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People complained about how dismal Raphtalia's life was portrayed in the anime, but honestly they changed that a good bit. In the manga she took her parents' words too much to heart and became unable to stop smiling, a broken, hopeless smile but a smile nonetheless. Even when they came in, picked Rifana up by the arm and shook her, cursed at her for dying on them and tossed her to the side she remained smiling. Only when she was told that the village had been completely destroyed, every last building toppled so there's nowhere left to return did all the cumulative trauma destroy that grimace. And in the early chapters it took her a LONG time to smile again.
Frankly I feel like her parents' lesson was a bad one. You need to teach your kids to cry when it's needed as much as you need to teach them to smile.
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