If it's not obvious by now, MCD Aaron is very special to me
I know not a popular sentiment but stay with me
Just imagine, you have a wife, a son, a village, a beautiful life despite the hardships and duties that come with being a lord.
Then, one day, it's all ripped away from you. An act of protection-contorted in to one of dammation. An instant less than a blink of an eye, everything is gone.
The life you painstakingly cultivated snuffed out like a flickering candle left to the wims of the unforgiving wind.
You have to bury not only your family but friends. Your people - the very ones you swore to protect.
In response, you dedicate the rest of your life to revenge. Trying to take down the one man who destroyed your life. You don't even try to dispell the rumors that float about you, that condemn you for the cruelest actions and as such the cruelest fate. They are inconsequential to who you are now.
You vow to never become close to anyone again lest they be taken from you. Yet you still save some pieces of yourself- your not nice, you were never that, but you were a protector, and you still serve as one.
Saving those you see as innocent and in need of help.
In what is both a stroke of luck and your own dedication paying off you get the opportunity you've been waiting for. You don't get to kill the man but it's close to it, and the best you'll get for now. Still has it is now there's nothing left for you to do, nothing to live for now that your objective is semi-complete.
You kinda just drift and in doing so you are given a new purpose. Or at least something to do. Still you try to keep to you distance, refrain from getting to attached so that it does not harm you or them.
You start to come to genuinely appreciate this woman who is kinda the reason for your revenge, her and her crew. Her guards who are fiercely loyal and dangerous and in love with her, but that's not your business. Her acquired demonic travel compain who you do not train but come close to it. Then, the sporadic researcher who is more of a liability than anything. And a dog and more.
A new purpose a new start. So you help build a village and raise a daughter, having been the only person to really have any experience in both of these things.
In doing so, you start to care, mayhaps even fall for this woman, whom you see so much of yourself in, by nature of your occupation, of course, but there's more.
You see a similar struggle and appreciation and pain, not the same but close enough; it is one of lost, of a entire future being ripped away by the selfishness of one man the same man.
You get along just fine, more than fine, and you start to think maybe you could live life a little.
But just as you see the same pain, you also see the same stubbornness. The same drive and need to reciprocate what was lost, but this time for her it's more attainable. More dangerous.
So you take it upon yourself to do what she cannot, what very well may kill her- kill you. Isn't that what you promised yourself, that you would never fail anyone else, yourself again?
This time, it's different. You had a new lease on life, and this time, you used it not as an act of revenge but one of protection. Doing what you could not do before, taking care of the people you love. Protecting your child and her mother.
A worthy, damning, heartbreaking sacrifice.
Then after it's all said and done you're not even allowed to move on to the afterlife- to see your people, your wife and child because you are being used as a vessel, as weapon against the very person you gave your life for.
Now imagine all of that, then imagine some 14 year old complaining about not liking you because "You ruined their ship"...
Lol, someone give this man a break.
This man is tragedy personified and the fandom reaction to him is kind of funny in that aspect
