I Think My Nuclear-level, Get Me Kicked Off The Internet Take Is That Glory *does* Have The Kind Of Trauma

I think my nuclear-level, get me kicked off the internet take is that Glory *does* have the kind of trauma that would lead to her being in a relationship with a much older man, and I say that as someone who got groomed as a teen myself. She had her boundaries and self-image *deeply* violated by her only parental figures and that sort of thing can lead to maladaptive approval-seeking in non-family spaces. Someone like Deathbringer who fawns over her so easily in a sea of "never good enough"-s like that can be intoxicating and make you ignore a lot of warning signs.

Related to that, I always thought it was a little frustrating how the opening chapters of book 3 draw attention to how she kind of liked being Scarlet's work of art because it was an opportunity to rest and be appreciated by someone that wasn't her siblings for once in her life, and then that feeling just gets...squashed and never followed up on?

I still firmly believe the age gap was a worldbuilding error but I think if you wanted to write Glorybringer as an age gap to explore the tension between her self-sufficiency and closed-off nature vs her desire for approval as a result of parental abuse, that's a valid and interesting direction to take her character. Am I projecting my experiences onto Glory? Definitely, but I see a lot of myself in her and I think with enough care and responsible writing there's a story to tell there.

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