I like it a lot how Levia’s struggles are not get helped by someone else. She doesn’t allow anyone to get closer to her, and. No one gets. Because that’s what she translates to others. And they don’t suddenly understand she actually wants to have connections and needs help. She doesn’t ask for help and naturally doesn’t receive help (here it’s mostly about 2nd Per Levia and Pride/early Sloth Elluka; the incident with Levia asking Seth for an advice is interesting, like yay girl asked for help but it ended up as a betrayal which probably only worsened her trust issues)
One more thing is how Levia doesn’t gets better with more and more suffering. Only worse. And her wrongdoings are not justified by the narrative at all. I think she’s a good example how the backstory can fully explain the actions, but not justify or forgive them and the person. No one comes to comfort her or asking anything about her feelings when she was being “hysterical”. Why would anyone?
The most painful scene of this for me is the dialogue between Elluka and Mariam in Green (and in the manga, tbh I mostly remember it from the manga) when Elluka announced her planning to leave Lucifenia. Mariam ofc doesn’t want her to leave because she’s their friend, but instead of telling this she starts to dance around with less personal things like Elluka’s power and its importance to the country. Because she knows Elluka. Or what Elluka presents of herself. Mariam intellectualises things because she thinks it would have more impact on Elluka and fails here. Because that’s what Elluka was translating — how aloof and rational she is. Naturally that another person agreed to play on this terms instead of trying to get more into her personal space.
Even when someone helps she tries to avert it (like when Gumillia states that Elluka was panicking during the fight in the Gift novel, or the whole Allen’s taking her out of delusion in MoN). Even when she gets help in critical situations she doesn’t accept it. Why would anyone help her before then? No, how could anyone?
This all puts most of the responsibility of Levia’s suffering on Levia herself. Yes, she was suffering. She was in awful mental statement. She couldn’t form any other coping mechanisms due to her upbringing. But when she grew up, her actions and her decisions became her responsibility. That’s unfair considering how she was. But that’s pretty realistic I guess, that others won’t consider it. They don’t have to. Especially when you presents yourself like Levia did