Antoine De Sade - Blog Posts

Honestly, what particularly breaks my heart even more about Domi and her character is just the… almost thoughtless, lighthearted way Domi’s family are hurting her. Their treatment of her is depicted different from how bad families are normally depicted in media. Veronica and Antoine don’t seem to go out of their way to hurt Domi or put much effort into persecuting her, they just don’t really think of her at all until she happens to be there at the moment. In a way, it probably hurts Domi even more, the way she is completely invisible to them.

They don’t consciously ignore her or insult her - and it’s exactly these little, dismissive moments that hurt the most. For her siblings, Domi doesn’t even seem worth any kind of attention, whether positive or negative. 

Louis may have been tossed aside and erased from the family tree, but their treatment of Domi isn’t much different except for the fact they at least acknowledge her as a De Sade.

And it’s something I just - well, appreciate seems like the wrong word, but these inconspicious kinds of abuse are rarely shown and properly adressed or taken seriously in media, they aren’t dramatic, grand moments that everyone from a mile away can recognize as abusive. Instead, they are quiet, almost blink-and-you-miss-it, yet just as much hurtful, and sometimes even more messy to deal with because it takes people so much longer to realize and recognize it as harmful.

And the perhaps lack of ‘malice’ with which the De Sade siblings treat Domi makes it just worse, the way they keep smashing and shattering her confidence without a single care in the world. 

It’s a silent killer, one Domi had been suffering under for years.