#The finale so clearly emphasized the theme of choice!!! Belos’ hallucinations aren’t to set up some epiphany they’re to set up his refusal | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sepublic · 11 months ago

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i love it when a villain is given positive traits not to make them look better, but to make them look worse

no "aren't they actually nice deep down? don't you feel sympathy towards them?", but "wait so this asshole was capable of good all along? and actively chose not to do it because it gets in the way of their goal / because they don't see this specific group of people as deserving of the same treatment / because they're too deep in the lies they told themself to justify it / etc? they're evil not because they're incapable of anything else, but because they choose to?"

#Yeah I’m reblogging this for Belos #Like he CAN feel empathy and guilt and he can perfectly understand how people think and behave and want and hurt #But all of that is meaningless in the sense that he’ll just wallow in his own self pity as he continues to do the exact same thing #The finale so clearly emphasized the theme of choice!!! Belos’ hallucinations aren’t to set up some epiphany they’re to set up his refusal #to improve despite being fully capable #People got salty the show recognized this not as sympathetic or sad but actually just pathetic selfish and banal #Anyhow from a general standpoint I love this trope #the owl house #emperor belos #Philip wittebane #reblog

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