Between mavrika and raiden I really don’t like both characters for their design choices but I can say is Mavrika felt like an actual archon who took the role of a leader better then raiden
Like yeah mavrika trailer was cringe her outfit is awful, the motorcycle coukdve been better and her skin SHOUKDVE HAD MORE MELANIN but I’ll give props to her for even tho she had ALOT of burdens and had the pressure and accepted that she had to die for her people she still took her role as an archon
Raiden while at the end she did get bigger I don’t like how she handled things. Sure it build character but I’m not a big fan of that kind of trope personally and I know that a inspo for a specific Japanese myth but even then I think with her deisgn it made me more disinterested in her. Losing her sister must’ve been hard yes and losing almost all her friends too- just I don’t really like the she decided to go to mediation flr a long period of time and then forced her ppl to being secluded
I get what she trying to do just I felt that even tho I understood I did not agree with it and it made her look less of a rational archon leader who even tho been through it is still there for her people. She dips and as stressful as her situation was…furina literally had to play the archin act for 5000 years with the pressure of trying to be an actual archon…furina went through hell and still did her job as best as she could and in a fashion that she knew and that type of leadership is what I expect from archons
To me raiden still has a lot to redeem herself and she should live that her letting her own feeling did a lot of damage to her people. Leaders can be stressed and grief and be in really unfortunate situations but never it should cost their whole ppl lives I think she CAN be a good leader jusy her previous actions shown that at the moment she was not what inazuma needed