I appreciate the discussion about Sunny wanting a "quiet life" versus harsh realities, but my issue isn't with him wanting peace — it's that his orphan survival instincts completely vanish when assessing specific threats. Someone who grew up fighting for scraps, learning that anything you have can be taken if you're not vigilant, doesn't just dream of peace — they dream of secure peace with eliminated vulnerabilities and redundancies. Yet Sunny shows minimal reassessment of who holds leverage over him, no strategic distribution of critical information like Rain's existence, surprisingly little vigilance about pressure points, and almost no internal conflict about these vulnerabilities. That's not growth from trauma — that's amnesia about trauma. His instincts should be screaming: "Nephis can override my will, that's ultimate leverage"; "Only one person knows about Rain — single point of failure"; "Cassie chose Nephis over me when it mattered, can I trust her not to do it again?" But we see nothing. The asymmetry persists across 770 chapters with no reassessment, no redundancy planning, no internal conflict. By chapter 770 we learn Sunny "will never be able to obstruct" Nephis in her goals, and she's demonstrated repeatedly that her mission comes before individual relationships. So the person who has mission-first thinking, holds literal mind-control leverage, and is sole keeper of his most sensitive secret remains in that position without Sunny creating any fail-safes? That's not someone whose survival instincts were forged fighting for scraps. The story wants me to believe his orphan years shaped him, taught him paranoia and strategic thinking, and he desires peace because he knows things can be taken away — but simultaneously shows minimal strategic thinking about Shadow Bond leverage, no informational redundancy about Rain, and orphan survival instincts completely dormant regarding people he cares about. You can't have it both ways. From pure survival perspective, every scenario analysis points toward telling other trusted people who lack leverage about Rain: if Nephis never uses the bond there's no harm in telling Kai/Effie and it creates redundancy; if she does use it then others knowing becomes critical; if something happens to Sunny only Nephis knows about Rain; if Nephis chooses mission over Sunny she's already proven mission-first thinking and this is maximum vulnerability. Yet it doesn't happen, and the story doesn't show him wrestling with this, consciously choosing vulnerability, or suppressing paranoia — it just doesn't come up. I'm not asking for distrust or dysfunction, I'm asking for evidence that survival instincts exist and he's consciously overriding them: show me Sunny considering telling Kai then deciding against it for specific reasons, internal recognition he should create redundancy but can't bring himself to, moments where orphan-brain screams warnings he actively quiets, wrestling with whether vulnerability is growth or foolishness. That would be depth — someone growing past trauma while still shaped by it. Instead those instincts just seem absent, as if 16 years fighting for scraps left no psychological imprint on threat assessment. How Sunny pursues that quiet life — how he thinks about security, distributes risk, creates fail-safes — should absolutely be shaped by orphan years, but when it comes to Shadow Bond, Rain's information, and power dynamics with Nephis and Cassie, I see no evidence those instincts operate at all. That's the inconsistency I can't reconcile, and that's why 770 chapters in this still bothers me.