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@BlushinBlaqBunny Mmmm, *no*, I didn't. Fine, you called her IGNORANT, which (while the two DO often have different nuances) is not much better than calling her stupid. If you wanna play semantics though, that's fine, you called her IGNORANT.

My point still stands though: it's ridiculous to hold her fully responsible as an unreliable narrator when she was deliberately kept from a lot of information regarding Ethans execution of her father. She's not some perfect heroine, as certain perspectives ARE distorted (like the ones concerning her father), but others are not (like the ones concerning Ethan). He didn't kill her dad for no reason (obviously), but he was vague and lacked the communication necessary to prevent this from spiraling. Some important events she's saying are true either aren't, or just didn't happen in the way she remembered it, however some important events did. Most people, who've read the original/spoilers, including myself, agree that she's not some fully objective force and that there ARE things she got wrong, but we also understand that there's nuance to it. Her narration is fractured (by both her own actions and by Ethan's), but it's not totally unrealiable.

At its bare bones, an unreliable narrator is someone who's rendition of events is to be taken with a minute or no accuracy, and that isn't the entire case here. It's like The Great Gatsby vs One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or some of H.P. Lovecraft's stories (like the one with the German captain. It's been awhile since I've read it so I can't remember the name)

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BlueBayMember·2 years ago(edited)
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My primary issue is that her unreliability itself isnt unbroken. Only about half the issues are actually unreliable.

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend she's some angel who got nothing wrong, however most of what she got wrong is irt to her father. The only things she got wrong with Ethan were 1. *why* he killed her dad (betrayal vs for kicks/power) And 2. That Ethan is wholly awful. He isn't, he *did* care about her and try to do what's best for his nation, however he was simultaneously a dodgy bi*** who refused to properly communicate on so heavy an issue (not to mention one that affected the FL personally) and when the FL realistically broke down over losing her only family (and two of, like, 3 personal connections) for seemingly no reason and put death on the table, he told her she should've died.

He's not good and her general hatred of him and remembrance of his actions isn't unreliable, so much as certain explanations to *why*. I'm not arguing that she's entirely reliable, only that I wouldn't consider her full-stop unreliable either. She's in one of those uncommon middle grounds.