I think that Victoria might be an Aspie, i.e., a person affected by Asperger's syndrome.
People like that are often brilliant academically, shining stars in some areas actually, while at the same time weirdly and endearingly unworldly, unsophisticated, trusting and incapable of understanding base human behaviours, feelings and emotions like violence, deceit, jealously, hate or cheating others underhandedly. Vic does seem to possess Aspie-like wide-eyed sweetness and innocence in bucket loads while simultaneously being very intelligent, which would explain why she was suddenly strongly attracted to the MC out of the blue, isn't full of anger towards and hate for the person (Marla) who's vehicle collided with and disabled her, or lost in a cloud of hopelessness, self-pity and depression because of her completely undeserved plight and consequent difficulty and suffering.
Just a thought but it would explain much in respect to Vic's quirky personality and eccentric behaviour.
(Based on an intense friendship I once enjoyed with an Aspie girl in the real world.)