I'm sorry, I just don't understand why it was necessary to handle this plot point so clumsily. Our male lead is a serial killer, we can handle the protagonist being a bad older sister.
It makes no sense for him to want to stay with his aunt, if he clearly saw her hit his sister. It is completely unnecessary to make him so cruel to her and so unforgiving.
I don't need him to be a perfect victim, but the author is clearly framing this in a way, that makes the brother's resentment nonsensical.
I promise we would've been able to handle it, if she left her brother behind without a second thought. I promise we would've been able to handle it, if she hit him for something less hurtful.
It's so fucking weird, because there's all the ingredients to a morally and emotionally complicated story??? Like if I was writing this, the obvious take would be that the brother resents his sister for the neglect that facilitated the sexual abuse. But if he never wanted to be around her in the first place, then he's just pissy because she hit him once when they were kids. It doesn't make the protagonist kinder, it makes her duller.
"My sister, who I loved and relied on, was too busy studying ((to make a better life for us)), not knowing I needed her then to protect me and I resent her because her independence cost me my childhood."
is just better than
"My bitch ass demon sister hit me one time, so now I want nothing to do with her and I'd rather stay with my abusive aunt. I wish she died with our parents."
I'm sorry, I just don't understand why it was necessary to handle this plot point so clumsily. Our male lead is a serial killer, we can handle the protagonist being a bad older sister.
It makes no sense for him to want to stay with his aunt, if he clearly saw her hit his sister. It is completely unnecessary to make him so cruel to her and so unforgiving.
I don't need him to be a perfect victim, but the author is clearly framing this in a way, that makes the brother's resentment nonsensical.
I promise we would've been able to handle it, if she left her brother behind without a second thought.
I promise we would've been able to handle it, if she hit him for something less hurtful.
It's so fucking weird, because there's all the ingredients to a morally and emotionally complicated story??? Like if I was writing this, the obvious take would be that the brother resents his sister for the neglect that facilitated the sexual abuse. But if he never wanted to be around her in the first place, then he's just pissy because she hit him once when they were kids. It doesn't make the protagonist kinder, it makes her duller.
"My sister, who I loved and relied on, was too busy studying ((to make a better life for us)), not knowing I needed her then to protect me and I resent her because her independence cost me my childhood."
is just better than
"My bitch ass demon sister hit me one time, so now I want nothing to do with her and I'd rather stay with my abusive aunt. I wish she died with our parents."