I'm just randomly thinking about No Straight Roads and its 7 deadly sins style bosses again and how their motivations were all extremely sympathetic but corrupted by fame
DJ Subatomic Supernova, Pride, who acted like he was smarter and better than anyone else and is then revealed to be terrified of being forgotten and that's why he tried to broadcast his music to the whole universe
Sayu, Sloth, a bunch of children who became too famous too fast and had to hide behind their creation
DK West, Envy, who let himself be ruled by his envy over his brother's successes
Yinu and her mother, Greed, trying to fulfill the dream they shared with Yinu's late father and in the process losing sight of what that dream meant for them in the first place (I cried during their post fight cutscene)
Neon J, Gluttony, the toymaker who tried to spread joy to make up for the things he saw in war, until his vision became mass produced and soulless
Eve, Lust, who was desperately trying to connect with someone, anyone who might understand her and the way she was seeing things, and who felt abandoned and betrayed by the one she opened herself to the most but can't stop herself from trying to get him back (this is the one I keep thinking about, it's stuck in my head forever)
Tatiana, Wrath, who can't let go of the anger she felt over her own failure as a musician and who lashes out at everyone who reminds her of it, to the point of becoming an oppressor as she rises in power
The way that every single NSR member can provoke this immediate reaction of "we need to beat you up now" but by the end of it I can't hate a single one of them, the characters in this game are absolutely fantastic