so she wouldnt dissect any of her own internal biases but most ESPECIALLY not during a time when she beleives herself to be the victim of sovishou (rightly so tbh fuck that guy) and is defending herself and trying to live happily to the best of her abilities.

shes absolutely projecting monsters onto the world, but also theres real and present threats that she has to be paranoid and suspicious to root out! and rashta is making enemies by unseatint The Goddamn Empress and them trying to "rize above her station" and learn the political game... which IS a classist beleif that navier ABSOLUTELY holds. she resents rashta for existing, for stealing her home, her marriage, and now shes a political rival and threat to her cirrent marriage!

so to me it very much reads as "navier is a fantastic and objective narrator when it comes to politics and social maneuvering. and HORRIBLE at dissecting her own biases" esp to see that rashka was, at every step, unable to deny souvishou anything. she is even more a victim of circumstances than navier. but navier will never recognize that

now rashta IS absolutely a victim in all this. but victims can become villians too very easily by expressing their pain in ways that hurt others, perpetuating the cycles of power and abuse. and thats what's happening to her, and its because of the violence enacted upon her by the very class she is now entering that she is able to add to abuses by participating in it. and navier has ZERO ability to even comprehend this.

navier is a struggling divorcee who is convinced that all people everywhere live with a courts/palaces level of betrayal and subterfuge so she doesnt give any kindness or leeway to rashta; obviously assuming that rashta manipulated her way to unseating her. as any court lady would have. it makes sense given how mavier was socialized and how she views the world, she cannot comprehend that rashta was used and victimized even more than she was. only just beginning to play what cards have been handed to her to the best of her ability for survival and safety. she only sees a homewrecker and a political rival.

and as we see from naviers pov most often thats the impression that the reader walks away with too if they dont look into the details with a critical (as in pick it apart to see how it works not criticism until i think it sucks) eye