What I mean: People give Mylo shit for being mean, say he’s an unsympathetic character, or even that he deserved to die, and while he definitely shouldn’t have picked on Powder the way he did, his interactions were more complex than to be worth a complete dismissal of his entire character because he was, ultimately, right.
Powder wasn’t ready for jobs; she actively froze up, had weapons that consistently didn’t work (until the very, very end), and refused to follow Vi’s orders (which literally got Mylo, Claggor, and Vander killed in episode 3). Taking her with them was dangerous and Vi shouldn’t have done it, (something she doesn’t even learn until it’s put in a way that frames it as a risk to her sister), but she was blinded by favoritism towards Powder.
Mylo shouldn’t have expressed his frustration by insulting and belittling her; she wasn’t to blame for her sister’s bad calls about when she could be brought along, and she was too young to fully comprehend the danger she was putting herself and others in by coming. That said, his concerns were valid and true and went largely ignored and/or mocked, which is absolute bullshit.
Update: I should also mention the fact that it’s straight up canon he had no other outlet for expressing these concerns. He literally sat down with Vi when (he thought) Powder wasn’t around to tell Vi, to the best of his ability as a not exactly verbose teenage boy, he thought Powder coming on jobs was a problem. Vi’s response was to completely dismiss him, even going so far as to turn the conversation to his flaws, with the implication he had no room to talk, as though he was just as much of a drag on the team as Powder when, in reality, he was shown to not only be a competent fighter, but also the only one with valuable skills like lock-picking. He literally could not reason with Vi. What else was left?
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