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Idk, I never liked how she painted Derrick (I mean yeah he sometimes was dumb because of his "jumping to conclusions" type of shit but), especially when she found out about his feelings (does it mean his feelings are romantic and not brotherly, I never actually understood well what does it mean "not so pure feelings" so I assume it's romantic, yes?) And I mean, not even in real life can a person choose who to have feelings for or not, that's why there's many dumb people out there with the wrong (other) dumb people, but for her to make it seem like "omg he likes Penelope in a romantic way, he's the worse of the worse" like he killed a child in the streets lol, so dramatic XD, firstly.. he has ALWAYS known she wasn't his sister (biologically), and they were all young children when they met, and people are different (that's why he and the younger brother developed different feelings), so for me it's not creepy or "omg he's the worse of the worse" (-_-), it would've been creepy if even if she wasn't biologically their real sister, they still had thought she was and then found out she wasn't their sister when they grew up and he had already had grew up developing feelings for her I mean thinking she's really his real sister even if she wasn't, I mean that's really creepy, or if she actually was the real sister, then even worse, that would've been absolutely disgusting, but just because she was registered with the family name and named her their sister? I'm pretty sure he wasn't like "ok I'm gonna choose to develop feelings for her" -_- give me a break, please -_- it's not the end of the world to develop feelings for someone who YOU KNOW and have ALWAYS been aware they're not biologically anything to you, it's natural for a man and woman to feel attraction (wether be the man for the woman or the woman for the man), yeah yeah, their father told them "she's your new sister so treat her as such" but that doesn't automatically make her their biologically sister, and doesn't automatically mean they can automatically accept she's a real biological sister, for fucks sake -_-
I don't think it's about being biologically connected or not. You see, Derick never treated her better. I understand Derick for not acknowledging her as a family, but if he loves her, shouldn't he at least treat her a little kindly? Even if he just leave her alone and not say hurtful words may make her feel better, but that's not the case. When she wanted out, he even tried to force her to come back. Yes, even as a reader, I won't feel favorable about Derick. It's normal to develop feelings. Hell, yeah, it is. He is even a character the system chose that could end up with her, thus the favorability rating above his head. But that's not the point. Unlike Reynold, Derick failed to be a decent human being to Penelope. I hope you understand.
Sure, I also think he behaved dumb when treating her most of the time, he was also VERY narrow minded because of the previous Penelope's behaviour, (even though that Penelope was also a victim of everyone), but none of his treatments was such a grave sin to deserve the title of being "the worse of the worse" lol, plus I think he couldn't treat her kindly enough most of the time because he thought his feelings were inappropriate and treating her harshly and not right was his way to suppress his feelings (dumb move I know but it's actually a common behaviour when someone doesn't like the feelings they feel for someone but they can't help but feel them), but still, he wasn't the worse of them, and also by the end he was under the villain's mind control, but she from time to time would say things like "oh if you love your sister so much go and keep cuddling with her" lol like girl he was LITERALLY under mind control XD (that's why he was taking that demon's side blindly) and he was even in a state of confusion, questioning everything that was going on around him and didn't know what was actually happening and why, like trying to fight it even from within him but couldn't move on his own free will and she knew he was being controlled and that that thing was a demon and not even the real sister (but she says that? Ew), but anyway I guess I should also try and understand her character and say she's just human like Derrick and the others and so she's not perfect
I actually think this too. That, Penelope, despite always wanting to raise affection scores, always dismissed pretty easily the characters and acted very cold, even when they finally tried to make amends to her. At some point, I thought she gave up on everyone and didn't understand which main lead she planned to score affection with. I don't blame her because of all she endured, she had to harden her heart, but it looked like she was always trying to hurt the main leads, maybe out of spite or revenge. Even when she was blaming Winter again and again for bringing back Ivonne when it was only supposed to happen in the future. Or Derrick who was clearly brainwashed, or Eckles who she manipulated and was brainwashed too. When Reynold tried to show her affection she often reminded him of when he hurt her. It looks like she had a really hard time letting go of her pain and her past
Exactly! I couldn't think of a best way to put it, she was too resentful and spiteful, it's cool a couple times (because they needed to hear it since she was hurting), but when it's ALL THE TIME, OVER AND OVER, it becomes annoying eventually -_-
Ok, NOW is when the real interesting stuff starts, I was getting anxious, too slow updates to me XD