Talk:Behemo Barisol/@comment-26174543-20181008051608/@comment-2600:1702:3EC0:4B80:C1F7:86FF:EBED:A860-20181008150601

Behemo's certainly not a saint, anon, but keep in mind that these interpretations of him as benevelont are taken from actual soure material, and not just made up out of whole cloth.

Much of Behemo's motivations and actions throughout the series have been so incredibly vague that pretty much everything you just stated about him is an interpretation based on when we were taking what other people said about him at face value and assuming he was more villainous than he ended up being in the end.

Getting Allen and Riliane together would not have ended the world. We, the audience, might have thought so at the time, but Behemo, the person who explains how Re_Birthday works to Allen, most certainly would have not believed so while doing it. So the idea that this indicates his malice towards humanity is flawed. And honestly aside from Kiril I'm having a hard time thinking of anyone he really manipulates and toys with--and even in Kiril's case, it wasn't out of his own amusement but because he wanted to leave the ark. Even not taking Tobimisa's interpretation of events into account, this is not an inherently malicious action. In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of any real evidence that Behemo has HERS in general. Levia is stated to have gotten it, certainly, and Behemo may have gone along with her for the sake of his own agenda, but now that we know he was based on the real Behemo, who lived in a world without HERS, it seems possible that any particularly malicious actions on his part can be easily explained away with the information that's available at the end.

The only really heinous thing he does is have people murder Ghoul Children, which to be fair--they are HERS themselves and could cause a lot of problems if they ever got out.

The idea that he's some ego-ridden wannabe main god isn't really supported by anything in the text. Everything in OSS is from secondhand accounts (and we can perhaps assume that these are biased by thinking Behemo had the same motivations as Levia, which he obviously does not), and everything after he shows up shows him extremely mellowed.

Not to mention you can't just toss out the fact that he directs Allen on how to revive the world without making any indication he wants to rule it for himself just because you don't like how mothy handled that particular development.