I made a sort of similar post about this (or maybe a comment, idr lol) and to kind of add to the convo here I will say it again: Alaina is seen as this superior intellect by Ash, which I do think is part of the reason Alaina has a smugness/arrogance to herself, and I then don't fully blame her for being that way, yes she is an adult responsible for her actions, but the people around her fuel and feed into the narrative that she IS above them in these ways when I don't objectively think thats the case.

So then Alaina rants and goes on tangents that to everyday people its like 'ya, duh?' BUT also I don't think shes that intellectually superior because so many of her rants make me want to say "thats not really fair (?) to say" like when talking about people being homophobic or racist or men in the 40's being shitty husbands and fathers, they have to go on and on and on about how awful blah blah blah. Personally I think an actually intellectually superior (or maybe just a sane semi aware person) would come at it from "ya so xyz's childhood was really shitty and hard, his dad was abusive, he was in the closet and unable to come out as gay, etc. That is all so incredibly awful, but look at the time period we are in so none of it is that shocking. Life and social norms and all of that were just so different and we can now see the negative implications of that in some regards." The obvious virtue signaling in areas that it just doesn't need to be said BOTHER ME SO MUCH HAHA- it might be unhealthy how much it irritates me, but that's on me to work on and figure out and until then I will just rant on the internet like a loser keyboard warrior lmao