Cares so much that she abandoned her daughter at birth with a hag of a grandmother who favors boys over girls. Cares so much that she used her daughter's suffering as a lever against her second brother-in-law's cruel wife. Cares so much that she openly and blatantly treats her niece infinitely better than she treats her actual daughter. Cares so much that she had her daughter brutally beaten military-style for pranking a bunch of teenage bitch bullies. Cares so much that she constantly belittles and insults her daughter, to her face, in front of everyone up to and including the fucking Emperor. God save us all from such a "caring" mother. (No, I don't care what her excuses and justifications are; there are ways to achieve her goals that didn't include treating her daughter like absolute shit.)

Her mother has a lot to make up for, but she's not really a bad person. She knows she's mostly to blame for abandoning her daughter and leaving her to be "raised" by her aunt and grandmother, but at the same time she's too prideful to admit fault and she takes out a lot of misplaced frustration on her daughter. But there are moments when you can tell that she genuinely does care.