This is exactly what I love about her. She has ACTUAL trauma/PTSD responses. But the thing is, her attitude isn’t even JUST because of his actions alone. It was literally everyone around her. Even her own uncle the man who murdered her father was family. Someone they trusted. Then she was sent off to a completely different territory, where she was treated with hostility from day one. For seven consecutive years, she was harassed, scrutinized, criticized, looked down on, and, in general, subjected to insane levels of emotional and psychological strain.
Like, it’s not even just the things HE did that left her psychologically scarred. She was ALL ALONE and suffering. She didn’t have a single ally, or anyone to confide in or lean on. And after enduring all of that, she ultimately died in one of the worst, slowest, and most painful ways imaginable.
Every time a new chapter comes out I get kinda irritated when she is suspicious of all his actions and always assumes the worst, but then I remember she suffered a lifetime of abuse by him so of course she's not going to trust him just like that.
I wish there were more flashbacks to her previous life and what she suffered, then it would be a bit easier to understand her motivation, I think