Kirsty answers “Why does everyone love Cardan and glorify...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5):

Why does everyone love Cardan and glorify his (frankly abusive) relationship with Jude? There is definitely a difference between 'bad boys' and 'assholes', and Cardan falls into the latter for me. He's interesting, but why in the world would you have the hots for him?

Kirsty because we're all emotionally traumatized. we try to convince ourselves that they aren't abusive, they just had it rough as a kid so they can't help i…morebecause we're all emotionally traumatized. we try to convince ourselves that they aren't abusive, they just had it rough as a kid so they can't help it and we tell ourselves to wait it out and not to worry cause they'll get a (pitiful) redemption arc eventually, right?? (less)

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