She didn't cry when he left, she started crying when he was still there and calling her out on what she did, saying she'd become a worse tyrant than Adwaitya. When her own FATHER is telling her what she did is wrong, why wouldn't she listen and understand? Where did it indicate she DIDN'T?
I'm not saying he's unjustified or that Charmcaster was in what she did, but you have to understand where she's coming from. Most of the "lives she thought didn't mean as much as father" had started a war and begun killing each other once she deposed Adwaitya. That combined with the looooong time Charmcaster's been sealed in Ledgedomain, for all she knows ABANDONED by Gwen and co., why WOULDN'T she feel resentful toward all of them and (wrongly, mind you) feel that they deserve to die for the sake of getting back the only person who loves her?
That Ben can't feel any sympathy for her whatsoever, IMO, means he hasn't matured at all from the narrow-mindedness he displayed when he felt killing Kevin was the only option.
Staff writer Geoff Thorne has gone on record to state that Charmcaster isn't evil and is supposed to be sympathetic ("I'm sorry. Were you watching the same episode as me? I saw a girl who was broken-hearted, who had done terrible things for the chance to save the father she loved only to have them come to nothing. Gwen says she has nothing now, she's empty. In what way does "empty" mean "evil?"")
If the writer of this episode (David McDermott) somehow didn't get this across, then that's his problem, not Charmcaster's. Charmcaster was not justified in what she did, but there were sympathetic reasons behind it, and she's likely going to try to get better from now on.
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Date: 2012-04-19 07:55 pm (UTC)I'm not saying he's unjustified or that Charmcaster was in what she did, but you have to understand where she's coming from. Most of the "lives she thought didn't mean as much as father" had started a war and begun killing each other once she deposed Adwaitya. That combined with the looooong time Charmcaster's been sealed in Ledgedomain, for all she knows ABANDONED by Gwen and co., why WOULDN'T she feel resentful toward all of them and (wrongly, mind you) feel that they deserve to die for the sake of getting back the only person who loves her?
That Ben can't feel any sympathy for her whatsoever, IMO, means he hasn't matured at all from the narrow-mindedness he displayed when he felt killing Kevin was the only option.
Staff writer Geoff Thorne has gone on record to state that Charmcaster isn't evil and is supposed to be sympathetic ("I'm sorry. Were you watching the same episode as me? I saw a girl who was broken-hearted, who had done terrible things for the chance to save the father she loved only to have them come to nothing. Gwen says she has nothing now, she's empty. In what way does "empty" mean "evil?"")
If the writer of this episode (David McDermott) somehow didn't get this across, then that's his problem, not Charmcaster's. Charmcaster was not justified in what she did, but there were sympathetic reasons behind it, and she's likely going to try to get better from now on.