Second Life of a Trash Princess - Vol. 1 Ch. 4
- Thread starter MangaDex
- Start date
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2020
- Messages
- 596
Good for her.
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2023
- Messages
- 1,506
I usually see everyone get a hate boner for the emperor character in plotlines like this. Like "oh so now she's important to you? Well too late, blah blah blah, just accept that you fucked up and let her go blah blah blah" and so on.
Isn't it better for him to be filled with regret and want to repair their relationship?
It makes his angst and despair so much more delicious if he still has hope that he can fix things.
I want him to wallow in self pity. I want him to hate himself and fall into depression.
So it's really not good for me if he does the healthy thing and accepts that he messed up and gives her space.
Isn't it better for him to be filled with regret and want to repair their relationship?
It makes his angst and despair so much more delicious if he still has hope that he can fix things.
I want him to wallow in self pity. I want him to hate himself and fall into depression.
So it's really not good for me if he does the healthy thing and accepts that he messed up and gives her space.
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2018
- Messages
- 3,595
That was way to anti climactic for the father change in attitude towards the fmc. So this whole time he was just treating her as the scapegoat only to the degree where the moment she got enough of it that he will start trying to treat her as a daughter? That was actually very lame. I was expecting him to still be the shameless incompetent father and maybe raise his hand to her and only after that did he feel that he overstep his line. And that would be the seed of remorse that lead him to try fix the crooked family relationships. SEED not an instant change.
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2023
- Messages
- 1,148
Meh, all of these paths are realistic and I think generally none of them lead to instant change. In this case we can consider the dad as spoiled just as much as her brother, because due to his position nobody could lecture him on how he treats his daughter. Her addressing him and his actions directly and accepting that he basically cast her out of the family by no longer referring to him as her father worked like slapping him awake from the trash father he became.
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- May 28, 2019
- Messages
- 662
it literally took one conversation for him to realize he has been an emotionally abusive asshole to his daughter. I understand grieving but it's been over ten years. He had the time to learn on his own. He is an adult and a king whose actions are watched by everyone so you'd think he'd be more aware. But mostly,
I’m tired of this trope where emotionally abusive parents immediately want to heal the family once the child sets boundaries. It's not that I don't believe parents shouldn't be allowed to it's just, that in these stories there's no denial phase, just instant recognition, and attempts for forgiveness.
The child died in the original timeline or story. The parents never noticed/cared about them then, but now they come in with this new attitude and the parents seem to immediately jump to bargaining or over-doting, not to make them return to their past behavior, but to receive forgiveness. Like for years you must have been convinced the child deserved this treatment for a reason (a shit one always) but now at this moment you are just...
"Omg why would my daughter I treated poorly stop calling me father? She used to obey and do everything for my affection without question but now she won't anymore?! Was I....a bad parent?
"
You are about late 30-40-ish years old. Did your brain just develop cognitive empathy?
The brother was more realistic since he was testing the waters. Like he threw tantrums to bait her, then tried confrontation, to get her to act the way he was used and now he feels uncertain about where their relationship will go.
If the dad was going to admit he was in the wrong so quickly why was he so stupid in the first timeline?
I’m tired of this trope where emotionally abusive parents immediately want to heal the family once the child sets boundaries. It's not that I don't believe parents shouldn't be allowed to it's just, that in these stories there's no denial phase, just instant recognition, and attempts for forgiveness.
The child died in the original timeline or story. The parents never noticed/cared about them then, but now they come in with this new attitude and the parents seem to immediately jump to bargaining or over-doting, not to make them return to their past behavior, but to receive forgiveness. Like for years you must have been convinced the child deserved this treatment for a reason (a shit one always) but now at this moment you are just...
"Omg why would my daughter I treated poorly stop calling me father? She used to obey and do everything for my affection without question but now she won't anymore?! Was I....a bad parent?
"You are about late 30-40-ish years old. Did your brain just develop cognitive empathy?
The brother was more realistic since he was testing the waters. Like he threw tantrums to bait her, then tried confrontation, to get her to act the way he was used and now he feels uncertain about where their relationship will go.
If the dad was going to admit he was in the wrong so quickly why was he so stupid in the first timeline?
Last edited:
I don't normally comment until I catch up, but this needs to be said (the first part, the last bit is my own cathartic ranting)
She's not even being trashy, she's setting up boundaries and that's a good thing.
On the Father (read: Trash), "I lost something precious to me once again." oh, if she was sooooooo precious to you why have you treated her like a cancer for the past (I'm assuming) 8-ish years?
God I hate/love shitty parents in stories because it's so cathartic seeing their POV when the child finally stands up for themselves. I cut off my parents and all but one sibling 2 years ago and I can only hope they're feeling the same regret he is here. Should not been such trash to begin with and listened when we tried to talk to you like adults!
She's not even being trashy, she's setting up boundaries and that's a good thing.
On the Father (read: Trash), "I lost something precious to me once again." oh, if she was sooooooo precious to you why have you treated her like a cancer for the past (I'm assuming) 8-ish years?
God I hate/love shitty parents in stories because it's so cathartic seeing their POV when the child finally stands up for themselves. I cut off my parents and all but one sibling 2 years ago and I can only hope they're feeling the same regret he is here. Should not been such trash to begin with and listened when we tried to talk to you like adults!
