#leylah

i don't even think senadina is like, a bad person, its hard to know whether she could have done anything differently for leylah especially in a world without qualified psychologists who can diagnose and treat personality disorders but still. it does feel like her insane fawning and coddling of leylah only led to bad outcomes. not in a "spoiling your child is bad for them" way, but in a way where leylah was already primed to knowing she could always get whatever she wanted, and that combined with the lovebombing from sena meant that she never really got to grow up or understand how to cope with loss. and its also a symptom of how sena herself was raised, where she was always a "princess" and everyone always worshipping her and loving her. maybe the answer is that hereditary monarchy in itself is a kind of abuse, or just that the cycle of abuse is simply inescapable... disclaimer i think that i might even be overusing the word abuse here, that is just because i think its the best word to describe the situation (or grooming...) and the way hoyo writes parent/child relationships is often fraught, but at the same time some of their best work ever. i like senadina but i think she has some big problems, thats part of WHY i like her. leylah did nothing wrong though