Putting any amount of blame on Catherine at her young age is kind of fucked up. She SHOULD be punished, she understands she was harming someone, but she doesn’t understand WHY.
She does not have the full moral complexity to be judged as a full grown adult woman.
What FL SHOULD do is blame her best friend and husband, then punish Catherine as a child who has been taking out her bad feelings on another child. Not treat her like a full grown adult who maliciously hurt other people with full understanding of what she was doing and why.
She doesn’t even understand really that she feels inadequate and unloveable by her adoptive mother because her bio mother WANTED her to. She only understands that this other child is the ‘source’ of all her suffering. Doesn’t think about that child’s suffering because she’s been taught not to. Been taught to see her as the problem.
A lot of people are groomed like this and they don’t wake up, even though they are a really compassionate person, until they’re in their f*ing twenties. So expecting a fourteen-fifteen year old girl to have all she needs to make a fully informed decision on her own behavior is ridiculous, when she’s been convinced for a good few years that her mother would never love her if she found out.
Having to hide your identity, feeling like you have no one except the people who informed you that you had to hide your identity…
Like, she definitely needs to be taught a lesson, but it’s a child’s lesson, not an adult’s. The FL is just being cruel. This child, no matter how ‘evil’ she behaves, is manipulated and too young to understand anything yet, especially as her parents would’ve wanted to keep her cruel and petty to make sure the FL’s loving attentions would never work to win her back to her side.
They made the child this way, deliberately. It’s not her fault she doesn’t know better. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t hold some responsibility… but not as much as I suspect the FL is going to unleash on her.
FrailCritter
Putting any amount of blame on Catherine at her young age is kind of fucked up. She SHOULD be punished, she understands she was harming someone, but she doesn’t understand WHY.
She does not have the full moral complexity to be judged as a full grown adult woman.
What FL SHOULD do is blame her best friend and husband, then punish Catherine as a child who has been taking out her bad feelings on another child. Not treat her like a full grown adult who maliciously hurt other people with full understanding of what she was doing and why.
She doesn’t even understand really that she feels inadequate and unloveable by her adoptive mother because her bio mother WANTED her to. She only understands that this other child is the ‘source’ of all her suffering. Doesn’t think about that child’s suffering because she’s been taught not to. Been taught to see her as the problem.
A lot of people are groomed like this and they don’t wake up, even though they are a really compassionate person, until they’re in their f*ing twenties. So expecting a fourteen-fifteen year old girl to have all she needs to make a fully informed decision on her own behavior is ridiculous, when she’s been convinced for a good few years that her mother would never love her if she found out.
Having to hide your identity, feeling like you have no one except the people who informed you that you had to hide your identity…
Like, she definitely needs to be taught a lesson, but it’s a child’s lesson, not an adult’s. The FL is just being cruel. This child, no matter how ‘evil’ she behaves, is manipulated and too young to understand anything yet, especially as her parents would’ve wanted to keep her cruel and petty to make sure the FL’s loving attentions would never work to win her back to her side.
They made the child this way, deliberately. It’s not her fault she doesn’t know better. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t hold some responsibility… but not as much as I suspect the FL is going to unleash on her.
Sauyiro
And FL still haven’t told her father anything or to stop supporting them
Changemyname
This, she could literally have her father looking for her kid.
Sauyiro
I’ll be mad if the red hair mage threw her in the orphanage, because he knows is her daughter but didn’t told her
Lightning-Kun
I hope daughter won’t think bitch who beated her is loved by FL and then daugther who love her mother won’t do anything to bitch