I think it’s a lot of compounding reasons. He’s confused and super disoriented from his memory loss, he’s not 100% sure he can trust anyone, he lives a shitty life with lister tormenting him and punishing anyone he gets close to, he doesn’t want to get his hopes up with the ML, etc.
Perfect example of victim blaming through negative framing and harmful assumptions right off the bat. I swear y’all could just not read when you’re insensitive and trying to mask it as curiosity, you’re not fucking slick.
The story, the author, the writer of this fiction has not given him a reason for pushing the ML away.
He's not real. I cannot victim blame him because he is not real. He is not a victim. There is no victim here. It's not real. It's all fictional. This is all completely made up. It's fictional writing.
In this fictional writing no reason has been given for the way the MC is acting.
I'm asking if anybody picked up on a reason that I might have missed.
You are doing too much. Get a life. Learn to differentiate between fiction and reality.
That's logical, and I think that's probably what everyone's thinking but it hasn't been clearly defined in the story. At least it hasn't as far as I can tell. Have you noticed any clear motivations in the story for the MC pulling away like he is?
I haven't seen any evidence that he doesn't trust the ML. It does seem like there's times where he is worried the ML may be doing something violent on his behalf and he does seem very adverse to violence, but even in his own thoughts he never told himself that's the reason for his recent actions.
A lot in this story isn't clearly defined and I'm enjoying learning about the MC's past at the same time he does. The ambiguous nature of the plot is really well done and intriguing.
I feel like you can have an ambiguous plot and past but you still need clear well-defined character motivations and I don't understand the MC's character motivations as they're not well defined within the story. I can make up motivations based on my own experience and what I know about psychology, but the author just hasn't made them clear in the story IMO
I think it’s pretty obvious, but that might just be me. I don’t mean any offense when I say this, but expecting a speech/thought bubble where the main character is like ‘I think this because of that and thus I will conduct this specific action’ seems a little elementary. A lot of these aspects are heavily implied and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to extrapolate his thoughts based on his situation.
And it also kind of defeats the purpose of this story. We don’t get clearly defined motivations because the MC doesn’t know them either. Again, he has had severe memory loss and is only now starting to remember a little bit of his past. Up until recently, he thought there was no hope for him and he was just going to be a slave for the rest of his life. We’re navigating his life purely through *his* lenses, so obviously we’d be just as confused as he is.
I don't understand why the MC is self-sabotaging so hard. What is his reason?
I'm not trying to fault him, so don't just come defend him blindly. I genuinely do not understand his logic for doing it. He knows what's going to happen to him if he doesn't get help but he refuses to get help and I don't know why.