Thoughts on Winter:
Okay so I know she’s like nobody’s favorite but I actually really liked her. HEAR ME OUT PLEASE!! So obviously in all honesty when I heard about Alice’s character changing into Winter I was like a bit disappointed to see her transform into like a really unlikable person and when I read the first of phase 3, I found it hard to like her because of her personality, views and just her as a whole. Eventually I may have lowkenuenly just gave up reading a mind full of murder barley half way through because of the lack of Ghanith and…the lack of Ghanith (I really thought that HE was going to give us more but whatever I’m like so totally over it), and I forgot about it for a while until I actually picked it up again because I wanted to get onto a heart full of hatred, and so I continued the book half way but then had to keep going back to remember the parts that I missed, so I ended up reading the whole thing again, anyway tangent aside, Winter really wasn’t what I thought she was first described as, I mean like obviously she’s a brat and like not likable… like um in the slightest, and I know that people always say that, and I’m not saying it’s wrong but If that’s all your seeing, you can’t truly be understanding the point of her character. She’s meant to be spoiled and she’s meant to be rude and unlikable and ever so slightly narcissistic, but that’s because she’s always been in the shadow of Valkyrie, I don’t know If I just think this because I can relate to her a lot easier since I’m still growing up as the youngest of seven, but like I feel a lot of people miss that about her, which I also get lol, and because of that, she gets misunderstood and labelled as annoying and pointless, which is like…the opposite of what Derek was trying to present her as, even if she seems that way. I think that’s what I like about her though, she’s shown as this looser nobody but inside she’s just really hurting (If you know what happened to her as a child then you’ll know), and because of that, she’s just taking it out on everyone else, specifically Valkyrie.. like I know it’s fiction or whatever but I couldn’t even imagine having that jealousy spiral into hate over the years- especially as a teenage girl, and even though she's older than me now, I can still relate with that envy and resentment. A lot. And I think that the reason that Valkyrie wasn't like that was because she had a certain someone who she could talk to whenever she had feelings like that, not that she ever did, but Winter didn't have a support system like that, all she had was Valkyrie, who in the end she'd outgrown, and all of that slight resentment, that tiny spec of envy she'd had towards Valkyrie just consumed her until all she could do was hate her (and herself), obviously the love was still there but maybe that's what made her anger grow even more.
Therefore!(after a whole random arsed rant, I'm rlly sorry about that) I don't think Winter is a bad or annoying person by any means I think she's just like...a teenager.
Idk...
(I mean, It's basically like magical puberty!-Tanith's words)
