Complex Character Tournament Semifinal: Isabel Lovelace (Wolf 359) vs. Akane Kurashiki (Zero Escape)
Isabel Lovelace
Akane Kurashiki
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Isabel Lovelace:
She is a woman full of grief and rage and determination. She is the antagonist of season two, but in my opinion she's never a bad guy. From her perspective she found out her last living crewmate had offed the rest, knocked him out, escaped on their self-made shuttle that was supposed to hold all of them, went to sleep in cryo, and when she woke up she was right back at the space station she had just escaped from. So yes, she rigged a bomb to her shuttle hooked to a dead man's switch based off her heart rate. It wasn't personal, she didn't know who she would be dealing with. And then she saw three strangers in the station she lived in with amazing people for years, and the person who killed those amazing people and she went, okay, I'm getting the good humans out, and blowing up the station and the bad human and unfortunately the good AI but this station cannot continue to exist. At some point she decided she would not kill the AI but did she tell anyone? No. She gives her blood to save someone. Later she gives her life (she gets better). But she doesn't give an inch if she can help it. She finds out she's a clone and has to decide if she wants to be Isabel Lovelace, and who that would be. The original Isabel Lovelace also wanted to burn the corporation to the ground, yet this one worries she'd not be true to her past self if she continues down the path she's been on. She's funny. She's sad. She demands that people help her help them but she doesn't open up enough to get them to understand. She conspires with the person she hates the most to manipulate someone she actually likes alright.
Akane Kurashiki:
Literally Schrodinger's catgirl. Has incredibly complicated and questionably valid reasons for everything she does yet often gets simplified in fandom as "woman who is deceptive (see: not a perfect love interest who, again, does morally questionable things) that I therefore don't like"
#AKANE GO GO GO#she's literally complex and just wants to save herself / save the world but hurts so many people along the way#but her reasons for doing so are interesting and legitimate and she's never going to be that perfect love interest girl#because she's so much more complex#and she really loves the guy she kidnaps twice and includes in her schemes but it won't stop her#because she'll do anything for her goals. she's on a mission and it doesn't matter what he wants#she's deeply flawed in suchhhhh a fun way. the best character of all time#also. i saw that she won against renga 18trip... rip renga i saw that the propaganda was long as hell for him#akane may be my favorite character ever but i like renga a lot (<- i loooove his character novel) and i admire the propaganda a lot#but now akane has won and i don't need to feel bad for calling for an AKANE KURASHIKI SWEEP FOREVER#zero escape spoilers