@Flins_Lore I was on team Holy Shit Rerir So Cool (I’m a sinner glazer thru and thru) at first but that fell flat so fast during his lore quests. I’m glad they included themes like these so explicitly but it does mean i will be burying myself in rewrite fanfics
@Flins_Lore Yeah i was just bored by him. The entire point is that he’s nobody special, selfish, kind of stupid, like the average person working for any fascist genocidal party/state. They’ve successfully made him boring. It’s good writing but not conducive to a fanbase
@VulcanLewi23151 @Rerir2theMoon he’s a (imo boringly on the nose) depiction of real life fascist pawns.. historically those people are often capable of realising theyve fucked up. It isn’t an excuse and perhaps shouldnt be “forgiven” per se but they can be redeemed, go forward doing good
@Rerir2theMoon only partially breaking out when it affects someone you personally know is also very common for people indoctrinated into extremist violent ideologies irl
@Rerir2theMoon Right, his entire plot is about the sheer horrific lengths to which brainwashing can take you. He even has repeated moments where he knows somewhere within him that it’s wrong but he’s re-indoctrinating himself because of what he’s been raised to think.
@faegoth_ Surtalogi aspd is canon as far as I’m concerned. It’s one of the most realistic depictions I’ve seen actually. Obviously most of us aren’t flying through space nuking planets but, you know, the whole “no difference between kindness and malice” is so real