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With regards to Aria - on the off-hand chance that it does go that way, here's something that might make it a bit easier for you folks to swallow.
Simply put? As much as MC is taking care of Aria, she's also taking care of him. She's already slotted herself into the position of "House Mom", not only to care for her siblings, but also to ease the burden that MC has taken upon himself.
I've dropped the word a few times already, but I feel it bears repeating: Aria has been parentified. This is an actual thing in child psychology. Basically, what has happened is that Aria has been forced to take on tasks that are normally performed by adults rather than children. And in doing so, she has forced herself to mature (mentally) in order to see things through.
But the funny thing about this is that it also means that she'll also wind up having certain adult-like wishes. Such as a having someone to be her partner - not just in helping with the other children, but also as emotional support. And when you combine that with adolescent hormones.... Yeah. It'd be no surprise that it would go that route.
Now, to put this all into perspective.... You guys wouldn't be freaking out anywhere nearly as badly if she were eighteen or nineteen years old, right? (Hell, I'm sure some of you would be screaming "WIFE HER GODDAMMIT!" if that were the case.)
But the thing is that you're failing to realize just how far gone she really is.
Take the above example of her being a young adult instead? That's actually undercutting it by quite a lot. The reality is that, psychologically speaking, she's more like 25 years old. And that adult mind is packaged in an adolescent girl's body.
But that's the crux of the matter - that, for all intents and purposes, her mindset is that of an adult woman's. And being in that state of mind when a strong, capable, and dependable male figure sweeps into her life and starts giving her the support she has so desperately needed? It would only be natural that she would consider the MC as a prospective life-partner.
Granted, she might say she is his daughter right now, but that was a spur of the moment thing. She very likely sees him as "Daddy" from the perspective of being "Mommy".
Thing is, we (as a species) are kinda wired for this sort of thing. It's a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" fail-safe that's been baked into our genepool by natural selection over millions of years - that, in the event of some dire situation such as abandonment, orphaning, or even outright abuse, a child is very much capable of adapting and "growing up" faster than they normally would. They just need to have the basic knowledge to start out with, and they'll learn the rest by trial and error along the way... provided that there isn't too many errors, of course.
Simply put? As much as MC is taking care of Aria, she's also taking care of him. She's already slotted herself into the position of "House Mom", not only to care for her siblings, but also to ease the burden that MC has taken upon himself.
I've dropped the word a few times already, but I feel it bears repeating: Aria has been parentified. This is an actual thing in child psychology. Basically, what has happened is that Aria has been forced to take on tasks that are normally performed by adults rather than children. And in doing so, she has forced herself to mature (mentally) in order to see things through.
But the funny thing about this is that it also means that she'll also wind up having certain adult-like wishes. Such as a having someone to be her partner - not just in helping with the other children, but also as emotional support. And when you combine that with adolescent hormones.... Yeah. It'd be no surprise that it would go that route.
Now, to put this all into perspective.... You guys wouldn't be freaking out anywhere nearly as badly if she were eighteen or nineteen years old, right? (Hell, I'm sure some of you would be screaming "WIFE HER GODDAMMIT!" if that were the case.)
But the thing is that you're failing to realize just how far gone she really is.
Take the above example of her being a young adult instead? That's actually undercutting it by quite a lot. The reality is that, psychologically speaking, she's more like 25 years old. And that adult mind is packaged in an adolescent girl's body.
But that's the crux of the matter - that, for all intents and purposes, her mindset is that of an adult woman's. And being in that state of mind when a strong, capable, and dependable male figure sweeps into her life and starts giving her the support she has so desperately needed? It would only be natural that she would consider the MC as a prospective life-partner.
Granted, she might say she is his daughter right now, but that was a spur of the moment thing. She very likely sees him as "Daddy" from the perspective of being "Mommy".
Thing is, we (as a species) are kinda wired for this sort of thing. It's a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" fail-safe that's been baked into our genepool by natural selection over millions of years - that, in the event of some dire situation such as abandonment, orphaning, or even outright abuse, a child is very much capable of adapting and "growing up" faster than they normally would. They just need to have the basic knowledge to start out with, and they'll learn the rest by trial and error along the way... provided that there isn't too many errors, of course.
