I like how you're writing Noodle. My experience with being a teenager thus far is that everybody treats me like I should know better but at the same time like I don't know enough, and they never get the mix quite right. I can relate to Noodle's struggle in not feeling heard or listened to and everybody treating her like a little kid while leaving her to fend for herself. Not entirely, because our family dynamics are very different, but I feel this is a common issue and it's made worse for her by the unstable environment, generational trauma (Murdoc), and the fact that they haven't seen each other in a year and all changed.
I wish we had gotten a little more insight into Noodle's feelings in phase 2 because being a teenager in a dysfunctional household is hard enough, going through it in the public eye must be a nightmare. It's telling that in canon, she refers to them more often like "brothers" because they lack the maturity and responsibility to care for her. And fandom is very guilty of reducing her to "the responsible one" when she was a CHILD, so I feel I have to do her justice
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Olitree3 on Chapter 2 Sun 29 Jan 2023 12:37AM UTC
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