[Toriel has some fairly strong feelings about most of the things Angus has said, and she just gets ready for them all to come spilling out.]
A woman who takes in a lonely child to make them work for her does not sound like the kind of woman who should be a mother figure at all.
If I may be honest- well, I have to be honest, so if I may be polite by warning you that what I am about to say may be a bit unpleasant to hear, I have never liked those kinds of novels. They can be entertaining, surely, and I can definitely see how kids would like them. As an adult reading them, however, all I can think of is how very unsafe it was for kids to be in situations like that, and how incredibly irresponsible it was for people to allow them to do such things. I also sometimes worried that it may be a bad impression on kids and urge them to do unsafe things, which... seems may have been the case?
It is completely possible to take a child seriously, without also letting them do incredibly unsafe things. 'Being treated like a kid' is not always the same as 'not listening to you'.
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A woman who takes in a lonely child to make them work for her does not sound like the kind of woman who should be a mother figure at all.
If I may be honest- well, I have to be honest, so if I may be polite by warning you that what I am about to say may be a bit unpleasant to hear, I have never liked those kinds of novels. They can be entertaining, surely, and I can definitely see how kids would like them. As an adult reading them, however, all I can think of is how very unsafe it was for kids to be in situations like that, and how incredibly irresponsible it was for people to allow them to do such things. I also sometimes worried that it may be a bad impression on kids and urge them to do unsafe things, which... seems may have been the case?
It is completely possible to take a child seriously, without also letting them do incredibly unsafe things. 'Being treated like a kid' is not always the same as 'not listening to you'.