I am totally cool with people having criticisms of Dispatch and it's writing, there's no such thing as a perfect story and even I have my nitpicks. However I don't think "it's not my job to babysit an adult woman" is very fair because that's literally what the Phoenix Program is about. That is Robert's job. The entire point of working with the Z-Team is rehabilitation.
Lemme preface this with saying You Do Not Have to Like Invisigal but Let Me Yap about this for a sec.
Invisigal is a neurodivergent and disabled at-risk person who's medical debt was used against her to make her do jobs for the Red Ring. Her lung capacity was deteriorating in front of her and she truly believed that it was her only option.
As someone who has both ADHD and a physical disability I can understand her desperation and fears and why she would take that option. If I met someone who told me they could fix my legs and spine and let me run again for free I would feel desperate to take the offer. But that offer trapped her in service to Shroud and being used like a tool.
Her entire life she has been convinced that she's biologically and mentally incapable of being good or worthy of love. (I personally think her abrasive side is a coping mechanism for RSD but that's me.) My point is that I get her. I can understand why she does the things she does and don't see her as a 'magic pixie dream alt girl' like some others do. I see someone in need who's been left behind by the system and has tried to survive with mixed results.
She so so desperately wants to be seen as someone who can be a good person and as someone who can change, but if you don't give her the chances she needs she gives up. She stops trying and that's why the achievement for the Bad Ending says you failed. Because that was your job.
You don't expect someone who's quitting an addictive substance to cold turkey one and done throw off their addiction. They'll relapse sometimes and it's baby steps. In rehab situations you need to be a guiding hand to help them through these hurdles and be an external voice of support.
The amount of people I've seen completely abandon her in the story because of her past actions that she's obviously been extremely regretful of since the moment she did them just kinda unnerved me.
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