She was a preschool teacher, so basically a glorified babysitter, and most people would probably not be okay with a child drinking poison. She literally knew Aine/ was in the world for 10 days when she made the decision, she didn’t grow up there. Also she read the story, so she was obviously biased from the beginning and didn’t want Aine to turn into a mass murderer.
Also if Aine is as methodical as we see, normal people wouldn’t see that he is anything but a cute little kid. She doesn’t really understand the Duke because he wasn’t really a main character in the novel so of course she’s scared of him.
She’s not stupid or anything, she’s just taking her time. She only been there for a few months...some people need time to adjust. If you magically dropped into a place and you saw a kid being borderline abused i don’t think you would say “well is a different era so it’s okay”. If so I don’t think you should be around children.
Exactly and most people don't get that point. Just because they saw the POV of the Duke and Ain makes these readers become 'know-it-all' coz seriously in real life when you're talking to someone do you know what they're thinking or what they're talking about when you're not around.
You may sometimes guess what the other person is thinking if you're a psychologist or maybe you are familiar to that person and the FL is not familiar to the Duke's household also she has a bad impression of them from the book plus when she meet the Duke he was dragging a dead body
Obviously I would be disoriented too.
So disoriented, in fact, that instead of wasting my time by trying to "save the villain of the story" by deviating from the plot, I'd try to understand my position and situation.
I'd take a book up and learn about my surroundings before even entertaining the idea of doing something too significant.
As a reader, I understand being biased, but there's a difference between fiction and reality and Id like to think I can normally spot the difference.
Plus, she's read the story, no?
She knows he's never had a normal childhood. He's already what, 10? And has been drinking poison and going under training to be heir to the dukedom for years. And she seriously expects him to be suddenly normal no questions asked. I'd like to blame naivety and ignorance, but we've both seen how the servants treated him and their reaction to his changes. And while naivety plays a big part in it... stupidity isn't completely free, either.
Of course abusing a child is horrible and will never be right- but you have to understand that sometimes, things are done for a reason, and if they still go against your morals after learning about them, then try changing them with the needs of those who imposed them in mind.
Also, I might have something against unnironical Mary Sue's.
PS: I don't necessarily like the Duke. I don't even like Ain, either.
I just happen to have something against unnironical Mary Sue's.
She’s not a Mary Sue tho, I think it’s more of a coping method. Maybe you could get your life completely thrown out the window and be all “hey let’s read a book”. She obviously has an attachment to children so she held onto Aine because that’s the one thing she knows how to do and she’s scared. She literally thought the duke would kill her at a moments notice.
She’s not wasting her time she’s been there less than a year, and children can handle A LOT of abuse before they snap. She thinks that this is the only way to save Aine, and he’s not showing her that he’s already twisted. Also it’s working cause Aine finally sees that there is love for him in the world, it’s working on the Duke too.
Who knows if she started to educate herself and focus on finding a way out the duke might have just killed her. I’m pretty sure you can’t leave an assassination family.
I don't hate her.
I'd like to think I'm not bad enough to hate a mentally disabled person.
But I'm just so ...... baffled??
At how stupid she is???
Like, she's EXACTLY like one of the kinds of teachers I wouldn't want my kids to have.
I don't believe she was a teacher. I just physically can't if she thought, for even just a second, that kids are these innocent angels who know no harm.
As a teacher, you're sometimes supposed to try to understand your student and why the behave some way sometimes. Instead she just automatically assumed wrongly, with absolutely no basis for it, and pinned the problem out on the parent, which admittedly, okAy- since parents are almost always the cause, but she didn't even try to figure out WHY it's important and a tradition.
Okay, I get it- she's from another era, so her values conflict heavily with those of the one she's currently in. But you can't just take them and self impose it upon someone from another era. I get you're a meet Sue, but there's gotta be a limit sOmewhere, right???