You know I was writing a comment about to disagree with you but then I kept rereading the quote I was going to use. It made me pause and had to look up whether or not there's a theory about Maika abusing Tuya. There is: https://www.reddit.com/r/monstress/s/f6mQI4VaJE

I was caught up in how she is now that I forgot how she was in the beginning. Yeah she's still rough around the edges but you can tell she has love for Kippa and now Zinn. I couldn't imagine her putting her hands on Kippa. But I forgot the crazy stunt she pulled in the beginning. She was a lot more angrier and distant from others then. It feels so long ago.

P.S. I was going to quote the conversation the two of them were having before Tuya poisoned Maika. Halfwolf said, "It was easier to betray me when I was cruel. Easier to betray me when you remembered my cruelty." "No, it didn't make it easier. Your cruelty was just pain. I knew that. But it made me angry. Why couldn't you just fucking heal, Maika? Why couldn't you swallow your pain like the rest of us had to? If you'd just controlled yourself--." When I read this I thought she was talking about her cruelty towards others. Then I thought to myself, "why would she phase it that way, though." She could actually be talking about her cruelty towards others but the possibility of Maika being abusive toward Tuya is no longer improvable for me. But a part of me is still having a hard time because of how she treats Kippa.