(07-25-2018, 02:59 PM)irukandji Wrote: First of all, I didn't say she went overseas in an effort to impress her mother. I said I didn't get the impression she went overseas to impress her mother.
Secondly, I never saw and still don't see Adalind as viewing herself as worthless. I can't remember exactly what she said to Nick when he took her hexenbiest away, but I don't recall her saying anything about being worthless.
If she viewed herself as worthless, she wouldn't be going overseas to trade a child she views as valuable. You're saying she cared about Catherine and Renard. I don't see that either as she was willing to give up her child for a hexenbiest or worse yet, abort it if she didn't get her way. The child is related to them. If Adalind really cared for them as you state, she wouldn't think of trading or killing the child.
Adalind didn't tell Nick she felt worthless but she did say he "killed her". She was visibly devastated and a broken person walking away from that fight and that was before she talked to Catherine and Renard.
Adalind wanted to trade the child to feel like her old self again. She was going to trade the valuable child so she could get her biest back and feel valued again herself. The child being valuable didn't make Adalind feel valuable.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying about Adalind caring about Catherine and Renard. She didn't plan on winning them back. They disowned her and Adalind actually had the awareness to not be submissive to them anymore. That doesn't mean their effect on her disappeared. They made her feel absolutely worthless without the Hexenbiest so she wanted her powers back to feel valuable again but it wasn't to get back in their good graces especially seeing that Catherine was already dead. I'm not attributing her relationships with them as the entire reason she wanted the biest back but they definitely contributed to how important she felt being a Hexenbiest was and how awful her life would be without it going forward.
The baby was a just a commodity to Adalind before she was born. She wasn't a real person worthy of her love when she planned on selling her. I guess you can say her maternal instinct kicked in once she was born.
(07-25-2018, 05:12 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: What have you done?
You killed me.
I'm nothing now.
I don't have any powers.
You've taken everything.
I'm just like everybody else.
I guess this pretty much sums it up. I went on this long diatribe and then I read this post. I could've saved myself a few minutes.
And as a preemptive strike, Adalind believing she's like everyone else back then was pretty much equivalent to her feeling worthless.