silver-gambit replied to your post“if asseylum and slaine don't meet face-to-face in the second part of az i'm going to throw myself out a window /loud sobbing/”
Especially with the season one trauma to back it up, yoooooooo someone make this happen please!!!!! Like a protagonist who's the villain (or something of that sort), god another thing we never knew we wanted
Though not like crazy-crazy, no need for insane characters, just ones that are like in a stuck mental state
Actually this is a thing I DID know I wanted, and a thing I've actually always enjoyed the rare times it's happened; when a villainous character is villainous not in the sense of 'muahaha I am going to do the thing and I don't care if you think it's bad I'll DO IT ANYWAY' but an antagonist who is so utterly convince they are doing the right thing that their view of the world becomes so skewed that they feel everyone else is evil for trying to stop them.
I believe Slaine has a lot of potential to become such an antagonist, he's been met with so many conflicting views on Martian and Terran race and the conflict between them that he doesn't know what is right anymore, there was nothing that proved this better than season 1's final episode where everything went so horribly, horribly wrong.
A lot of people were angry with Slaine for what he did but I believe each and every one of his actions was justified--from his point of view. Slaine is a mess, and his ever-changing surroundings and peers have, to put it delicately, completely fucked him up until he's doing things we view as bad but he sees as completely rational.
And think of Count Cruhteo, who was a key presence in Slaine's life on Vers. The Count was exactly the same; doing things considered cruel or unnecessary because he legitimately thought he was doing it for the sake of the princess and for the sake of his people.
Slaine has been forced to grow up a lot these past 12 episodes, but too fast. I honestly believe he would make a fantastic antagonist provided they keep him with the same sort of character he currently has and don't let shitty writing warp him into something cliched and boring.