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@Kutabarie: I mean, said as much? About their truly awful behavior not supporting the theory, I mean. There's sometimes some weird toxic twisted "tough love" plots that show up in manga, though.
The meat of the theory was more that first hiding her existence from the clergy, and then dropping her in the forest is possibly actually hugely beneficial to her (in avoiding capture by the clergy). And that there's no obvious reason to have hidden her under the bed when they were promoting her sister to the guards in the beginning. And that "you're not worthy of being a Miko's sister" is complete gibberish—certainly not any reasonable reason to dump her in the forest.
Which leaves two semi-reasonable options for their strange behaviour (notwithstanding the option that her parents are just badly written and bat-shit crazy, which is, to be fair, quite likely): Either there's an as-yet-unexplained reason that it's extremely problematic for the (fake) Miko to have a (perceived-to-be) underachieving twin sister, or her parents knew she was the miko and felt the need to keep her away from the clergy.
Honestly, re-reading it, it's really unlikely. I guess I just liked the idea a lot more than "their parents happened to be complete crazy-folk who commit horrible and fundamentally inexplicable acts so the audience can feel pity." Which is what it seems like on the face of it.
The meat of the theory was more that first hiding her existence from the clergy, and then dropping her in the forest is possibly actually hugely beneficial to her (in avoiding capture by the clergy). And that there's no obvious reason to have hidden her under the bed when they were promoting her sister to the guards in the beginning. And that "you're not worthy of being a Miko's sister" is complete gibberish—certainly not any reasonable reason to dump her in the forest.
Which leaves two semi-reasonable options for their strange behaviour (notwithstanding the option that her parents are just badly written and bat-shit crazy, which is, to be fair, quite likely): Either there's an as-yet-unexplained reason that it's extremely problematic for the (fake) Miko to have a (perceived-to-be) underachieving twin sister, or her parents knew she was the miko and felt the need to keep her away from the clergy.
Honestly, re-reading it, it's really unlikely. I guess I just liked the idea a lot more than "their parents happened to be complete crazy-folk who commit horrible and fundamentally inexplicable acts so the audience can feel pity." Which is what it seems like on the face of it.