Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140806122913/@comment-7342272-20140907021707

Servant of Evillious wrote:

Pathologically, Caspar toyed with a girl's emotions all his life and psychologically wrecked, and yet he still had the audacity to parade his wrongs in front of her without the slightest fear she'd betray him. It's not like Prim didn't do this to Ney.

It's not like Julia didn't do this to Lemy.

Not to mention, Irina herself had something to do with Ney's mental stability. Prim manipulated her own child for her benefit, her petty rivalry with Anne, not to mention Prim had Ney just because she wanted to beat Anne at something, which in this case was having Arth's child before her. Ney literally existed only for Prim's gain and petty competition, not even hesitating to have a fourteen year old girl possessed with a demon to enact her revenge and destroy several countries. She didn't hesitate to let Ney be possessed by the Demon of Gluttony for the benefit of the plan. Of course, Prim never expected all this pressure and lack of attention would make Ney snap and betray her. Now Prim didn't parade around with it, ("Hey look Kyle, Ney is possessed by Vanika Conchita, ain't I clever???") but you catch my drift. Prim's manipulation ultimately led to Ney's demise, at -who else- Irina's hands.

Onto Julia and Lemy. Now, not much is known about their relationship, not as much as Prim-Ney's relationship. Lemy, a reincarnation of Hansel, was loyal to "Julia", a Meta-look alike. Julia brainwashed this poor child into being a cold assassin, not bothered with killing adults practically twice his size. He did this regularly without fail. Now he wasn't just her little hitman, he joined her goddamn criminal organization. Black market dealings, genocides, terrorism, removal of evidence and witnesses, providing alibis, the whole shebang. SHE taught him the world was filled with mistakes. She, practically God to him, told him who were the mistakes. With him being so loyal, he would have never disobeyed her. At least, Julia would suspect that. But Lemy never disobeyed her, as far as we know. She ruined his life... and he never knew. He never knew a completely normal life. Sure, she may have read him bedtime stories, but she was still boss, and he was still hitman. We don't know if Julia even cared if he was dead. She probably shrugged her shoulders and said "Oh well, I guess I'll have to try again."

Venomania gets more fangirls, when he did a lot worse than Caspar. Caspar hasn't even raped or killed anyone, as far as I know. Every one of his mistresses consented to their respective relationships to him.

I'm not saying Caspar is godly, saintlike, or perfect. It's just that all the hate he gets is never projected to characters who do practically the same things as he did. You could argue he has no redeeming qualities. Well, what redeeming qualities did Prim have? Intricate planning skills? What does Irina have that Caspar doesn't? A villain's typical sense of humor? Dedication to enacting her revenge?

Sometimes, this is a matter of gender. People hate on Rillaine but absolutely LOVE Reverse AU!Alexiel. Maybe what Prim and Irina have that Caspar doesn't is a second X chromosome.

And yeah, Irina is honest about her evil nature. But "parading around", as you say Caspar was doing, is like being honest, is it not? Am I mistaken?

"Look, here I am, kissing a pretty girl in front of my wife. She doesn't care, does she? She knows I cheat, and I don't try to hide it." You can argue, but that sounds like he's putting it all out there.

Tune in next week for more "Scarletta Agni freakishly over-analyzes EVERYTHING"