Hi Lucio just dropping in to say I know this last chapter made a lot of people hate you more but they don’t get the fact that you were genuinely upset by the way your parents treated you? And bring denied positive reinforcement and proper learning from a mother who didn’t really allow you to have a parental bond w them doesn’t make you bad? That’s mentally abusive and developmentally horrible psychologically fucks you up. Plus it just hurts. You would’ve made a good king if not for this :

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People hate me more because of this?

(I’m actually pretty torn. In the context of his people, Morga was completely fair in being hard on him. He was her heir, and he’d barely seen the heat of battle due to her protection. He was immature and unwise, definitely not ready to lead his people just because he came of age.

That said, it’s now a lot easier to understand why Lucio is the way he is. His people valued nothing but strength, glory, and violence. His father had never been proud of him despite being a freeloader himself, and his mother, from what we’ve seen, apparently scared him to the point where he’d flee if she so much as twitched in her sleep.

He had no voice, no control. He was stagnating, strangled.

This is not the Count Lucio we know, and this is not the Prince Montag that he wanted to become. So, he changed his fate. I honestly can’t blame him for that.

Let me reiterate, since I’m not an abuse apologist: it was the context of his culture for high expectations and negative reinforcement to be given to the heir of the people.

It was not the context of his culture, I’m guessing, to bully your children to the point where to claim what they’ve been told their whole life should have been theirs (and was only hindered by parental disappointment that was the direct result of emotional neglect and a bad upbringing) they feel they have no choice but to act irrationally.

By no means does his past excuse the bad things he’s done, or who he became. But with understanding comes hope for not only acceptance and forgiveness, but positive change)