Originally posted by: EkPaheli
This is because the writers are changing canon of S1 and don’t care to even try to make sense of it. If they even make a passing remark that Mandira turned evil once she found out Mihir was married and she ended up having Karan as a means to make him divorce Tulsi and pick her it would make sense. But they never did that either.
Per the vague thread spun here, Mandira is as much a victim of circumstances as Mihir is. She slept with him before marrying him and while morally it was a taboo and still is, it’s not exactly the same as intentionally sleeping with a married man and making him cheat on his wife. Tulsi accepting Karan is a big deal regardless of the circumstances under which he was conceived but herein if she’s raised him from day one then the act in and of itself shouldn’t be used as a weapon or an Ace card to win any and all arguments. Karan ideally shouldn’t have even known that he had a different mother as shouldn’t have any of the other kids but here no one was acting like this was news. So essentially Karan was raised here with the absolute knowledge and his parentage and made to see how Tulsi’s acceptance is such a big favour done to him. He’s lived and grown up feeling like he has to earn that acceptance and pay Tulsi back for it every day. Tulsi feels shocked to hear him saying she was wrong to slap his son, she gives an earful to Nandini about the slap episode but doesn’t tell Damini a single word about how she was wrong too and that was such a crass thing to say especially coming from a woman.
So when Nandini is angry at Tulsi that anger perhaps just doesn’t stem from the way she feels her trauma was dismissed for Rio to come to SN or how her son was also ignored for a guy who barely stepped into SN, it’s also her years of pent up frustration regarding the way Karan has been treated by the family coming to the fore. She perhaps feels Karan overcompensates because he feels obligated and like he owes Tulsi for accepting him whereas Gautam can do anything and everything but Tulsi wouldn’t call him or his wife out because she’s being partial to her own blood.
If Karan was raised in this family since birth and yet knows he is Mandira's son then probably that is the biggest proof that he has been discriminated against in this family,
It could even be that Karan was not brought back immediately at birth but after Ansh was taken away by Aditya Gujaral (as per this cannon I dont think any middlemen like Raj Bhasin or that Vikram exist and I doubt Harsh exists either), so with Gautam and Ansh both gone, Karan was the only male child of Mihir in vicinity (despite all these talks of equality, Viranis do prefer sons over daughters) so they got him back but with a regular reminder on the greatness they exhibited having an illegitimate child accepted
It might not even be direct taunts but just indirect lines to keep him in place. Gautam was given away despite being the legitimate child hence he has all the rights to whine, but Karan was taken in despite being illegitimate hence he should always be sacrificing. I dont think Karan is even holier than thou this season, it is rather his upbriging that he can not have anything for himself first. He is moving extra mile just to prove himself. If what Parth told yesterday was correct then he is not just doing that himself but even forcing his children to. He decided to not take the property, fine that is his choice, but why force Parth to do that? Parth was selected by Ba probably because back then she felt he was the best (or he was the only great great grandson), so Karan cant force him leave that property.
While this no way justifies what Parth did or is doing, but that of course could be a reason, assuming he has seen since childhood that everytime his father forces him, his siblings and mother to ignore their wishes so that Viranis could be given (Maybe that is why Nandani didnt have enough money to buy a phone while Karan was giving money to Viranis for running the household). He doesnt want that, he wants to free himself from this self loathing stuff just because his grandfather had an ONS under amnesia and then after regaining his memory had his father accepted. I mean come on that is the basic minimal you would accept from a decent man (I am not counting Tulsi here, she obviously did a great sacrifice accepting some other woman's child but that cant be the reason for Parth to be forced to give everything to Tulsi)
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