that these FLs are Too Stupid To Live.
This particular FL has a mother who is the Magic Tower's Master. Mommy is at the very tippy-top of the magician's power pyramid. It took FL this long to finally ask mommy about some straight up weird ass shit that's been happening around her since her childhood. FL is a young adult now, probably in her early 20s.
It says mommy and daddy in this story are both super busy but both are still involved enough to come visit the FL often...so both of them should have caught on.
Not only that FL is still being verbally abused by another ex fiance who's a tower magician. In public! She never once told his boss, her mom, that he's still coming after her? Wtf, girl, grow a fucking pair.
And worst of all? Mommy knows her darling gorl is a doormat...mommy said so. Yet she let 4 separate men wipe their shit on her baby's face for more than a decade and is only NOW making an entrance? Bitch, what?
Oh, that's not the end of it either. Mommy is a hotshot Big Deal in the magician world, right? She literally has the power to look into the truth. So, uh, why'd you wait so long to become useful?
The "true memory" spell or whatever can be countered but come on. That counter has a counter, I just know it.
It's not like FL is destitute. Her financial well being is beyond secure. Her family adores her. She's a high ranking noble! She has zero reasons to fear these exes. Like, what can they do to he hurt her? Why is she giving them so much power over her?
She keeps whining that she wants a better life, that things in this world isn't "fair" and wants to not be so completely misunderstood, and also have someone who truly loves her for herself but she ALSO says nothing in this world is worth the effort. So, she does NOT fight for it. Ever. In the past and early chapters of this she just cries about it without trying to change.
And reality was never fair in the first place. Not in the world she's living in OR in the one she came from. Hell, real life isn't fair in our reality. The way she keeps going on and on about it makes me want to bitch slap the rose tinted, woe-is-me glasses off of her.
At least the OG!FL is actively fighting for what she wants, and fighting dirty. I can respect that bitch's hustle. Yet it took 25 unholy chapters for FL to get her head out of her ass.
If it's not the OG!FL making her life miserable FL, 100%, would do it to herself. Instead of recognizing she's self sabotaging she blames the world's "unfairness" instead of her own milquetoast, wallflower behavior.
This is bad writing.