse than it already was. Also that's freaking 9 yr old trying to answer his curiosity WITHOUT knowing the consequences of his actions are, Koi is an adult, he knows what his child is like but he remains to be dumb and accepts whatever Grayson gives him, despite the constant warning Ashley gives him. They could've warned Grayson in the first place what the dos and donts were but no they didn't, they did that way too late. The siblings were there, especially Nathaniel but they did not do shit, so why are you blaming everything to Grayson when everyone in the family was in the fcking wrong, but that environment was also made bc of the bad parenting. Also I'd like to point out a loophole in your argument, Ashley's form of discipline does not help a kid like Grayson, someone born with disability. Also, I never even said that they should be lenient, why are you adding words to my statement? All I ever said was to give Grayson more attention than they already gave him, honestly putting a child immediately in juvenile is inhumane and usually won't work when a child clearly doesn't know what he's doing, most of the time he does things to satisfy his curiosity but not hurt people, but he can't exactly comprehend what actions would lead to "hurt", or what hurt even was in the first place. Him locking Grayson up was a useless method of discipline, it obviously didn't help someone like Grayson.
But that’s how the law works, if an incident as such were to occur statements as to how the incident happens were given and if it so happen that it came to the acknowledgement of the authorities juvie is probably a place where a child can temporarily be a place they put to for evaluation. And if it escalated to homicide and murder then they will stay there till they are of age for a trial. It may sound harsh but that’s how the law works. There’s no such thing as exemptions to the law. If a child is too young they are placed under the social Welfare until they are old enough for trials. It defends how the trial goes but most of the kids goes to Juvie for reformation so they could go back to the society unless the case is as graved as murder and homicide where they will stay there till they are off legal age to get trialed for the crime they committed.
No one is fcking defending Grayson's actions, he was born as a child with special needs, get your mind straight. If that happened it would simply be called an ACCIDENT, why? Because that's CHILD did not know better BECAUSE of his parents which are obviously bad at parenting but somehow you keep on defending their parenting skills. If there's someone trying to defend characters here that would only be you. Genuinely if what you said have happened then Grayson would definitely feel guilty and be so confused about what he just did, because he doesn't know simple concepts of right and wrong. Obviously it would scar him for life because Ashley wouldn't leave him be, Grayson is not entirely heartless and that's literally shown in his novel through Dane. That's also even implied in Bliss' novel. His brain finds it hard to comprehend emotions but his body unknowingly expresses it.
If that happens, he will be given to the social welfare, probably will stay there till he’s old enough to be put to Juvie and when he reached legal age he will be trialed for the crime he committed. That’s the reality should it escalated to homicide. And not
what you just said because that’s how serious it is. That’s the reality of it should it got escalated to it. But since he has mental disability then they probably will put him in a mental institution.
I love Greyson as much as you guys do, but you don’t know the depth of what he did.
In the country where I live there’s this one part of our law that kind of exempt a spouse or a parent for killing or inflicting serious injuries to their spouse or children. Only if such elements are present. The one element that is really important is that the perpetrator has to be in that moment under a greay deal of emotional shock to even think for a second. Totally blocked out of emotions to even rationalize what they are doing.
When I asked my professor in our law subject as to why such exemption was made under our law constitution? He simply answered, though it is not right but under such circumstances where a spouse or even a parent put in a tremendous shock it can actually kill them emotionally and rationally. Making their logic dead. To which the law acknowledges. That’s why if all the elements are present then such crime is not punishable by law.
I’m not defending Ashley but he was under a great shock, his anger made him unable to think and rationalized things which made him strangle Greyson. Such actions and emotions are being acknowledged by law because that’s what makes a human a human.
Greyson on the other hand out of curiosity planned it out. I love Greyson don’t get me wrong but if we put the law here what you said will never happen. Greyson will be apprehended and put in a social welfare should it escalated to homicide then further action will be placed. That’s how it works in real life.

Oh nah wtf? I thought this son of a bitch was gonna save the kid. What the fuck did he go through. You can never make me like Grayson