Who says you're not attached to your new team at all, or know for sure you're having that much trouble adjusting, or that your old team's FO even wants you? If you don't know whether you'll get stuck until you transform, then a certain amount of it is emotional guesswork.
Idk, I think we just have different perspectives on this, and it would take an actual fic to see if we'd agree or not. People and cultures convince themselves of weird shit all the time, so I could 100% buy a culture that had the mindset that people failing to transform correctly were doing it to themselves and deserved whatever they got, just like I bought into Star Trek's murder-happy Mirrorverse, even though it's a shit way to run a society. I can believe a lot as long as the author does a good job constructing it so it's internally logical for the culture. But I do think that no matter what there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief necessary to make stuff on that level work, and you're right that it could go the emotionally dark but logically nonsensical way quite easily.
Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation
Who says you're not attached to your new team at all, or know for sure you're having that much trouble adjusting, or that your old team's FO even wants you? If you don't know whether you'll get stuck until you transform, then a certain amount of it is emotional guesswork.
Idk, I think we just have different perspectives on this, and it would take an actual fic to see if we'd agree or not. People and cultures convince themselves of weird shit all the time, so I could 100% buy a culture that had the mindset that people failing to transform correctly were doing it to themselves and deserved whatever they got, just like I bought into Star Trek's murder-happy Mirrorverse, even though it's a shit way to run a society. I can believe a lot as long as the author does a good job constructing it so it's internally logical for the culture. But I do think that no matter what there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief necessary to make stuff on that level work, and you're right that it could go the emotionally dark but logically nonsensical way quite easily.