[no the future for Ange is book beatings and only book beatings. that is so depressing... Charles, on the other hand, absolutely loathes everyone in his current family and feels distant at best toward his birth one, so the concept completely flies over his head.]

As I've said, desperate people do desperate things. If you need to act a certain way to gain sympathy if the only other option is eternal enslavement or a gruesome demise, would you not take it?