but I'm an advocate for painting in the white space when you're playing an established character, so why not. Hinawa was not a perfect saint of a mother.
She was an exhausted and abused sex worker who was also an impoverished single mother and that demographic is... statistically extremely unlikely to be anything resembling mentally okay.
She was also probably isolated from any and all support or even basic human kindness because Japan? Japan is not kind to single mothers, or children born out of wedlock, or people who need help.
Little-known facts: Japanese welfare offices have separate elevators from other offices in their buildings- explicitly so nobody has to suffer the shame of someone else seeing them getting off on the welfare floor. This is necessary because without that offer of privacy, people don't use those resources.
also things like heating, air conditioning, and cars are considered luxury items and social workers are empowered and expected to inspect the homes of their cases to make sure they don't have frivolous items
there's news stories of people on welfare receiving such things as gifts or inheritance and having their benefits revoked until the items are sold and the money runs out again
with regard to the goings-on in the dmc thread, I know from experience that when you're desperately starved for parental affection seeing it happen openly in front of you can trigger trauma responses
Hinawa was not a perfect saint of a mother.
This is necessary because without that offer of privacy, people don't use those resources.
and died of heat stroke in her home days later.