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No, Gracie's a sociopath. Cordia is very much capable of compassion and empathy. Almost too much so. She has to turn that part of her off. Bury it. Hide it. The Blizzard Queen is a role she plays. Yet she has repeatedly shown moments of tenderness, remorse, and genuine thought and care for others.You do realize Gracie is just like her mother? So I would not say she is "effed up in the head." Yes she is a sociopath, but that is not all bad, just can be creepy at times. Also Luna is not "effed up in the head." She is just broken and scared that she is broken. Which makes things more hectic and why MC is their... to mend her.
Gracie is the Blizzard itself. Anything she appears to be that isn't a Blizzard....that's the role Gracie's playing.
Gracie even scares Cordia. That's why Cordia doesn't want Gracie in the family business. Because she knows exactly what someone with absolute 0 morality and compassion could do with the kind of power and influence Gracie would have if she ever became the head of the family. And what she might do just to become the head of the family.
That's what being a sociopath means. A sociopath isn't capable of real empathy. To them everyone else on earth is like a Videogame NPC. Think about how you yourself treat a videogame NPC. They're nothing. They're fake. They're disposable.
Now sure, maybe you have some NPCs that you really, REALLY like....that you care about. Triss/Yenn in the Witcher games. Panam/Jackie in CP2077. Your favorite party members in the Dragon Age/Mass Effect games. Etc, etc. Not all NPCs are created equal afterall. You can get attached. But that's not because you recognize some sort intrinsic value to the life and existence of this non-existant NPC. That's because of how interacting with that NPC makes you feel. That's what Luna and Cordia and maybe even the MC are to Gracie. They're her favorite NPCs.
But still just NPCs at the end of the day. And like any NPC, if Gracie ever gets bored of them she'll just...flick the power switch off.
Now maybe....maaaaaayyyybe Luna might be an exception. Luna might be the one thing in the universe Gracie truly cares about....but again, for a sociopath the degree to which they care about others is heavily dependent on how those others make the sociopath feel and how much use/value the sociopath believes they get from having that person in their life. If Luna ever truly opposed Gracie on something well...that wouldn't make Gracie feel very good anymore, would it? And that could diminish Luna's value maybe...
There are degrees of sociopathy. Maybe Luna truly is the one human tether Gracie has. Only Hopes knows that for sure. We'll see.
I've explained before that I suspect the primary reason why Cordia recruited the MC is that she is banking on him having inherited the same "gift" his father had. The ability to fix broken women with the power of his co...uhhh...compassion. Yeah. Let's call it compassion. Heh.
She brought MC into the house hoping he would do exactly what he's doing. Connecting to her three daughters. Cordia wants the MC to help Luna get over the trauma of her abduction and help Isabella get past the trauma of losing the baby and being abandoned by her husband. And he's pretty much done those two jobs at this point. Or is well underway at least.
But perhaps most of all...I think Cordia is hoping and praying the MC can become a second source of humanity for her beautiful little sociopath. Or a first, if Gracie's bond to Luna isn't really as absolute as it appears...
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