It might just me me, but ion think the backstory was meant to justify his behavior but to offer context to why he did what he did. It's a classic story about poor people dying and sacrificing to keep the rich happy and ignorant while taking the blood shed to keep them there for granted. The author is attempting to give him depth but isn't doing a good enough job getting the message across so no one actually cares which is very unfortunate:(
I love hearing about this type of perspective though just wish the characters had more actual substance to em
I totally agree! This back story isn’t supposed to make us like him or justify his actions, but understand his thought process. It’s about a child who fell in love with the image of a pretty girl in order to cope with his stressful/traumatic life. Then the child grew up, and was made to face reality after creating all these expectations. Now he has nothing to hold on to. Bye bye coping mechanism.
Rather than the author doing a bad job of it, I think there’s just a lot of readers on this site who are refusing to understand (kinda just like ML, lol) because they can’t separate themselves from FL’s suffering
Yes. Exactly
just fucking how does his brain works? take responsibility my foot, why jump into assumptions when you barely knew anything about the girl. this bitch makes me hate him even more. his backstory is useless and doesn’t justify his goddamn action. he’s a one piece of shit