some of hazel's most defining quotes/moments are about choosing her own path and refusing to let others define her, not to mention that her powers literally let her define new pathways. from the beginning, she dislikes being paired with frank by others, resents nico for calling her bianca, hates how being pluto's daughter/in the fifth cohort dictates how she's treated by others. and even in her first life, even under everything that she was suffering, we still see moments of rebellion. she curses at her teachers and sneaks into segregated riding clubs and defends her mother to school bullies. but then when it comes to her mother she never once pushes back, even internally, against what her mother calls her. she doesn't disagree with being called a poisoned child, she doesn't fight that even in her own mind. it very clearly lingers with her but she doesn't try to process it or how she feels about it like she does everything else. in most cases hazel has a lot of self possession and a well developed sense of herself but it doesn't even occur to her in that moment that her mother could have been wrong about her.
