To people calling FL weak

Gin-san's Parfait June 8, 2021 7:15 pm

She is weak.
But at the same time, she is strong.
She has been neglected since even before she was born, she has been taking care of her mother since she was small, alone.
Even to eat she had to beg for food for someone of lower status than her.

Imagine if you were neglected since you were a baby and live in poverty even though you were born as the most powrful man's child and lived in the same place as him. Now after years, you've grown up and your mother is still sick and the man claiming as your father has your mother's life in his hand, sent you to die in a foreign kingdom.

Even like that, she couldn't and wouldn't hurt someone else. She is hella strong already. She doesn't need to be good at swordsmanship or martial arts.

Responses
    Rei June 8, 2021 8:04 pm

    Right? Have to take into account her situation from when she was young, and now. Not every female lead needs to be outwardly strong physically and/or mentally. Because not every woman is like that, even in this day and age. Besides, this is still in the beginning and she can get even stronger in the future.

    NeetyNayd v 2.0 June 8, 2021 8:53 pm

    Preach!!! Emotional resilience is also a strength!!

    Readers are just way to used to FLs that are literally strong and knows about the plot because they are reincarnated or transmigrated, to some FLs extending to be a Mary Sue type...
    In either their hobbies, swordmanship, etc.

    Hattiert June 9, 2021 10:26 am

    I agree. If she were portrayed any differently she’d be a cliche. In real life a person who was raised with such physical and emotional abuse, who didn’t know when they’d eat again or even if they’d live to see another day…..would be traumatized beyond repair. On top of that she’s sent to die in a country filled with people who also hate her. She can’t even trust the children around her. The author is portraying fl realistically. I’m looking forward to her slowly gaining confidence in herself as well as gaining the respect of those around her as they see who she really is inside.

    By the way, I feel the ml is trying to help her become the dignified lady she was meant to be. That pompous ass tailor treated her exactly like those maids that made her beg for table scraps as a child. I don’t think the ml was saying she was being servile in caring about that jerk’s life, he meant that she was being servile in allowing him to speak to her with such disrespect. Anyway, I like this story and applaud the author for not turning the fl into some unrealistic cliche superhero.

    The sleepless wanderer June 9, 2021 10:35 am

    I totally agree! Being emotionally strong is harder than being physically strong

    maximusthefanboy June 9, 2021 4:30 pm

    Not a single mistaks in you words! Strength doesn't always mean physical but also mental and emotional!

    Nothing to see here June 11, 2021 2:58 am

    PERIIODDDDDDDDDDDD

    Hattiert June 11, 2021 3:54 am
    PERIIODDDDDDDDDDDD Nothing to see here

    And exclamation points !!!!!!!

    Shiella De Liona June 25, 2021 12:51 am

    Poetic bro.

    sailorcosmos1216 June 26, 2021 11:19 pm

    YESSSS, you say it hunny loud and clear! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧