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Anonymous Coward Β· 1mo

I really love reading your htwmho posts & analysis,so i was curious of how you view Freya like her actions towards ruby and how she was in chapter 107 .

I've talked about Freya a few times and my opinion of her has changed little, because I continue to see her as someone who is stuck in her own head and worldview. To me, she is someone who is self-centered and selfish and cares too much about herself, above the people she loves. I don't think she is completely narcissistic, because at times we see that she really cares about her brother and Ellen, but she puts herself above others and doesn't think about what her actions and plans can cause to others, emotionally or physically. To me, she has difficulty putting herself in other people's shoes and looking at them empathetically because the world is on her own ruler. Even when confronted or exposed to a situation in which she is clearly wrong, her head will invent an excuse to continue being superior in the situation, because she doesn't want to admit her bad judgment. When I eat, in the novel, she confronts Ruby saying that she wanted to suffer because she didn't stand up for herself. Saying that someone who suffers all that and doesn't say anything actually likes to be seen as a poor thing. All this after having seen that whole mirror scene, because she wants to convince herself that she is not a bad person, that what should be hers is being stolen, and because she did not get what she wants, therefore, the rest is bad. She had the audacity to say that she has self-love to justify not going after Ruby and Ellen in chapter 107, as if insinuating that Ruby does not have that and that is why she suffered in silence, besides using it as an excuse to run away, even saying out there that she loves Iske. The look in her eyes seeing the two of them is the look of someone who realizes that the things she invented in her own head were not true, and she hates that. I believe that, little by little, Freya - mine - is on the path that will lead to her end as a nun. We can see her at times with that look that she is realizing that she is wrong, but she suppresses it due to her own egocentric thoughts that do not let her accept it. Unlike what some people say, I do not see her as a victim of the family or anything like that. For me, she is a victim of her own mind. A perfect example of self-sabotage and, contrary to what she says, someone without self-love and tries to deceive herself with the exact opposite, who desperately tries to place herself as the center of the world in every situation because for her it is unacceptable in the scenario in which she is not the main and the correct one. I hate her actions, the way she thinks, and if I existed in the world in which she exists, I would definitely beat her up in that bitch. But the way her character is built is one of the best for me, because she is so bitter and so insecure at the same time that she is so self-centered and narcissistic that I think she is a very well-made character because she is very human.

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