Editing Brandish (section)

==== [[Amy]] ====
[[Amy Dallon]], her adoptive daughter, felt - correctly<ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> - that Carol never really wanted her.<ref name="15.x"/><ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref><ref name="I3">[[Interlude 3]]</ref> After her husband received a head injury, she blamed her for not healing him.<ref name="15.x">[[Interlude 15.x]]</ref><ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Carol was constantly wary of Amy.<ref name="RPG2">Treating like a monster might be a little overboard, but they're accurate in reading scenes where Amy was neglected.<br/><br/>Carol's word choice is one hint here - you can read the interlude that was just covered and note how Carol refers to Amy vs. how she refers to Victoria. The words aren't hateful, but Amy is 'amy' and Victoria is 'my daughter'. She says, outright, "I don't want her" while the child is in earshot, and then when Lady Photon says "You could grow to love and trust that little girl, too.” Carol's (later, connecting) thought is "Liar".<br/><br/>Look at Amy's conversation with Gallant... "Carol never really wanted me. Mark is clinically depressed, so as nice as he is, he’s too focused on himself to really be a dad."<br/><br/>Interlude 11.h, ''It had always been Victoria, only Victoria, who made her feel like she had a family here.''<br/><br/>Then later, same interlude, ''What Amy felt from her ‘mother’ was a chill. She knew that she was only justifying the darker suspicions Carol had harbored towards her since she was first brought into the family. It was doubly crushing now, because Amy knew about Marquis. Amy knew that Carol was thinking the same thing she was.''<br/><br/>Carol didn't reach out, she wasn't warm, she wasn't a mother. At best, Amy was a person living in their house. At worst, Amy was someone suspicious, Marquis' daughter. So Amy never really had a 'home', a safe haven to retreat to. If you want to read between the lines, the fact that she'd go out at night to visit the hospital (and that nobody was stopping her) might indicate more about her feelings at home. She wasn't mistreated. She got fed, she got clothes. Mark (Flashbang) even tried to be a warmer dad when he was up to it, but that's something as rare as the sun coming out in the UK - brief and unpredictable bouts of good in the midst of a perpetually overcast setting. In the end, all she really had was Victoria. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?707142-Where-I-Read-Worm&p=17388925#post17388925 Comment of RPR.net] by Wildbow</ref>