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onewomancitadel · 1 month ago

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It is fun and interesting when even heroes do bad things or do bad things with good intentions because it makes them more human and psychologically complex and makes more story happen. I'll never understand members of the audience who want to live in moral paradise where nothing ever goes wrong and only evil people ever do the wrong thing and once you kill all the evil people evil stops existing and to ever dare insinuate heroes could do wrong is blasphemy and "shifting the blame". I'm not playing that game. It's not about which character has the mandate of heaven.

I just don't get it and I will never get it. Is it fear? Is it a desire for absolute simplicity? Is it my fantasy bristling against theirs? Is it the inability to win an online argument about your character being the most moral and pure in the whole world? Because it seems to me it often comes down to "xyz villain is more evil, stop coping" which is like... okay... if you have a flat view of storytelling, sure (oh God, I used to get into so many arguments about daring to compare Cinder-Pyrrha and Jaune-Penny). Of course, the most fun thing about I/ronwood's character arc is that is exactly his whole deal in relation to Salem, and exactly how he justifies what he does, which is kind of ironic in how people miss the point. But I wasn't even vagueing about him in the first place! I just remembered why I love R/WBY because this is an actual idea explored in the story. I love storytelling.

#one of those posts that got away from me #this isn't even redemption arcs hour this is just plain heroes being a little naughty...#and this is why jaune is my favourite of the heroes... ruby is up there though I'm not quite as intensely obsessed #my reading of i/ronwood is that right up until that very last conversation with winter pre-betrayal #it was possible for him to turn it around #only he would have to sacrifice his authority; and even as a hero he revelled in that (which was not bad but exciting when he lorded it ove #jacques)#but also like look at this way: the eternal locked conflict of ozlem is crazy. wouldn't you do everything you could to stop it #it's not in want of escaping loneliness. he had winter and penny; they just weren't his peers - and he never respected qrow enough #they're too ideologically at odds even though ironically qrow is the most enduring of his team lol #and then there's that element that I think i/ronwood finally could revel in giving himself ultimate authority he had tried to deny himself #or to justify; and ultimately ozpin hadn't stopped salem. a new solution is needed #and he's right! that's the awesome thing!#in every way the most exhilarating thing about i/ronwood's fall is that in so many ways it perfectly mirrors cinder's one-day “rise”#if i/ronwood had a love interest I just know...

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