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You're really giving some rose colored glasses to this. Becca was severely traumatized, like she was literally a broken woman at the time. Under the circumstances, she'd be certified unstable if not insane. Elaine here wanted her to confront and deal with martin, she pushed for it at different points, always disregarding her own daughter's will, because of what she felt to be right. First she wanted to use becca to do the "best for the family", and later she uses the MC for the same purposes. I don't mind if you like elaine, but shes clearly not a saint. Do read back on how she kept wanting becca to do things and it drove becca away, she wasn't thinking about her daughter at that time, it was her grandkids and yes, the MC at this time. I might be biased because I've seen some really abusive relationships, but what elaine wanted becca to do was borderline cruel, and because of the shoddy way it was handled, it could have made becca even worse than she already was. She was seriously a very broken woman. People are forgetting how broken the MC was too, because he recovered so fast. If there is one thing I can fault in the story, is that the characters move on/recovery very quickly. These people under normal circumstances should be far more broken, Lucy is a prime example of going from 0 to 100 perfect in almost an instant. It makes the readers forget how bad the situation is for these people and how bad what they went through was. Its a happy game, I understand the reasoning behind that, but your perspective on how devastating that whole thing elaine was doing to becca at the time is just way out of whack.
Edit: BTW, your explanation of Elaine's actions and behavior after becca and mary give up, prove my point about what would happen if the MC refused the phone call. Elaine would go off, the gingers would know its due to the MC, it really would have made everything worse. The MC has said several times, he only made the choice he did, because the alternative was to hurt the girls. There is only an illusion of choice, Elaine knew exactly every move she was making. The funny thing is I explained before though, all of this isn't why I dislike Elaine, everything I am saying is within the story, its what happened. I don't fault her for it, like she was terrible, but its not bad in my mind. I'm just asking you also to recognize, shes not innocent, the story does set up that this is what she did and she even owns up to it. Elaine still has a lot of good qualities, you don't really have to sell that aspect of her on me. I'm only saying all this stuff cus you're pushing it, but again, its all in game.
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