#doomed anything competition but my opponent is any character from tpw series

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MAJOR the burning god spoilers!!

rin despised tearza for sacrificing her island and their people for her love of the red emperor. then she found out that that was a lie constructed by a very racist and patriarchal nikara, who wanted to deny women and speerlies power and agency. and then rin discovered that tearza sacrificed herself for the betterment of the entire world, knowing that the violence against speerlies would never end, that the entire world would not stop until the island was eradicated, and it was either the island or the genocide of nikan. and after nikan, who else would she have to slaughter? and THEN rin found out that the red emperor and tearza were in love, enough that the emperor immortalised her in stone as his white empress, but hated her enough to erase her people, her narrative, her name and agency. everything, only because she killed herself to save everyone else.

and this is what gets me about rin’s death. not that she actually died, but because she sacrificed herself for the same reasons tearza did. history and the moving in vicious cycles and ohhh im sick. so it wouldn’t be just her that died on that island, it would be everything that she’d accomplished. for all of rin’s satisfaction throughout tbg as she swept over the country with her southern army, grimly pleased that she could erase vaisra and the yin legacy and replace it with her own dreams, her speerly taint, its so highly implied that nikara won’t remember her for any of that. she’ll be the girl who killed herself because she was so in love with nezha, and do we really trust him to uphold her story when it threatens his rule, his duty?