Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5691575-20130428005808/@comment-28252216-20160928140825

Serana has a tragic backstory if you think about it. She was turned into a vampire (perhaps agasiant her will), her father went insane trying to fufill an ancient prophecy, her mother grew to hate her father and tried to stop his efforts, she was locked into a box for a couple thousand years, when she finnally woke up nothing had changed, and she ultimately had to kill her father. It's probably one of, if not the worst, family stories in history. For me, this excuses her behavior (also, as Bilitis pointed out, she might have been a young woman when she went into the box).