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six of crows/free reign au crossover where pin hawthorne is just kaz if he never left the farm
Sorry, long rant.
Want to know the thing I hate most about free rein?(Tldr at bottom) Everyone constantly invalidates and ignores that Zoe has her own crap going on. In season 1 alone we find out the following:
Zoe's parents are talking about divorce
Zoe has toxic/ possessive friends back home in LA (quotes- "no weirdly possessive 'friends'." "My friends will be there when I get back. Probally."- her mom then gives her a sypathetic/ concerned look.)
Zoe emphasizes how much she hates drama and wants to get away from it every five seconds, which, concerning
She has to deal with her all over the place mom and her sister who keeps invading her space and used up her luggage space for some odd reason (keeps digging through her stuff to find varius pairs of shoes.)
Her mom basically implies that it's her job to look after her sister, while she sits at home and does nothing
Her mom keeps projecting her trauma onto her with no explanation, gives no reason as to why what she's doing is wrong besides "I need you to look after your sister."
Her sister keeps implying to her that she doesn't meet her standard of what her sibling should be and both keeps trying to force her to change her appearance or hang out with her "new sister." (I know the mental toll from experience.)
And oh yeah- look at their rooms in Frank's house, and tell me which kid gets treated better. The one who's basically only change she gets to her room in the first two seasons of the show, (asumed june to august.) is the boxes getting taken out, or the one who's room looks like a sweet sixteen photo op.
And this is not including her friends at bright fields weird back and fourth of trying to imply to both Pin and Marcus that they should ask her out, the weird peer pressuring to get with Marcus, and everyone hating her for reporting someone for stealing horse medication?
I'M SORRY?!?!?!?!? And again, this is just the crap she deals with in season 1. There are only two instances in the show I can think of where she did something bad that wasn't justified, had a good explanation for why she did it, or just- not something she should have gotten yelled at for? (I.e. pony prom fight with Becky and Jade) speaking of that fight, they don't say sorry for over reacting or not letting her finish her fricking sentence. They just go, apology accepted! And move on.
Oh and yeah, she cheated on Marcus. But he tried to get her ARESTED because he was jealous, is possessive, gives the most halfa**ed apology for TRYING TO GET HER ARESTED! And oh yeah, almost drowns Pin and tackles him to the ground.
And then the James situation. Let's see, the man talks to Mia in a way that makes me want to vomit, does the equivalent of "I'm not touching you." with Raven, manipulates and gaslights everyone, made her use a whip on Raven, gets Gabby sent away to a group home with the remorse of a guy saying "well I only cheated on you that one time and it was a while ago," and cherry on top? Swaps her mints, with something that quote "will make Raven impossible to ride." You know what I do with mints? I finish almost an entire tin if I can in one day. What if Zoe had eaten one of them?
Want to know what recognition she gets for being right about him? Cricket chirps, and an apology-ish about it from Gabby. No one else even brings it up again.
Tldr- Zoe gets way too much crap piled onto her, and gets treated like a cry baby who's life is perfect throughout the entire series, despite going through more than what half the characters on that show did.
Sorry, was just thinking about this for a while and it makes me both mad and sad that she gets blamed for so much and she's proved right, never gets a sorry.