#9 rings of WC character hell and at the frosty cold center of Tartarus is Skystar

[bonefall]

i like to think that clear sky delusioned himself with the “he does this because he loves you”. like he’s a fucking asshole but he genuinely believes that what he’s doing is correct and thus, from his point of view he thinks he’s doing everyone a favour.

he believes what he’s doing is correct / best thus giving himself the justification of having the right to make it happen by any means necessary

clear sky has bad intentions and actions. however, he believes he’s correct and just. and when he believes that his his actions are correct he assumed his intentions are good as well.

am i making sense here or?

You are, that's what I'm saying

Clear Sky always thinks he's right. Of course he does. He's absolutely incapable of good self reflection and rationalizes every reactionary choice he makes.

He hurts you and says you deserved it because you hurt him first in some abstract way. He's not "attacking" he's "defending". Everything he does is "for the best" even if that means killing, maiming, assaulting, controlling, or exiling someone.

This character is deeply, deeply insecure. His ego is fragile and he will prevent it from breaking in any way he can. He will say he's "playing the villain for the greater good" as a way of having power over an irrational fear that he will lose control over everything.

And he will hurt you, he will scream at you, and he will control your entire life so that you don't "scare" him.

The sympathy that the Erins give to abusers continues to be profoundly alarming to me. Abusers are insecure, fearful people terrified of not being in control at all times-- that exact trait that they keep using to say he "wasnt so bad" while he was murdering people.

Unlike Bramblestar, Clear Sky has a body count, which continues to grow with every book.

He would be an excellent villain, in a good series Clear Sky would be a fascinating look into the psyche of a dictator, but ultimately they normalize his mindset. They say that BECAUSE he has insecurities similar to abusers, that makes him worth saving, means he was, deep down, "Good All Along."

And that is why I think he is the worst character the series has ever produced.