I kinda want to have my piece here and saying for mc, no matter if the ml was brainsmwashed or not, her trauma would still considering him as her abuser; thus makes us, as reader who see her point of view considering him as one too.
At least this one is good because the brainwash in previous life is 100 percents thorought and yet u can still see the consequences of those on both of them now. Usually a lot of authors whos using this trope skip it and just straight up only writing the consequenses for the fl and punishment on ml.
I mean yeah but if we look at the fl perspective, she doesn't know that he was brainwashed so it is valid why she acted like that
True but honestly we looked at tr FL perspective instead of the ML once again not taking his side, we didn't know how he was feeling or thinking despite being a puppet to Beatrice. you can be under brainwash but you inner self is still trying to fight and get out of the brainwash
But if his brainwashed doesn't that mean his like a lifeless dog under control of a spell? sorry say this but why is he the abuser when it's not exactly his fault? are people being blinded by not reading the story correctly or? like I said if he wasn't brainwashed then yeah I would agree with half of y'all calling him a abuser but at the end of the day he was just a doll being a controlled by Beatrice. I ain't taking his side but we need to look around the fact that it isn't his fault, common sense new gen.