Ozpin! (Please be gentle to my boi he needs a rest)
Oh I have nothing but sympathy for Ozpin to be quiet frank so no worries their!
The way the show treats Ozpin despite what we found out in the lost fable still makes me very frustrated and angry for him. This is a man who died and then was brought back and forth repeatedly by the brothers before brutally killed again which alone would be extremely traumatic. Then he was tricked and manipulated into agreeing to be cursed to fulfill what he later finds out is literally an impossible goal.
Then he finds his wife, someone who he thinks is safe but then turns around and brutally murders him and his children when he tries to leave. He then finds out their is no way to stop Salem and his only hope is to maintain a stalemate. He tries to find Allies and tell them the truth but it causes them to turn on him and betray him over and over again. He then stops telling people the truth out of fear which also gets him betrayed over and over again. No matter what he does people blame him and hate him for Salems and the brothers actions.
No one wants to talk about it but gosh what the brothers did to him to have him bouncing between body after body and their souls slowly combining because of it? That is just cruel of the brothers. If you think about it Ozma is long since gone by now, his soul combined with so many others their is no way the original Ozma is their anymore and that is heartbreaking. And no I do not believe Ozma fully understood what GOL was doing to him until it was too late and he was made to believe the fate of the world was on his shoulders and his alone.
How could he not lose hope after all he learned and endured? How could he not feel hopeless and have no idea how to proceed or deal with this information?
Ozpin was handed a terrible hand and was then proceeded to be punished for getting said terrible hand in life and it kills me. He should be of one the most sympathetic characters in the show but we’re supposed to hate him because he dared not tell the whole truth to the main characters and that is apparently the worst crime any person can commit /s.