I was wondering why I don’t have as strong of a hate for Liliana as others, and I realized it’s because she is so much like my mom. My mom is genuinely kind and loving and accepting and never wants harm to anyone, BUT she is someone who is completely clueless about the world and all the awful realities that are actually happening, and just doesn’t want to hear about or see anything bad…I can really see that in Liliana, I really feel like she isn’t being willfully manipulative or anything, I think she’s being manipulated. It all just breaks my heart. She wants so badly for what she’s doing to be good because it HAS TO BE. She can’t see it any other way. It goes against her view of the world, the foundations of her faith. It would mean she is fundamentally wrong. This holy peace and warmth that Predathos projects just hits so close to that “god is good” belief. That idea that casualties are meaningful because they are en route to a better world and that it’s sad but it’s not a deal breaker because the ends will justify the means. How two people, mother and daughter, can so strongly want the world to be better but have come to two completely different ways that they are sure will fix things. Faith vs action
