Her father is the one false note in this so far. I think there needed to be a manipulative grandparent or stepmother character or sth who was in charge of arranging the marriage to the guy she married in her last life.
I can believe that her father would try to block her entry into acting bc he didnt want her to die miserably like her mother did and I can separately believe that he could want to sell her for spare parts to benefit his company but I can’t easily believe both motivations come from the same character. He wouldnt feel so desperately about keeping her out of acting if he did not want to, in even the most minimal of ways, minimize what he sees as her inevitable suffering as an incredibly good actress. It has been years, and we see how strongly he feels about her mother still, and implicitly how he does not want her mothers fate to become hers. (Note that this is an tacit acknowledgment that he has studied her closely in both lifetimes, and he is aware of her incredible talent. So he knows this part of her well.)
If he was also trying to marry her off and to a good person (or to a person he believed was good but deceived him) to keep her away from acting, that would make sense to me. Or if he was trying to block any of her ambitions to show her he did not love her, or to show her that she should just live exactly as he demanded, because he thought of her as a tool – that would also make sense.
I say all this bc if the variables were arranged slightly differently, I could believe it, but as is, it just feels like they needed to split the difference and allocate a different part of the ‘forced marriage to a piece of scum storyline’ to a diff character. Because it is clear the father’s major and most deeply emotional motivation is making sure that what happened to his wife does not happen to his daughter; his major motivation would need to be a need for control and/or an incredibly bitter sense of resentment for his daughter for him to marry her off to someone he knows is scum AND to destroy her acting career.
He is abusive and controlling either way, but the why of it all needs to make sense in a narrative
Why are the chapters wack? This is so good!
Her father is the one false note in this so far. I think there needed to be a manipulative grandparent or stepmother character or sth who was in charge of arranging the marriage to the guy she married in her last life.
I can believe that her father would try to block her entry into acting bc he didnt want her to die miserably like her mother did and I can separately believe that he could want to sell her for spare parts to benefit his company but I can’t easily believe both motivations come from the same character. He wouldnt feel so desperately about keeping her out of acting if he did not want to, in even the most minimal of ways, minimize what he sees as her inevitable suffering as an incredibly good actress. It has been years, and we see how strongly he feels about her mother still, and implicitly how he does not want her mothers fate to become hers. (Note that this is an tacit acknowledgment that he has studied her closely in both lifetimes, and he is aware of her incredible talent. So he knows this part of her well.)
If he was also trying to marry her off and to a good person (or to a person he believed was good but deceived him) to keep her away from acting, that would make sense to me. Or if he was trying to block any of her ambitions to show her he did not love her, or to show her that she should just live exactly as he demanded, because he thought of her as a tool – that would also make sense.
I say all this bc if the variables were arranged slightly differently, I could believe it, but as is, it just feels like they needed to split the difference and allocate a different part of the ‘forced marriage to a piece of scum storyline’ to a diff character. Because it is clear the father’s major and most deeply emotional motivation is making sure that what happened to his wife does not happen to his daughter; his major motivation would need to be a need for control and/or an incredibly bitter sense of resentment for his daughter for him to marry her off to someone he knows is scum AND to destroy her acting career.
He is abusive and controlling either way, but the why of it all needs to make sense in a narrative