The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior - Vol. 3 Ch. 12.5

[AnthemaGate]

This is just my interpretation, but at least according to this manga's translated chapters, the Queen's precognitions are always that 'Pryde would grow up to be a cruel and horrid' and not that 'Pryde would grow up to be a cruel and horrid queen'. I think that it is worth noting this because when you think of it like that then Queen Rosa's treatment of Pryde, whilst not good, at least seem thought out.

Working with the assumption that Rosa only knows that Pryde will be horrible in the future, there is some logic to specifically isolating herself from Pryde. Pryde as the eldest daughter is under normal circumstances first in line to the throne. We know as readers that it was Rosa and Albert's fates to die making Pryde Queen. However, from Queen Rosa's perspective whilst Pryde becoming terrible is a fact, Pryde becoming the next Queen is not set in stone. As such the plan (as stated in chapter 5) was to try to set in motion the idea that Tiara would actually become heir to the throne and not Pryde. Raising Tiara with love, whilst isolating Pryde in order show who was favoured to be the next queen. That way even when Pryde ends up as a bad person, the harm to the kingdom is limited since Tiara would be the next queen.

Now obviously this is a flawed plan, as shown by the plot of the otome game. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Queen is a bad mother, for two reasons. First of all, as the Queen she had to make the decision between the happiness of her daughter and the future of her kingdom and she chose her kingdom. But this isn't the kind of decision any normal parent would ever have to make and frankly she handled it in the tamest way possible. If she really didn't care, she could have done so many worse things to Pryde to secure the kingdom's future. She could have just had Pryde killed because she was a major threat to the Kingdoms future. And second of all, it's clear that she loves Pryde. She knows that she treats Pryde without love and it saddens her greatly. And in chapter 5 when she sees for the first time that her precognitions (which have never been wrong before) may have for the first time ever changed she instantly starts feel regret for her actions and laments what could have been.

Now I'm not going to say that Rosa is a great mother, because the way she isolated Pryde wasn't right and Rosa is fully aware of it. However, when compared to so many terrible mothers you see in manga (and in IRL to be honest), at the very least that fact that Rosa at no point was happy about what she was doing, and that she instantly regrets it says to me that Queen Rosa isn't a bad mother either. She cares and loves her daughter, but had to do what was best for her kingdom.

In my interpretation, everything the queen put Pryde through was completely unreasonable. There are obviously things the queen can control when she gets a vision, such as who gets the throne and thus avoiding the future she sees. With this in mind, that means it was perfectly possible to correct Pryde's behavior, she simply gave up because of her fear which is what makes her a horrible mother to Pryde and why I personally dislike her a lot.

How a person develops is based on two key psychological terms: nature and nurture. By abandoning and neglecting Pryde in the way she did, even if she felt bad about it, she was essentially insinuating that her own child was naturally a cruel and evil person. As you said, in the game her plan obviously did not pan out and that is likely a result of her neglect. Unlike Pryde whose powers of precignition comes from memory of the game rather than a specialist ability, the queen's precognition is likely to tied to destiny or fate. It is also highly likely that the reason the queen wasn't able to change the future WAS because she gave up on Pryde, thus actually progressing the vision rather than deviating from it.

Had the queen had even a hint of actual forethought, she would realize the psychological toll neglecting Pryde would produce and how that would influence her as a person. The original Pryde had what was essentially strangers to guide her who were not allowed to go against a princess's orders, not a mother (or clearly not a father) that was regularly around to guide her and teach her morals.

 

[dkuro]

I think Pryde becoming cruel and horrible no matter what queen Rosa do may be because no matter what she does she and her husband would have died the day Pryde awoke her power.
So young orphan girl becoming queen too young seems quite a recipe for "success"

 

[Kaldrak]

I think OG Pryde has all the hallmarks of a sociopath/psychopath. No one orders a child their own age to kill their mother for amusement if they have any kind of functioning empathy. If her mother had stuck around in the original timeline it's quite possible nothing would've changed except we probably would've gotten a more manipulative, secretive OG Pryde. Or she possibly would've just killed her mother if she decided she was getting in her way.

She was written as a monster in human skin, and would've stayed that way one way or another. This is not a case of someone being shaped by their environment into being cruel. She was cruel from the moment she realized she had power over others. I bet there's a bunch of dissected, tortured animals buried around the palace grounds, and possible small children who went missing that the mom has no idea about.