Yeah the story has all the ingredients but fails because it’s essentially protecting the mc as a ‘rightful’ person who’s being wronged by those around her
I legitimately thought she did something egregious to her brother, like he opened up about abuse and she shut it down. The author has made his entire personality anger and hurt a mess that doesn’t make sense, because his older sister hasn’t actually done anything wrong
That exists in real life too but it feels just…incomplete here. And because this abuse is secondary to the main story which is our male lead and his obsessions, it feels like just a not so well thought out addition to add to the ‘problems’ around the female lead
Then again our male lead also feels incomplete in that sense. I love that this story is unique but the author doesn’t flesh it out well. It’s a bunch of blocky story points or character tropes
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."