It's always a bummer when they do a cop-out with the antagonist. Why is it with kicked from the hero party stories with a male guild leader they usually stay an asshole and don't get redeemed, sometimes even becoming worse, but with these stories they often end up having some sappy back story that redeems them. It's so infantalizing to female characters that they can't just become and stay jerks, and always have to have some sort of redemption arc instead.