I wrote "killed" for a reason 🙄
You sure sounded like you didn't meant it, cause it was clear she wasn't in real danger, she could defeat Rufus with her pinky if she wanted only reason they got hit is because they were distracted .
More like a viper or a tapeworm.
Not same negative connotations as the b word
See, this is the kind of mentality that causes people to excuse heinous shit done "because boys will be boys" or similar.
You can sympathize with someone while not hating them and still wanting them to suffer consequences for their actions, cause you can understand why they're like that, and the "boys will be boys" bullshit has completely unrelated context and don't need to have heinous shit involved.
It doesn't matter that her mother is abusive, she still continued the cycle of being abusive herself, rather than breaking free of it.
Breaking how exactly? She's a literal child, her entire life is directly connected to her mother, if she doesn't obey her mother will just hit her more, are you really expecting a defenseless child to have the mental fortitude to take a beating for choosing to do the right thing?
Or what, you expect her to run away and live in the streets?
And before anyone tries to say anything about that- it happens all the time, people choosing to not be the same kind of person their parents were, especially abusive ones. That she didn't choose to, and chose to follow the same path as her mother (in other words, using her mother as a role model rather than a negative role model) is entirely on her. She is responsible for her own interpretations and actions derived therefrom, just as her mother, bitch that she is, is responsible for her interpretations and actions derived therefrom, such as holding her daughter's companion hostage, as well as the slap and denigration we saw here in this chapter.
Actually, as a 12 year old, a literal child, that sure as fucking hell don't happen at all, children are 99.9% of the time terrified of their abusive parents, they absolutely won't choose to be a different person, at best they'll try ask help from an adult, get ignored, and just give up, she literally has no choice.
Also, responsibility? Are you kidding? Who the fuck expects literal children to have their own interpretations and actions? The entire point for children to not being alloweed to do many stuff, with many of them being even a crime if an adult helps them, is exactly because they're
not capable of making informed choices like an adult.
I'll remind again, she's 12, she's not like 16 or 17 like the rest of the characters, it's already normal for teenagers to do stupid choices, to expect better from a child is just plain insanity, much less an abused child who absolutely would never go against their parents.
It's not a zero-sum situation where you can only choose one or the other, and attempting to reduce people's opinions to that so you can imply they're bad people for hating one instead of the other is shitty of you.
You absolutely can and should choose one or the other, shitty is acting as if children have a choice, because they rarely have, they're literally powerless for the most part, at best they can maybe try get help from another adult or run away when they're in an abusive household.