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Apparently she loves her son, but hates… his desire for his father’s admiration and attention?
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Apparently she loves her son, but hates… his desire for his father’s admiration and attention?
I want to know the truth behind the relationship between Donovan and Melinda right now (“I don’t need to sleep, I need answers!”)
She must hate Donovan but love her son and there’s a kind of cognitive dissonance between her seeing her son and also seeing the man she hates in her son.
“My treasure, my curse” “How I adore you” and “How he disgusts me”
This was an interesting chapter to look at. Now this adds more questions for us to figure out.
Based on existing evidence, Melinda hates Donovan with all her soul. She loves her son and MAY have initiated contact with Yor in a way to see Damian without Donovan knowing.
In closing, business is about to pick up.
I know a good doctor that can help her. He works at Berlinit hospital
The biggest hint for me is that she refers to Donovan as “that man”, showing a large rift between the two. She loves Damian but hates how Damian pays more attention to his father rather than to her who was literally showing him lots of affection just now. Damian is also a constant reminder that Donovan is Melinda’s husband and it seems like a lot of conflicting hatred is being projected onto Damian as a result.
At least, that’s how I interpreted it
Im pretty sure she does genuinly love Damien (whether its a healthy love or obsessive is still to be seen), but something is definitely going on between the parents.
Maybe she’s being controlled/kept in check through her love for Damien? Whats her relationship like with his brother?
She was relieved and showed care to Damian until he mentioned his father… There’s definitely something going on between Donovan and Melinda.
Earlier on in the manga it’s said that she’d faded into the background as the Desmond wife and used to be quite active politically. The question is why? Was it because she became a mother? Does she suffer from a type of mental illness that she developed causing her to have to keep a low profile? (Her thoughts were extremely conflicted and very drastically different, bipolar disorder or postpartum depression perhaps? not an expert on mental health issues so don’t know if this is the case) it would be interesting to see if Spyxfamily explores these kinds of issues too as they address and explore a lot of social and political issues.
Or perhaps it’s to do with her wanting to protect her kids and so not being able to move freely politically?
I guess we’ll have to see what future chapters bring us.
I ran here as soon as I finished that chapter, so Damian’s mom seems to genuinely loves Damian, but for some reason doesent want to love Damian or atleast not publicly shows that she cares, safety reasons mayb?
She refers to her husband as “that man”, which is an interesting choice of words. Shows that she doesn’t even want to acknowledge him in the slightest.
I wanna see Donovan and Melinda interact so bad
The reason these panels of Melinda are so scary is because its a realistic portrayal of an abuser’s mindset
Some abusers *do* actually love their victim but are so messed up in the head that they’ll occasionally flip. While Melinda hasn’t been shown abusing Damian in an obvious way, the fact that she even entertains the idea of wanting Damian to die is horrific
I’m guessing she loves Damian because he’s her son, but hates how he connects her to Donovan.
Donovan must’ve pulled some super endeavour type of shit on her to the point that she hates him with a passion whenever his name is mentioned to her, remembers that her sons share his flesh and blood or if she simply sees him.
soo… I’d say she really loves her son, but hates how everything he does is related to his father opinion of him basically ignoring hers, and I’d argue that she hates her husband to the point of insanity.
We still need a lot of context to have clear answers but this is getting very interesting
My theory: Donovan is closer to his older son, so possibly he never meant for Damien to be born. Maybe him being born caused Donovan to push Melinda away.
I think she hates Donovan but loves Damian however, because Damian reminds her of Donovan she hates him at the same time
Someone mentioned on another post about a parallel with Todoroki’s mom in MHA, and I am really seeing it here. She loves her son, but hates her husband so much that she is broken; all of her feelings get mixed up.
The Scary Desmonds. So delicious.
I was left with so many questions.. like does she seriously hate him or just hates the fact that he clings on to his father more? Also why doesn’t she want her husband to find out about her going to the school? This is getting more interesting.
….*Say it!*
*M-Melinda Two-face…*
Mine conclusion after just reading this chapter, ” alright this woman definitely has some personality disorder and a lot of trauma”.
“My treasure, my curse” maybe she’s bipolar or multiple personalities? I think that maybe Donovan did an experiment on her and that’s why she acts the ways she does.
It’s possible Damian isn’t Donovan’s legitimate son.
Maybe is a matter of expectations vs reality. She could have been illusioned with the idea of marrying and having a child, maybe she always had strong maternal instincts and was in love with the image of a “perfect” high-class family just to realize later how all that was a lie sold to her when she married into the patriarchal Desmonds, who are all about preserving their familys honor, appearance and elite status and will never care about her desires as a woman. And then she saw how her kids were raised to be the same while becoming a chain that prevented her from leaving and a symbol of her oppression, so she started to resent them too.
Its pretty much todorokis mum before she hit his face with a 16 hit boiling kettle combo
My theory is that Donovan is an esper and her negative thoughts are not genuine. She is terrified of her husband and knows that he is an esper, so the conflicting thoughts are a self-defense mechanism that she developed to obfuscate what is actually going on in her head. She is so afraid of Donovan, that the mere mention of him is enough to trigger this mechanism.
Melinda might hate how thirsty Damian is to get his father’s attention since she’s existing. I wanna know the real score between Melinda and Donovan but it seems it was rough. I guess, she still loves her son. Idk, at first, I really saw her as a sweet person not just as a mom. I’m having second thoughts now. :<
Something tells me she really doesn’t love her husband or really wants JUST her son’s attention?
Hm. This family seems less good by the second.
The Forgers have better cohesion.