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Your response was terrific. I honestly fully agree with you and would hope that it was all exactly as you wrote.
But.
If a person were to look at it differently,
I might be inclined to wonder if Lyriel might have preferred death if she were to be given the choice.
Terrible sounding? Yes.
Maybe she would have had the opportunity to go somewhere else and have some choices, who knows.
She was in a bad environment probably being pressured to be a whore and who knows what else. Slavery?
She then was falling to a certain death but rescued by our MC. In dreams, the MC even purchased her if I recall correctly but that could have been related to a different storyline.
Since then, however, she's been turned into a maid even though it might be argued that she 'chose' that out of necessity. I mean apparently none of the others were cleaning? Also it might be said that she's also being turned into a whore for the MC. As you said, I'm sure he 'cares' for her but since it mainly involves his slow but systematic raping of her, I'm not so sure. I don't think the story has given her a choice to not be a sexual object of the MC's.. So, with what seems like peer pressures from others, the MC, and other circumstances, it seems like she is being raised/forced to be in a sexual relationship with the MC and given no other choice. What is that called, Stockholm Syndrome? Could be a minor version of that if she comes to have feelings for the MC.
I can't say as I know how I'd feel in the same situation....
Other than really odd because I'd then be female and an Elf.... lol
Again, I honestly prefer your version and that's pretty much how I see it, like you, but nobody really knows what's going through her head... Personally I always tend to see the bright side and believe in the good side of folks. Yes I may get burned sometimes but oh well.... Just thought I'd check the flip side of the coin for a second.... lol
I don't mind if I'm wrong about all of this. Just musing
My initial thought before all this was.....dang they are spending way to much time on her and ignoring the others....lol
Cheers all
But.
If a person were to look at it differently,
I might be inclined to wonder if Lyriel might have preferred death if she were to be given the choice.
Terrible sounding? Yes.
Maybe she would have had the opportunity to go somewhere else and have some choices, who knows.
She was in a bad environment probably being pressured to be a whore and who knows what else. Slavery?
She then was falling to a certain death but rescued by our MC. In dreams, the MC even purchased her if I recall correctly but that could have been related to a different storyline.
Since then, however, she's been turned into a maid even though it might be argued that she 'chose' that out of necessity. I mean apparently none of the others were cleaning? Also it might be said that she's also being turned into a whore for the MC. As you said, I'm sure he 'cares' for her but since it mainly involves his slow but systematic raping of her, I'm not so sure. I don't think the story has given her a choice to not be a sexual object of the MC's.. So, with what seems like peer pressures from others, the MC, and other circumstances, it seems like she is being raised/forced to be in a sexual relationship with the MC and given no other choice. What is that called, Stockholm Syndrome? Could be a minor version of that if she comes to have feelings for the MC.
I can't say as I know how I'd feel in the same situation....
Other than really odd because I'd then be female and an Elf.... lol
Again, I honestly prefer your version and that's pretty much how I see it, like you, but nobody really knows what's going through her head... Personally I always tend to see the bright side and believe in the good side of folks. Yes I may get burned sometimes but oh well.... Just thought I'd check the flip side of the coin for a second.... lol
I don't mind if I'm wrong about all of this. Just musing
My initial thought before all this was.....dang they are spending way to much time on her and ignoring the others....lol
Cheers all