Dex-chan lover
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First I wanted to complain how every one is calling her a mass murderer instead of a serial killer, but then I remembered, that she ordered the slaughter of that village, so okay. Mass murderer it indeed is.
That was a rather great character build for a villian. Showed, that she started as a human being and that things got out of control. I very much like how she saw herself as heroine for a greater good. It started as a innocent wish and became warped by the emotional scare "lose of the most important being" and "Let's replace it", paired this abandonment issues and went out of spiral, because of her wish to be recognized and her own ego (that grew out of proportions, because of her boundless thirst for recognition.) I wish more characters would have been that well developed.
In my book it's okay to stop feel sympathy with somebody, who had none for her fellow humans and caused them grieve. Though I wonder if it was indeed necessary to give her that killing blow. Wasn't she also out of mana, "allies" and any means to escape/retaliate? Then again, could MC's party have know this? Perhaps not as she could have triggered some dangerous "last way out" magic, like a drug dealer in a shootout, that still didn't drop his gun and showed no signs of surrendering. As the means in a heated situation, it's okay, but if they simply wanted to pass judgement... But I believe that's the whole point behind MC's monologue in the end and how he can't stop samurai girl anymore. The author really cared about this arc.
That was a rather great character build for a villian. Showed, that she started as a human being and that things got out of control. I very much like how she saw herself as heroine for a greater good. It started as a innocent wish and became warped by the emotional scare "lose of the most important being" and "Let's replace it", paired this abandonment issues and went out of spiral, because of her wish to be recognized and her own ego (that grew out of proportions, because of her boundless thirst for recognition.) I wish more characters would have been that well developed.
In my book it's okay to stop feel sympathy with somebody, who had none for her fellow humans and caused them grieve. Though I wonder if it was indeed necessary to give her that killing blow. Wasn't she also out of mana, "allies" and any means to escape/retaliate? Then again, could MC's party have know this? Perhaps not as she could have triggered some dangerous "last way out" magic, like a drug dealer in a shootout, that still didn't drop his gun and showed no signs of surrendering. As the means in a heated situation, it's okay, but if they simply wanted to pass judgement... But I believe that's the whole point behind MC's monologue in the end and how he can't stop samurai girl anymore. The author really cared about this arc.