a lot of people in this fandom admire lady lesso (especially since she sacrificed herself and all to save the Woods), but i really just can’t get over her abandoning young aric by himself just to keep her job
like, yeah she’s a never and as nevers they believe that love isn’t enough of a reason, but wHO THE HELL LEAVES A KID IN THE WOODS BY HIMSELF??
LIKE HOW DO YOU DO THAT??
and we can’t really attribute this to all Never parents, cause look at Callis for crying out loud! she adopted a kid who wasn’t even her own child and physically transformed herself to look more like her so the other townspeople wouldn’t speculate!!
and lady lesso was able to show genuine love for someone else besides her self, like her best friend clarissa dovey and her best student sophie (who she even said she saw as her own child), so why couldn’t she feel the same way for aric??
you’re probably going to say tho that it’s too late by then, cause he’a all revenge-hungry and probably wouldn’t see reason, but that’s kind of the point
forget the fact that aric is a raging lunatic who tortured people for kicks for a moment (tho i know it’s hard to), and remember that this was a kid who had to leave with the knowledge that his own mother - the one person who most of us know we can always count on on matter what happened - left him for dead basically!! in the woods!! alone!!!
well we dont really have much of a backstory tbh to know if lesso left him with some form of protection or not tbh
maybe lesso has more of a reason behind it, like maybe she didn’t like being reminded of aric’s father or something like that, but if that was the case, why would she keep aric close in the first place by placing him in the blue forest so she can be near him?
let’s be honest, child abandonment is child abuse, and there’s really no excusing that
i’m sure i’m not the only one who has wondered how different aric would have turned out if he’d grown up with a postive role model or some good influence or something like that
i’m not saying that this excuses aric for the terrible, terrible things he has done in the series, but what more can we expect of a person who has not been taught to be anything but a monster?
he probably had to go through some rough ordeals in order to survive, and maybe he lost some parts of his humanity to live to see another day
no one was there for him (probably, due to lack of backstory™ ) so how can expect him to act like a morally upstanding citizen, especially given his Never nature?
i know it’s easy to hate aric (i know i do) but we have to remember that villains just dont come out being bad irl (no matter how misleading this series may be lol) but because they went through some horrific experiences and didn’t have proper direction or a working conscience to stop them or make them change or something
aric was a child then, plain and simple, who did not deserve to go through that
no matter how grand a legacy leonora lesso left behind, it doesn’t excuse the fact that she abandoned her own child to save her skin
or like did the school master threaten her or something that he would kill aric if lesso didn’t abandon her child or something? cause then im gonna be really mad at soman for his lack of clarification™ and at myself for writing this really long post for nothing









