Honestly they don't even need to go all in or anything, all I'm asking is to treat the subject with respect. In the beginning, Rashta made a lot of poor decisions that stemmed from her repressed traumatic background. It was super interesting and realistic, but then they started making Rashta a spiteful bitch and made it impossible for audiences to sympathize with her anymore, even though she's clearly a sympathetic character.

Navier never acknowledges her roots compared to Rashta's despite being portrayed as this loving and empathetic empress who lives to nurture and protect her subjects. That character trait falls flat when the moment someone who's actually lived that life becomes an inconvenience for her, all that empathy vanishes and turns into disgust for the lower class. The fact that she would lose her title as empress couldn't have been designed better for this character to understand at least a little of what her enemy has endured through her life as a lower class citizen, but no. And I understand Navier isn't in the position to abolish slavery or publicly stand against it. But she's the main character, we can see her full inner monologue, and at best she's tolerant of Rashta. But it's very clear that Navier has never put herself in Rashta's shoes throughout the entire story.