#i love a downward spiral. fucked up evil creature experiences remorse

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@amicablesprite re: hoffman in the later movies on a doylist level the shift in his character from IV to VII is definitely a result of different writers with different (and sometimes worse) understandings of him but watsonically i think you can definitely make a case for him genuinely just slowly going insane. he’s seen and taken part in so much death and horror it’s taken its toll and eventually something load-bearing ended up cracking. like all the stuff people say is out of character happens after the glass coffin anyway it feels so obvious that that was the tipping point…..he lost his sister and then his morals and then his last thread of human connection and now he’s finally lost his mind. and it rules