Those questions will come and go whether we want it or not, unfortunately.
But while we are talking about Emily, there is something I wanted to ask,
but most certainly didn't want to start another shitstorm like after the release of 0.6. So, please, handle your justice boners politely if you will
I don't hate her or like her, I'm more on the coldish neutral side. But thing is, I actually really want to like her and my opinion would improve dramatically with a few extra lines, but oh well. To be clear, obviously not my story and I'm just saying it to illustrate a point.
Emily is this character that accrued a lot of sympathy points - losing (?) her mom, getting pregnant young, abandoned by "babydaddy", married to jealous guy etc. That is all true, life has been hard, but I wanted to focus on the only one "real" mistake she made - they way she approached situation with Santhiago when the MC was a kid. I'm not talking about Andres being right or wrong back then, Santhiagos rights and all that stuff, only from a moral perspective, about a parent being responsible for her child's happiness at that age. That was one mistake that lead to pretty big consequences and... it was barely acknowledged by one line "I know I shouldn't have", followed with "but buts".
I don't want her to suffer (wtf) or to belittle/dismiss her hardships, I want a teeny tiny bit of self-reflection from a mature adult she is supposed to be at 36(38?). I mean, young Alexis had
a lot of self-aware inner monologue, why can't Emily? That bit of self-reflection would make the difference between headstrong and strong/tenacious mom-survivor, imo. It would also shed a very different light on her depression and drinking after the divorce (right it looks 50/50 between self-pity and remorse, totally understandable and relatable, she was entitled to part of it, but it's not necessarily "likeable"), and on her shipping the MC off to Andres who "always knew what to say".
So uhm... Does somebody feel similarly here? Or is she completely fine just the way she is?