anyway they better not pull punches with akasha or twist her motivations. she is a villain. she is an evil, self absorbed, misogynistic queen who is willing to use violence to make the world comfortable for only herself, to make it bend to what she deems as correct. she orders the rape and mutilation of women who won't affirm her religious beliefs. she orders the genocide and colonization of nations because she does not like their cultural or religious practices. when she wakes she refuses to acknowledge her part in the pain and suffering she has caused or the domino affect in the vampiric world that was the result of her violence towards two women and the slaughter of their entire village. instead she victim blames, displaces the responsibility onto men as a whole, and goes on killing and trying to control women to bend to her idea of peace. and it makes her a fascinating villain and very real symbolism for many types of women who exist even to this day, claiming to have feminist morals but being exclusionary, cruel and violent to the women who don't fit their more privileged narratives. it's a relevant story. the world is full of terfs and women in power who trample those beneath themselves all while claiming to be feminist or empowered. that is who akasha represents.
