Comment by Apol15 on Cid Lunius

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 Agreed, and let's not forget, her mother's still missing at this point. Meanwhile, Aisha's mother Lilia has already been reunited with her father... though I dunno if she will be accompanying him on his journey to find her. So she's probably also having conflicting thoughts and feelings about that... line what if her dad gets tempted and beds Lilia again? Will she have another sibling that she cannot compare to? 

You brought up the fact that her earliest memory of Rudeus was when he was kicking their father's a** (so she can't equate him with the amazing older brother that their parents were telling them about before the calamity)... but then Paul forgave Rudeus and even apologized to him. So she can't process that. There she was, doing her best to cheer her father up despite missing her mother as well, watching helplessly as he keeps spiraling. And all of a sudden, here comes Rudy, who beats up/bullies her dad, but he was the one who brought back his smile. Which is shortly followed by the reunion with Lilia and Aisha, who also probably made her dad smile even more. 

Now, she's trying her hardest to prove herself in the academy, while Aisha passed with flying colors despite not enrolling... and she's surrounded by expectations from professors who have seen her produgious brother's talents in action. Poor thing's probably feeling all kinds of inadequate right now

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@Apol15 This is the kind of stuff I adore this story for: you can trace back every single problem back to an earlier chapter and follow a thread of logic that leads to the current development. It's hard finding that kind of consistency.
@Apol15 100% agree. As well to add, both siblings childhoods were so vastly different. Rudy already being able to read when he was born put him way ahead of literally any other child. And norm was what? Not even like 1 when the calamity happened? Rudy had both parents teaching him his whole childhood as well as Roxy. I'm sure Norm can't even process the information for learnin out of her past traumas. I'm sure lilia made it clear she wasn't Norms mother out of respect to not ruin the family's hierarchy. So Norm didn't have her mother to mother her but a nanny/maid. And her dad I'm sure just got worse and worse over time trying to find the mom and Rudy. Like someone had said in the comments above, norm needs serious psychological help.