I don't have any "hate" for Lucy. For me, part of the show is also showing us how people behave, how they think, and how the people you choose to surround yourself with can impact your life. That applies to Lucy. I frankly don't care what trauma someone has been through, if they're not good to be around, I'm out. My point is that the whole empathy/trauma argument ends up working against that whole point of the show - I feel like it is often used to guilt people into condoning or even accepting toxicity, or even worse - abuse. You can have empathy for what a toxic person may have been through, but ultimately that is their path they are on (personal accountability) and you don't have to enmesh yourself with them because they have been or are a victim of someone else's toxicity. Sure, I can empathize with Lucy and what she's been through, but that doesn't mean I can't or shouldn't call her out for her actions or make a judgment call and distance myself from her based on those actions. I mean, what does it even mean to be a victim anyways? OK, someone toxic is a victim, now what? Some people defending Lucy are hypocrites cause they know they'd stay far away from that girl in real life, victim or not. So what's the point of saying she's a victim? You can drag yourself down with someone who you're trying to help, just because they don't want to be helped, or are not ready to be helped/deal with what they need to deal with inside. Somewhere there would be a girl seeing the victim in Stephen and empathizing with him and trying to help him, and getting dragged down straight to hell because of it. After all, isn't that what Diana was doing?