As much as i hated eclise for doing all that he did, i think its time penelope learned that actions have consequences and its not just a "game" and "characters" but real people with real feelings. This was inevitable, penelope brewed her own recipe for disaster
I don't see how she created her own disaster.
If u were penelope, it'd be out of the realms of logic to think that Eclis, a slave u saved, would turn to a yandere and stab u in the back by bringing the real Yvonne.
Penelope knows that Eclis likes her by the % on their head. And she also tried her hardest to obv make it go to 100%. This clearly wasn't her fault....
I see Ur point abt the mc always thinking the characters are just characters and they'll always act in the way the novel is meant to be.
Altho I don't think Penelope is....that bad in terms of this, I've seen other manhwas where it's alog worse.
She just has no hope for her family. She hates Penelope's family and gave up on them long agoooo hence why she always disregards them as just characters even tho her family is changing, she doesn't plan on forgiving them.
And Eclis is....well deffo an outlier. but she never did anything bad to him.
In the sense that she went for Eclis who had a skyrocketing affection meter, yes, it's "her own doing" - but who wouldn't, in the situation she's in and with the literal deadline she has to do so? However - and even the novel confirms this -, this would've ALWAYS happened regardless of her actions when going for Eclis, as he is a yandere. Putting the blame on Penelope for who *he literally is* is a bit wild. Treating him differently would've in fact not changed the outcome as you seem to claim.
It is pure victim blaming saying she dug her own grave because of a person being crazy without her knowledge and now betraying her
Sure, Penelope is far from perfect and she is hyperfixated on the game mechanics/numbers, but drawing that parallel to say she's at fault for Eclis' behaviour is just illogical and extremely unsympathetic
To be fair, I think that is a valid point that the writer was trying to draw. Penelope acknowledged at one point that while these were all numbers and survival goals for her, she'd forgotten that this is actually the other characters's lives and feelings. Eclis was even the one who brought her to that realization. It's not her fault that Eclis is going kinda psycho, but she certainly contributed to the direction he went with her calculating behaviors that he picked up on.
Bruh its not even that serious, you throwing out random jargons like "victim blaming" in a fictional setting where the situations do not yield a oppressed minority, is weird as fuck. I liked the other replies bcz they have a right to disagree with my comment but you spiralling this into a societal term further confirms how less you think of actual victims in actual situations and you just love using big words which just make you look like a big buffoon
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