Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-26397825-20170508131157

I agree with Vedran; you've built up this family who were so concerned with what she did and how she did it that they took every chance they could to set her up to fail and belittled her, then failed to follow through by making them be completely apathetic as to whether she stays or goes off to be a Huntress.

If you wanted an abusive family, then a consistent slave treatment would work better; making her a shutin who has so many chores during the day that she doesn't have time to do anything else. No actual physical abuse, simply always finding some chore that needs doing or some bit of the house that needs fixing up.

If you wanted an apathetic family, then it should be apathetic from the start. Tey give her the bare minimum of what she needs to survive, but don't offer any sort of actual interaction. The older sister can be a bully, as that's what children do, but the parents themselves would simply always put her off. So things like not caring if she comes home on time after school, not sitting with her when she's sick or reading bed time stories, not encouragng her at sports or helping with school work. That fits in better with the ending that you wrote.

In fact, it offers a bit of extra characterisation in the background - if she can see that they don't care and have never cared, then why should she tell them where she's going in the first place? She can simply run away to become what she wants.