I’ve been thinking about lests death in a more open minded manner and the only thing ive gotten out of it is that his death was a symbol of acceptance and him embracing his weakness, he started off as very insecure, greedy, selfish and VERY arrogant however as the story progressed further and the environment around him became more chaotic and opponents that were stronger than him came out of the wood works on a random tuesday, we see how he becomes very quite and observant, we see how he’s easily picked on by rigr and how its later revealed that behind all the arrogance he’s just a child that’s full of shame and insecurity.
Now we dont really know where all this shame comes from but its always been clear that lests was open minded in the sense that he changed with the environment around him, at first he was against the idea of breaking the laws of the first but he was literally just scared of losing control and security of himself and the territory he had because it meant that he’d have to face parts of himself that he so desperately avoided by putting on a facade.
In chapter 105 we see that facade literally slip and I mean it SLIPPED and we saw the real lest but as usual he quickly took control, he’s someone that obsesses over stability and in his last moments he was confronted again by urd to not go outside because it’s not wise since ky luc’s presence vanished, lest then argues back saying ky luc wasn’t a pushover and admits that he was very stronger and that it means that the opponent is powerful but he never for a second says that he could win, it implies so yes but his next words are “I will not be careless” and it holds a lot of weight.
First of all its a big “fuck you and your fuckass brother youre full of shit” to urd because of the way he blindly follows rigr and completely forgot that he’s the leader of an entire race, second of all its him acknowledging that anything can happen including his death, he knew that there were wiser options but for the first time he put others first rather than himself. Third of all, its his final form and the realization that urd is just as trifling as rigr. And finally it’s an emphasis on his ego death, he was no longer acting on ego, it was just lest in his purest and realest form.
His death was him welcoming his shame and accepting that weakness isn’t a bad thing if it means that he can die for his people. He says “im a third progenitor” and in this scenario he meant it as sort of a reminder that he’s a leader and governor of an entire country meaning he’s responsible and HAS to take action, lest revealed his own morals and principles at the end. He didnt perceive the death of a thousand vampires as a “good” thing the way urd or ferid do, he saw bigger meaning in it and obviously believed that their lives had significance, he believed that their lives were so significant that it was unfair for them to die in such an unfair manner, he believed that they deserved peaceful deaths.
Lests development was actually great and i enjoyed the way his death was executed, in the end his weakness wasn’t his strength, his strength wasn’t his weakness, his strength was his passion and despite it not being enough lest is now his true self so there’s that. That was his victory in the end, he won in his perspective and MY perspective because the point was proven; he went out to there to prove a point and bitch did he not just die for his people like he wanted to so a win is a win
And with that being said yall can be quiet about him going out sad or it being his “karma”, its not karma if ferid deserved it this fandom often forgets that krul and ferid started chaos which led to the death of innocent humans and vampires so is it really karma or do you just not read and mind you the shit doesn’t even sound coherent cause when you look at lests character and ferids character it just sounds stupid because you niggas are missing the entire point and not reading properly
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