@LaDeeDah
I understand your view on how this seems to be a story for victims of abuse and making the MC morally grey would only provide a demeaning message to actual abuse victims, yet I'm just reading this for entertainment, not to find a theme for the story or find some overarching lesson. And how they are portraying her, this story doesn't feel that entertaining in which I only feel pity for the main character;in fact, her characterization just seems so bland and one-dimensional. Something I think is similar to this would be Contract princess and Monster Duchess or something like that, that also portrays abuse yet it is still able to be entertaining, especially since it's a little girl, it's so cute and she has personality. For Ebony, she's a traumatized grown woman however, she has lived a lot longer than the little child in Contract Princess and Monster Duches and has much more life experience, she should have much more defining traits than just a traumatized woman. Man that was long.