Broken AU is terrible, and here's why.
Content Warnings: Talks of Genocide and mass murder of adult and child moons.
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Why is the fandom so willing Jupiter and Saturn to massacre their moons for Earth? Why do something so deliberate and cruel?
What The Moons did was awful and disproportionate, but the Gas Giants' responses were way worse. It wasn't an act of passion, blinded by grief, it was conscious and hateful.
Earth would be disgusted if he knew what happened, his redemption would ring so hollow like it didn't matter in the end because he still died after all that hard work and introspection on himself. The Therapy session, the roleplay and all of Mercury's efforts go to waste.
I was annoyed that Neptune was portrayed as uncaring about his moons being killed. It was confirmed Neptune loved his moons, he remembered them all. They were confirmed in canon that they were little children. They knew diddly squat about what was going on.
Can you imagine killing your own Children and the children of your neighbourhood in such fashion after the child you are obsessed with got hurt?
You can't, can you, the mere thought repulses you to your soul.
Saturn never once indicated that he thinks so lowly of Titain, only liking him for THAT reason. It reinforces the idea that moons are toys, and decorations to be played with or destroyed on a whim.
As for Callisto and Io, there is nothing worse than betrayal. To have a planet you orbited around and thought the world of, suddenly turn around and murder you like you meant nothing is betrayal and poor Io was terrified and core broken that Jupiter could do that so easily and with calculated intent.
Callisto was also betrayed and in the horror of what was happening comforted Io so he wouldn't die alone, and scared out of his mind.
What Jupiter and Saturn did was textbook Genocide. I cannot stress that enough.
The deliberate and calculated destruction of every moon with only 4 survivors out of 300 moons is horrific.
All Jupiter and Saturn's actions did was prove Ganymede and Europa correct in how little they matter to the planets.
The moons deserved better.
Good art can't save a bad story.
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I needed to say my piece on it. If I misjudged the whole thing, please let me know.
Nicely.