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Martha’s constant corrections of Suki’s word choice is more than annoying, it’s rude. The girl has obviously got some sort of tic that causes her to substitute similar sounding words. It’s not ignorance and she hasn’t asked for help with it. She’s literally the only person who has shown any interest in Martha or demonstrated any caring for her at all and all Martha can do is constantly correct her.

Martha needs a kick in the pants. She's so annoyingly passive. She's incredibly self involved. She doesn't "give" or "help" others as an expression of caring, she does it entirely to satisfy her own sense of self-worth. Other people are meaningless to her, except as a means of self validation.

The writing is a little clumsy and obvious, but I’m interested in the characters and where the story will go

First chapter impression: Annoying main character, but promising to have a satisfying character arc. Set up to be emotionally needy, desperately useful in hopes of some scraps of appreciation from anyone, endlessly taken for granted, and that's only when people bother to notice her at all. Militantly anti-romance, perhaps because that's how she avoids rejection.