Skin color aside, I’m really glad that she’s angry and disappointed. I was afraid that it was going to be those tropes where they would be forgiven instantaneously. Just listening to them talking to her made me feel nauseous. “All this time I’ve been afraid of you, but things have changed”, “I know I will be walking a difficult path trying to act like your mother but I wish to be by your side”, and the fact that she was sobbing because Claudia said she was too late to act like a mother??? Claudia has every right to be angry and upset and disappointed. Her parents had no reason whatsoever to be crying. They weren’t the ones who were wronged their whole lives, she was the one mistreated. She was the one who had parents be afraid of her, a child, simply because... she was being protected? By a spirit? And the fact that her mother even knew that Claudia was trying to save her little brother? Makes her so much worse?
“It’s only because I have been blessed by the light spirit that people, you, have changed your treatment of me.”
“That’s not true, you saved Sylphonse when he fell off the balcony!” When she was a child, yet you bring this up only after she mentions being blessed? And wait until now, after being blessed, to confess knowing that she saved her brother? And not years before?
There was no true apology for her mistreatment. Her apology was not genuine, as her whole word structure made it so she pitied herself. “It will be hard acting as your mother”, and then the so-called “I’m so sorry” and then bursting into tears? They’re apologizing not for Claudia’s sake. They’re apologizing to rid themselves of their guilt. They assumed she wanted them to be any part of her life anymore. She never asked for an apology, she never asked for her parents to be by her side. Claudia never asked for anything. Her mother just ‘apologized’ and assumed that Claudia even still wanted her in her life. “I know I’ve caused you so much pain and trauma, but I’ll make it up to you and apologize by staying by your side after you’ve been blessed by the light spirit king.”
I hope Claudia never forgives them.