Go mom!

This is an odd situation. Mom’s basically right about Sanda, and about Yagiuda’s effect on him - Sanda really has been conned into being submissive to adults who mean him harm. But at this point, Sagiuda isn’t one of them. He’s sincere. But that’s part of the problem.

Sanda’s earnest and naive and sort of willfully ignorant. He’s not very good at thinking about difficult things and he’d rather not do it. And Yagiuda provided some crucial feedback to him early on - he was the first adult that Sanda decided to go ahead and trust anyway, when he really shouldn’t have. And just sort of coincidentally, Yagiuda really ended up more or less worthy of that trust, so Sanda could just ignore all the difficult stuff and go back to being a dumb kid and get away with it, and he did.

But now that’s become a pattern. Whenever he’s faced with an adult who means him harm, he wants to go ahead and trust them and submit to them so he can just keep on being a dumb kid. And it’s not working out for him like it did with Yagiuda, but he’s so busy being a dumb kid that he’s not aware of that.

So it’s arguably a good thing that mom is stepping in to show him that some people just cannot be trusted ever and really need to be dealt with fully. It’s just sort of unfortunate that she’s directing that against someone who actually can be trusted, rather than one of the many (most notably the headmaster) who really do need to be dealt with… with extreme prejudice.

Curious to see how this plays out…