#me thirty chapters later: SO IN THE WORDS OF KARL MARX

[thedawningofthehour]

While by this point I think everyone knows my stance towards Draxxum and how I want them to shatter his illusions in the cruelest way possible because of what he did to the boys, I can't ignore the fact that he has a point, and that if it weren't for him brainwashing my Otello von Ryan, I would be totally on his side.

Knowing you, with all the emphasis being put on the movement, i dont think this would be the kind of story that end with 'despite everything he had a point, oh well!Let's go back to the status quo!' it would be cool that once Donnie gets back to his family and has recovered from the brainwashing he continued with the movement, but this time as he proposed to Draxxum that time, eating the rich and empowering the workers with the help of his family. The only thing that worries me are the fascists and radicals that Galois promised to conquer the surface.

One of my favorites tropes is 'villain who has a fucking point.' I feel like that's a major thing in what makes a narrative compelling.

And in the interest of not making Draxum 'the radical who gets cancelled to make a point about centrism', he absolutely tried to do things the more 'moderate' way. Centrism is what drove him to this point. He didn't start off wanting to kill the humans. He wanted to avoid them. The humans started colonizing New York and drove the Yokai underground. He wanted to take control of the planet and save them from their own recklessness. He was told he couldn't do that. He wanted to mutate them all. The Council forbade him from doing so. The entire way he's losing people he cares about, watching innocent people suffer from problems he knows he could fix. What else is there at this point? It's either do the horrendous thing or wait and watch his people die. There is no longer room for moderation.