#the brigade’s biggest success was milleuda inspiring delita to fight for a peasant revolution himself

[delitaheiral]

Thinking about how Milleuda isn’t just a proud revolutionary, but someone who has lost all hope of that revolution actually happening, to the point it’s turned her defeatist and suicidal. Like when you first encounter her at the brigands’ den and she says it’s over, even before Ramza’s party arrives. When she immediately follows that up with “it ought not have been like this. my brother was too soft. too indecisive”, implying that she’s disagreed with Wiegraf’s rule for a while but was powerless to change it. Afterwards, when you defeat her and she doesn’t put up a fight at the idea of dying on the battlefield, only at the thought of being denied “the mercy of an honorable death”. At the Lenalia plateau, when she refuses to preemptively surrender, reiterating that she just wants to die a warrior’s death. And it doesn’t even click how bad things were until you listen to the tavern rumors and learn that 3000 brigade members have died, with another 700 being taken captive. Milleuda has watched their whole resistance collapse in on itself, watched all her comrades be slain and disrespected by the aristocracy, knowing that they failed to put even the slightest dent in the nobles’ rule… no wonder she was ready to face death herself.