@mars✨ I share the same thoughts. I mean we understand that the society that it centered is patriarchal but they're the same human traits with emotions. Huma has survival instincts unlike weeds that's stepped on does nothing. Our survival instincts kicks in. We struggle to survive just like literally drowning we make a fuss to stay afloat and that is human nature. It's disappointing and frustrating reading it as it is. You kick a stray dog would surely bite back. Its frustrating to see a very meek character and its development took too long. She got a very strong male lead. I think it's basic instinct to be on equal footing to your partner to feel confidently stand beside each other. The innate feeling of striving to better ourselves.
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@KittyCat
tottaly agree with you. It is all just the frustration of waiting so long for those characters to reach the point where they decide to start fighting for themselves. I also feel that not only with Maxi's character but with other characters from similar stories the authors tend to use the same formula where they exaggerate the female lead's kindness, naivety and even at certain times childlike behavior just to enhance the character's purity, making the reader feel more empathetic towards them. But for me this has become quite the predictable way of narrating, so much to the point it kinda strips the character from all of their other positive qualities, minimizing it just to their borderline infantile behavior.
Maxi has such strong potential to come out of her shell and start fighting but it feels like they are prolonging her development way too much. As you said she has a very strong male lead next behind her back who doesn't really overpower her in the story and gives her the grounds to grow(ofc he is protective but with reason - every time she didn't listen something happened). I just wish we could see more of her stepping up for herself and finally fighting back instead of still being unsure.
@KittyCat I genuinely get what you mean and I do... because maybe if I was her I would have done things differently...but that's why we are humans aren't we..so similar yet so different. One thing psychology has taught me is all of us react to stimuli differently, Maxi isn't us but she's strong if u look from her perspective. People have weak mental strength while some have quite strong, they might go through he** and death but still stand strong but other people won't..but that's just humane...it's not cz they are weak, its cz everyone's different...sure she found comfort and that might be enough for her to hold onto to run off and fight but man riftan hadn't been talking to her during those last times before they got separated..a person who already has enough anxiety a tiny bit of push can result to ALOT, but trust me after this arc her faith in riftan's love is bounded by alot of means cz that's js what she needed and she has a SELF growth Arc asw so yeaa :)