◇•Masako•◇

Sieglinde hates being called a victim. Yes, she is a victim because of the accident she experienced and the abuse she suffered in the past, but she rejects this label. This stems from her general association of the word "victim" with weakness. Considering the perfect victim theory and how people perceive the word, the resulting perception is that the "victim" is weak, powerless, and has escaped their situation thanks to God (at least in the context of what happened).

Plus, she's annoying, hateful, and overthinking. Her thoughts are suffocating. Reading paragraphs about her reaction to a single character's arrogance would be exhausting.

Her obsession stems from her traumatic experience. She has no memories in her brain of the time she sustained the burns. In fact, she has no memories of anything up until the day before the incident.

She has memories of the time before and after the accident, but nothing about that specific moment. There's literally a void in her brain, and this is causing the injury to have an even worse impact on her.

Imagine going to bed one night as if nothing happened, and waking up in the hospital with burns covering almost half your body. You can imagine the shock and fear you would experience.

And on top of all that, see how sad your family, the adults who are supposed to protect you, are because they couldn't do it

Then you wouldn't feel safe and you'd want to protect yourself, right? And that's where Sieglinde's control obsession begins.