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ChishioKunrin wrote: They're probably gonna give her a "Cinderella who was never saved by a Fairy Godmother" type story or something. Stuck in an abusive home until she found her own way out, terrified of being vulnerable enough to be trapped as a victim again, so she seeks power, not satisfied with merely standing up for herself, but rather desiring to be so feared that no one will dare try to make her a victim ever again. Or something.

Hey, it'd kinda make sense when you look at her behavior in Volume 4. She was weakened, and Watts and Tyrian kept antagonizing her. She felt vulnerable and pathetic, and it freaked her out and pissed her off. Could be why she has such a hatred for Ruby - the girl who reduced her to once again being weak and helpless. The problem with that theory, at least in a pure pathological sense, is that victims of abuse don't normally react that way. It's a common misconception that abuse breeds abusive people, when in reality it actually doesn't. Generally, the only time that people react violently to abuse is when they're pathologically damaged to begin with. In other words, it takes an inherently evil/mentally ill person to react to violence with violence.

But, then again, Miles and Kerry aren't psychiatrists and so it wouldn't surprise me to see them implement something as unrealistic as that into their story.