Talk:Nutcracker/@comment-10733658-20150510051717

So all jokes aside, I think she likely was a prostitute, at least for a while.

Worse, it looks like maybe she was a child prostitute/sexually abused. If you look at her flashback, while she's thinking about needing money there is a panel of several male figures in shadow with scary grins. If I recall correctly, there was some discussion about how the word she uses for "pretty" can also involve purity or cleanliness. Her overly-sexualized appearance/behavior and sexual violence towards men also fit within that framework.

Ishida makes us feel sorry for another villain. ;_;