Maybe because she didn’t have actual an actual family or parental figure so she just wants to be with Zion since she kinda sees him as family and doesn’t want to be left alone any to be seen as trust worthy or not useless... I think you forgot what she’s going through or well went through
I remember what she was going through I just think its been many years since then and him essentially keeping her isolated and dependent on him hasn't helped her mature much at all. I doubt he did this maliciously but she has basically been kept as his ambiguous foster child and dosn't seem to have any friends or connections outside of him. I sympathize with her suffering but she is still really immature and proved to be incompetent on a mission where she easily could have been killed. And I frankly blame the ML for that more then her since she's not at fault for asking but she clearly shouldn't have gone as she had 0 training, tact or instructions. This was a wonderful moment to have her develop some skills or accept that just because he's going away for a few weeks dosn't mean she can't have a fufilling life and maybe make some new friends or see that their relationship is strong enough that he will always come back.
IF she actually matures and grows in the series I'll come back and read it. I just do not like it at all when a FL who looks, acts and talks like a child is paired with their parental figure. I don't care how tortured or abused they were before. Its not a dynamic I like to read about and I'm not the only one to find that kind of relationship of much older man in charge of emotionally stunted girl to be problematic.
You worded that perfectly anon! I was trying to think of how to express my frustrations for a character who could have been great if written a bit better, and this was exactly that.
Yeah I don't mean to discount a character's trauma but it can be a difficult subject to handle and often is poorly done. A while ago there was Am I the Daughter?! and the FL in that was like super over the top abused. It was standard reincarnation where she suffered until 18 and became a kid again. but because she had two lifetimes of knowledge it was pretty tiring seeing her cry and act like a child for 30 chapters it just got really annoying that all she could do was be abused and act like a timid toddler. As a reader you eventually get tired of seeing the character be a useless abused potato.
A better example of the trope is the FL in My Three Tyrant Brothers. Since that is fluff piece centered around their family and her healing. She is also literally a child and the ML is also her age and went through similar circumstances. I think that will have good chances of the FL getting stronger and more competent. the arch mages daughter has a pretty similar structure to that as well and neither of those FLs are really criticized like this one is.
I just think its pretty popular trope to have a sad super abused FL who gets babied back to health right now and Ive read enough of them to be wary of the infinite abuse cycle ones.
Totally get you, the abused daughter trope is often over used, and executed horribly~
Its slightly understandable when the FL is a child, and has no power over her situation, but when she's 18+ and still sits around crying about every little thing that stresses her out, it just leaves a bad taste in the reader's mouth
Im dropping this for now. It has some interesting concepts but she is just too childish and whiny. Hopefully she gets better later but she really is acting like a kid demanding to go on her dad's business trip. im not sure how old she is but she DEFINETLY is not acting like the adult she says she is. She's not a bad kid tbh its just.... I know they are going to be pairing her with Zion and its just kinda creepy how childish she is and how hes a straight up caretaker for her. Also that was super irresponsible to take her on a mission like that when she is obviously not ready for it.