@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:
@Almond-Magnum said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:
@Geezer-Weasalopes
I don't think a normal adult would have an easy time accepting, or rather, internalizing the new situation. New world, new body, everything from the old life gone aside from memories that can't even be talked about. That's a lot.
If someone woke up missing a leg, forgot they missed a leg, and fell to the ground when they tried to get out of the bed, would they be an unforgivable brat for the trouble they caused?
There's a bit of a difference between your example and being that obsessed with books.
Is there? She acted like she was still Urano, in Japan, even though she wasn't.
She was literally tearing the place apart looking for something to read.
She looked around, but her family didn't go home to a crime scene.
With zero concern for how that impacted anything.
Acting just like someone in withdrawal.
But the only reason we can say she's caused big problems is that she's sickly in a poor medieval family and not healthy in a middle class family in 21st century Japan.
Now, given everything we've seen since, she does have that kind of situation going on, even if it's not a biochemical dependency.
She is that addicted to books, or close enough.
But early on there were various other actions that showed that she didn't have consideration or respect for those caring for her.
I won't argue that she gave much thought to the strangers whose midst she was thrust into, and who (unintentionally) gaslit her about her whole life, but what actions, specifically, did she take that were so heinous?
Thinking about it some more, her book obsession actually made her less of a problem. It distracted her from everything else she lost. And losing her books is a loss she can make up for - it gave her a long term goal.
Imagine she'd been more normal. What if she missed her mom, and wasn't even allowed to grieve, because of course she hasn't lost her mom, her mom is that green-haired stranger she can't help but love but doesn't remember. What if she had a boyfriend, and was about to get married? Worse, what if she was already a wife and mother? How do you deal with that kind of loss? I mean, if you wake up in a hospital bed after a car accident, your family's only survivor, at least the hospital staff around you won't deny your family ever existed and treat you as delusional if you bring them up.