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Ren Rants about a white man (Lucio)

I've been replaying a lot of the routes and honestly, I sit there and I go "this is good, I enjoy it, but it could be better" and then I remember I have a keyboard, imagination, and an ao3 account but BAH I'll worry about rewrites later, what I'm ranting about today is Lucio-- not THAT.

Before I start, I will say all of what is stated is my own opinion and you are more than welcome to disagree, and if you, yourself like Lucio! He is not a bad character by any means, it's how his character is HANDLED that I am pointing out. Narratively speaking, in a sense. I always encourage open dialogue, so feel free to ask questions! And another note, this is not to shame anyone who likes Lucio either!

Gall, this guy. I can't even begin to understand WHY he is a romancable character.

If you are like me and have played his route last, you see exactly how much his deplorable actions impact ALL of the characters, especially Asra and Muriel. Also another note, Asra is much stronger than I am, if I saw someone I loved so deeply that went to creamtorium island palooza and dug through ASHES TO FIND THE BONES OF THEM, and THEN brought back to life only for them to get in a relationship with MY abuser and "fixed" him, I would have lost my marbles. I also feel like he is more passive in Lucio's route, having full faith in you which is AUGHHHH I am pulling out my hair thinking about it, Asra the gender nuetral positive term you are. Person, human, beautiful soul, magistrate, whatever. I would also like to make some points about Nadia and how she supposedly couldn't shape up Lucio (it's strange because if anyone were to do it, it's her) BUT I DIGRESS. Lucio Lucio Lucio, ouggghh how I have complicated feelings towards you. I LOVE HIM as a character, especially since he's a slimy little weasle and continues to be one in his route, albeit a little more "self-aware" in a sense. Like yes, his traits can be seen as endearing, I simply adored that fact that he wasn't murdered by anyone other than his own huberus and impatience, very in character and I love that. Like yes!! Evil or ill-natured characters don't have to be these super cunning individuals that plan every step (I would talk about the Devil but he falls flat in that category) but rather, he's simply impulsive and simply put, dumb. He doesn't use his head like, ever which is rather endearing and pretty funny. Any route you speak to him in it's always "It's your fault this happened" and "Erm... was I supposed to be listening?" and the "Heh... not holding up my end of the bargain, I'm so smart" I GET IT. Look I know his whole route is about him taking accountability but all it amounts to is "I'm sorry I won't do it again" and essentially gets off the hook, like he doesn't try to fix of the damage he dealt to the people of Vesuvia during his reign, it's left to NADIA to fix which is downright disrespectful, because "Oopsies!! I'm just a dumb little brat bottom boy toy who cant think" and thats when I look at the camera, like. Just slow blink at it. Had to look up from my phone and sigh.

So, my problem lies with how they treated his redemption, character arc, and how to take accountability which is not well executed in the SLIGHTEST. OH AND NOT TO MENTION, THEY COMPLETELY LEFT MURIEL OUT OF LUCIO'S ROUTE. I know Muriel's "curse" makes people forget about him, but clearly in Muriel's route, Lucio is immune for whatever reason and ACTIVELY antagonizes Muriel. The spell might not work on him since he's in a sorta limbo, so I guess I can see why. But by that knowldge, there's many scenes where the cast goes over the whole "anything else we need you to apologize for, Lucio?" scenes where he's like "NOPE" while he's figiting (again pretty funny IF he wasn't romancable), he doesn't stop to think about Muriel ONCE. It's either about his mother (hi morga.... hiiii), the courtiers (also hiiiiiii courtiers....), disclosing that he may or may not have commited patricide until his mother pressed him to be honest, and then the fact that he and the courtiers work for the Devil or whatever, ugh. So you mean to tell me that he didn't even want to reminice about the coloseum-- which he supposedly really enjoyed -- ALL the bloodshed and people that died in the sake of entertainment BY MURIELS UNWILLING HANDS. Muriel followed orders because HE FORCED. Lucio made empty threats to harm Asra if Muriel didn't obey, which is textbook coersion, mind you, but the most disgusting thing was that Asra couldn't be hurt by Lucio in the FIRST PLACE.

Let's sit with that for a minute.

Lucio could NOT hurt Asra because of the deal he dealt with Asra's parents and the Devil. That doesn't get talked about at all and Asra's parents are so so so so sooooo dismissive about it when they meet with him. All Lucio says is "oopsies, I did that"

grown man btw. OH AND HEAVEN FORBID a man takes proper accountability and does more than say sorry. Also, for clarification, I am not against redemption arcs at all!! But when is comes to Lucio, a serial abuser whose actions deeply impact all of the cast in one way or another, gets dismissed as "he didn't know any better" and leaves it at that, I can't help but feel offended. I WANT to see Lucio take accountability, yes, but the caveat here is that he should SHOW us he's sorry and killing/sealing the Devil doesn't cut it. His upright ending is a little more tasteful, but him simply going back to being a merc and NOT actively trying to be fixing the mistakes he made is disrespectful. His reversed ending, ughhhhh I hated it. Genuinely left such a bad taste in my mouth, the MC simply plays the whole "don't worry kitten daddy will take care of this" while CONQUERING THE WORLD?? WHY?? "Oooooh its the devil's heart" SILENCE NADIA'S REVERSED ROUTE SHOWED HER TAKING CONTROL OF THE REALM AND ORGANIZING MEETINGS WITH THE OTHER MAJOR ARCANA TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE BALANCED. The only mildly perturbing thing about her was that she treated MC like a pet instead of an equal, sure fine whatever.

I can also understand that some people do like that stuff, I get it. A little bit for everyone!! You want a bratty bottom you get a bratty bottom!! But when the bratty bottom has done TERRIBLE THINGS that constantly get undermined by the narrative for the sake of "fixing him" is a big ol' alarm bell for me. I am all for a redepmtion arc, yes please!! But at the cost of the other characters and basically getting by with a slap on the wrist? Yeah, that won't cut it. Also me personally, I wouldn't let Lucio NEAR ME at all. My MC wouldn't either but its whatever they have to be the mary sue Y/N.

I think that's all I have to say for now, I could be writing other things but nahhhh, rant time.

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