They didn't need to say it for it to be true, viewers, at least some of us gathered just as much, when Renard kept giving her instructions to attack those closest to Nick in order to force him to reveal/hand over the prized key.
The same goes with Catherine, Catherine owed a debt and Adalind was doing things for Renard to pay off that debt among other things, like seeing herself as a romantic partner to a royal prince. Adalind could have told her mother to go fish and sort her problems out herself but she didn't and to her shock, her mom turned her back on her and kicked her out of her life. She paid Renard back but not her mother, despite being angry over the abandonment.
S5, S6 she showed a keen interest to making sure her hexenbiest didn't rule over her. I think this was more like the biest taking advantage of her baser needs/wants
and negative emotions and making her act out by satiating even the most vile of desires as we saw with Juliette. She almost tearfully acknowledged the possibility when speaking with Rosalee, as viewers, we saw it with Juliette, so her words/fears were proven true but the show regardless of what viewers may believe. Those feelings and desires are inherent to them, it's what exists within them, the point is to chose differently instead of giving in to those impulses. As people we do this everyday, just not to the level we saw with this show. Some people give in to those wrong desires and act out accordingly while others chose a better life instead. Having people believe in her and a greater desire to live right for herself, children and the man she loved was probably very helpful towards her goal to keep her hexenbiest in check. We also saw a little of her attempts to help her daughter do the same in the very little time given to that relationship.
Not everyone wants their favourite character to be a villain, some hated Juliette's destructive turn after four seasons of being a good person, others hated Renard's sudden about turn during S5 when they were used to his apparent "good" side. Why should some of Adalind's fans be any different? I for one loved her and her whole journey from a character I hated because of her actions to one I cared for because she turned her life around after plenty of failures.
That last statement of yours, is not fact based on what actually happened on the show. Being a pawn has nothing to do with being abused, at least not in this case. Adalind wasn't abused, i don't think anyone has said that. Adalind chose to do the things she did and suffered the consequences thereof. It doesn't make her less a pawn since she was still following orders, only exercising some autonomy in how she carried out those orders because she wanted to make an impression on Renard. According to the dictionary, a pawn means "an unimportant person, subservient to others' plan", this is very much the Adalind of S1 until they cast out as useless, nothing more than a pretty face because she was no longer a hexenbiest, proving they had very little regard for her outside of what they wanted, Nick's key. Only after that is her every plot about getting what SHE wants and not helping out her mother who was paying an old debt to Renard.
The same goes with Catherine, Catherine owed a debt and Adalind was doing things for Renard to pay off that debt among other things, like seeing herself as a romantic partner to a royal prince. Adalind could have told her mother to go fish and sort her problems out herself but she didn't and to her shock, her mom turned her back on her and kicked her out of her life. She paid Renard back but not her mother, despite being angry over the abandonment.
S5, S6 she showed a keen interest to making sure her hexenbiest didn't rule over her. I think this was more like the biest taking advantage of her baser needs/wants
and negative emotions and making her act out by satiating even the most vile of desires as we saw with Juliette. She almost tearfully acknowledged the possibility when speaking with Rosalee, as viewers, we saw it with Juliette, so her words/fears were proven true but the show regardless of what viewers may believe. Those feelings and desires are inherent to them, it's what exists within them, the point is to chose differently instead of giving in to those impulses. As people we do this everyday, just not to the level we saw with this show. Some people give in to those wrong desires and act out accordingly while others chose a better life instead. Having people believe in her and a greater desire to live right for herself, children and the man she loved was probably very helpful towards her goal to keep her hexenbiest in check. We also saw a little of her attempts to help her daughter do the same in the very little time given to that relationship.
Not everyone wants their favourite character to be a villain, some hated Juliette's destructive turn after four seasons of being a good person, others hated Renard's sudden about turn during S5 when they were used to his apparent "good" side. Why should some of Adalind's fans be any different? I for one loved her and her whole journey from a character I hated because of her actions to one I cared for because she turned her life around after plenty of failures.
That last statement of yours, is not fact based on what actually happened on the show. Being a pawn has nothing to do with being abused, at least not in this case. Adalind wasn't abused, i don't think anyone has said that. Adalind chose to do the things she did and suffered the consequences thereof. It doesn't make her less a pawn since she was still following orders, only exercising some autonomy in how she carried out those orders because she wanted to make an impression on Renard. According to the dictionary, a pawn means "an unimportant person, subservient to others' plan", this is very much the Adalind of S1 until they cast out as useless, nothing more than a pretty face because she was no longer a hexenbiest, proving they had very little regard for her outside of what they wanted, Nick's key. Only after that is her every plot about getting what SHE wants and not helping out her mother who was paying an old debt to Renard.