Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160601181154/@comment-27447621-20160602043422

RayStrikeAbius wrote: @Hookshot: My next question would be why the hell Aurora doesn't take action sooner. "Peacekeeper" or not, if her brother is harassing her sister in such a manner, and she knows it, then any good sister would take it upon themselves to sort it out. Either by bringing attention to it, or if that doesn't work, taking matter into their own hands. And unless this brother is only a year younger, I'm not willing to believe that she couldn't whip him herself if she wanted to, because there has to be something that deters him from harassing the little one when she's around. Again, there's a line when you stop being "peaceful, kind, forgiving, and tolerant", and start being an overly-optimistic enabler. All right, here goes. I'm working with an incomplete model here, though, so some of these answers may be revised later.

Into the rabbithole, then.

OK, most parents don't want to see their kids as psychopaths; even in Remnant. She tried to take action, but what is she going to do? Both her parents came from broken families, and they'll fight tooth and nail to keep the family together, to the point that they're willing to shrug off bruises as 'roughhousing' and the mental torture as 'common brother-sister stuff'. Aurora tried to take steps that wouldn't break their family until the plot point that I hit a snag on and asked about. The way I have my story written now, Sage is about 7 when she runs a fever and her parents step in, forcing Aurora to leave Sage at the house. Aurora comes home to find Sage with a broken arm, so they run away to their grandparent's house (also in Mistral). Aurora is 13, and she pulls her sister out of that situation. She DOES take action, but it's the spurring moment I wanted to ask about