I will literally defend this story with my whole chest. I know it's taking forever but having read the books the timeline just makes sense. This whole story up until this point is literally just the first half. Everything important actually starts happening following this trial. The real character development from all of the characters is coming very soon. The story is slow paced. It's not supposed to be fast. And seriously, I don't know what kind of development we're expecting from emotionally stunted orphans. Like every single time he listens to her and lets her do something reckless she almost dies. He spent his whole life, shutting everyone out, and the last person that made it into his heart before it hardened was her. I will admit that he is problematic and shuts her out too much, but I think this is a symptom that comes from the severe lack of communication from both ends. The problem isn't that he loves her too much, it's that he loves her more than she loves herself. I feel like at this stage in the story you can still see how much she dislikes herself and how much she's willing to risk just to be able to be proud of the person who stares back at her in the mirror. And it totally sucks overall, but unfortunately, she really does need to do her own thing in order for her to grow as a character and whether he likes it or not it is gonna happen. But obviously that's gonna create a lot of tension. Anyways the angst that follows this is legitimately agonizing, but the end result of this story is phenomenal. OK please bear with me.
I will literally defend this story with my whole chest. I know it's taking forever but having read the books the timeline just makes sense. This whole story up until this point is literally just the first half. Everything important actually starts happening following this trial. The real character development from all of the characters is coming very soon. The story is slow paced. It's not supposed to be fast. And seriously, I don't know what kind of development we're expecting from emotionally stunted orphans.
Like every single time he listens to her and lets her do something reckless she almost dies. He spent his whole life, shutting everyone out, and the last person that made it into his heart before it hardened was her. I will admit that he is problematic and shuts her out too much, but I think this is a symptom that comes from the severe lack of communication from both ends. The problem isn't that he loves her too much, it's that he loves her more than she loves herself. I feel like at this stage in the story you can still see how much she dislikes herself and how much she's willing to risk just to be able to be proud of the person who stares back at her in the mirror. And it totally sucks overall, but unfortunately, she really does need to do her own thing in order for her to grow as a character and whether he likes it or not it is gonna happen. But obviously that's gonna create a lot of tension. Anyways the angst that follows this is legitimately agonizing, but the end result of this story is phenomenal. OK please bear with me.