Whatever else you want to say about her, it's very clear to me what Smee's parenting style (if you want to call it that) was. Chantal would act out or fuck up or have a tantrum, and Smee would scream at her. But she'd scream at her as she was cleaning up the mess Chantal had made or bailing her out of trouble or whatever. Chantal has never faced an actual consequence in her life, that's obvious. No matter what she did, the only "consequence" to her actions was a screaming match with mom. (And contrary to the "beat your kids more" meme, I think this got physical more than once -- at least until Chantal learned to fight back.) Once she learned to endure that (and maybe even shut it down by fighting back either physically or verbally) then she never really had to worry about any situation she put herself in. She also figured out how to use that to bully people into submission proactively to keep them in line or get what she wanted, which meant she didn't have to do much about anything else at all and thus avoid all adult responsibilities.
This makes sense for a 17 year old single mom (and let's be real, the odds Grams was a better mom to Smee than Smee to Chins, are not fantastic. So it's not like the hatchling Gunt had any healthy conflict resolution modeled for her from any of these women. Just pudding cups).
Anyway. She's streaming now and just ate a tuna sandwich she clearly did not make at home (perfect toast-marks on the bread, and the filling and lettuce just looked like something you'd get in a cafeteria). I believe it was from Cora's, which makes a tuna sandwich that looks a lot like that, and from which Chantal has ordered before (they do a lot of fancy breakfasts). It's also among the more expensive places to eat at for that sort of thing (think of a super nice iHOP with fresh fruit cut into flowers everywhere or Denny's with actual chefs and real potatoes in their hashbrowns). She either ordered in or stopped for takeout. Perhaps on the way back from somewhere. But no, she was BIZ-ee omg, you guize, she takes one night off and you all make stuff up.
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