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A bit about Arti’s characterization!

NSH wasn’t the type of parent to sit his kids down and explain the importance of kindness, and treating others how you want to be treated. None of that “sharing is caring” stuff they teach you in kindergarten. Nobody ever told Arti that it was wrong to be mean to other people. That was her dad’s job.

(I see this all the time, mostly in entitled guys. They never got told off for being jerks when they were kids because “boys will be boys”, and now they’re assholes. You have to teach kids right and wrong.)

Arti struggles with empathy. She can’t easily understand what other people are feeling, or how her actions might impact another person emotionally. She’s impulsive, and often acts before she thinks. When she lost her kids, she didn’t know how to process her grief. She doesn’t have the best emotional intelligence, so all those feelings were too much for her, and she went a tiny bit crazy. 

Basically, she reacted with so much violence because she didn’t have any sort of “hurting people is bad” notion ingrained in her moral code that would have stopped her.

It isn’t Arti’s fault that she’s always so quick to be violent, but that doesn’t make it okay. She’s an adult now, and it’s her responsibility to learn how to be a better person.