But it’s understandable.
They’re just children who am have just lost their only little sister. And the parents who were supposed to mourn and care for them brought in a random girl off the streets who happens to look like they’re dead sister. And then replaced her like nothing happened.
And on top of that they show special attention to Hari and get upset when the boys act out against the stranger forced into they’re home.
The thing is that it IS normal for emotionally unstable children to express themselves through acting out.
Not only are these children grieving and unstable, but they were just thrust into an entirely new environment and their parents aren’t acknowledging them positively and clearly like before.
They want their sister back but instead a complete stranger is forced into their intimate lives and they are just expected to change. It’s normal for them to retaliate in anyway they can. Kids are selfish.
Theyre still hella young, wdym they should have been intelligent enough? intelligence has nothing to do with it, its just the behavior of children. their brains havent fully developed and their sister just died. do you really expect a child to be as emotionally capable as an adult? You say that some sympathy wouldnt be bad and youre not wrong, but these are children who have never experienced the streets. They only know that their sister has died and this child is trying to take her place. You and I would probably act the same
Hari came from a different background though. She didn’t torment them back the first time because she was raised alone in the streets and if your grow up on the streets then you know better then to retaliate towards people who are obviously stronger.
Now that she’s traveled back in time however she isn’t being sympathetic towards the boys or trying to understand their perspective. Right now she is still mentally a 27 year old and she said it herself that the current situation is “cute”
She was bullied and has trauma no doubt, but she’s now an adult and she’s acting petty. The stuff where she had to sit next to the mom in the carriage and how she keeps repeating to wants to go back. Eugene is mad because he thinks, despite his parents obvious favoriteism of a stranger and how they ignore his blood siblings, the girl they adopted of the streets doesn’t even wanna be there.
I still don't understand in what way you find this understandable. She literally did nothing, she was just there how the heck can you justify their actions that even continued till she grew old? Their action were severe to the point it was about to turn to murder. What i acknowledge as normal behaviour is ignoring and not accepting as a sister that i understand but torturing her every day? Fucking abnormal and cruel.
bruv but they are children. if you want to get a child psychology degree and prove me wrong, go ham I guess. she did nothing wrong but that doesnt mean that they didnt view it that way. I'm not saying shes in the wrong, it's the parents who are in the wrong. idk where it talks about how it almost turned into murder, I'll have to reread that section I guess lol. I'm also not justifying their actions when they get old?? I'm saying that we're focused on their actions right now... when they're children uhh... theres no excuse to their behavior in the future when they are adults but please keep in mind that the MC went back in time and the boys are kids right now
Their actions aren't justified when they are children either. Like i said ignoring and not accepting her as their sister would be okay and understandable but abusing her every day just because she exists is beyond bad. Even now, in the new chapters the oldest one admits that their actions are not excusable, he realises that what he does is wrong but he's still doing it.
It isn’t something a kid raised under normal circumstances would do but we aren’t talking about “average” kids.
These behaviors ARE normal for a kid put under emotional stress and trauma. It’s normal BC of their parents and Hari’s actions have made them unstable.
I’m not saying this is Hari’s fault the first time around she really didn’t understand what was wrong and why her moving into the family like she did was upsetting.
But now, as a 27 year old back in time, she does know and she is actively making things worse.
Any child would act the same under the boys circumstances
I agree withat i never said they are the average. I just said that this sort of behaviour isn't understandable judging their circumstances. Avoidance is understandable not abuse. And no, she's not making things worse. She tries to win them over,not make them believe she is their dead sister like her "mom". She shows them that she's also a victim in the same circumstances instead of letting their destructive nature grow just like how she did in the past by not standing up for herself since she was a helpless kid. SHE is as helpless as they are, she grew with psychological and maybe physical abuse both from the parents that wanted to use her as replacement but from the brothers that definitely didn't make the situation any better, her living circumstances were so bad that she couldn't wait to get married and leave. Marriage was something like a ticket to her freedom from abuse, not a sign of love.

I get that what the parents did was not right, replacing a dead person but still the behaviour of these children is unacceptable. Blaming her for just existing, even tho she didn't nothing wrong is beyond ridiculous. I know they are children but still this type of cruelty is not excused, especially towards a person that they knew she used to have no family and living in the streets. Just a tad bit of sympathy wouldn't be bad.