Talk:Othinus/@comment-45079828-20200219122928/@comment-25431873-20200220135617

The series is more interested in examining why the antagonists act the way they do and have them get over their issues than over punishing them for catharsis*. If you aren't down with that, my suggestion would be to stop reading (I certainly do not read, say, The Irregular At Magic High School).

But even then the series usually has more to say than a simplistic "forgiveness". To use Accelerator as an example, only Last Order really forgives him, and events like meeting Misaka Worst, the copies Kakine brings up, and his relationship with the Will of the Network shows that the real people who can forgive him are the clones he killed and that will never happen, so he will never be forgiven as such and can only try to atone as best as he can (this also becomes very relevant in the most recent volumes).

I personally don't have to "forgive" those characters, or even resent them, because they didn't kill real people, so getting upset about it strikes me as weird. And if they regret their actions, so much the better, I have even less reasons to.

If you had said from the start that it was just you having a philosophical disagreement with Kamachi, because you prefer punishment/capital execution over rehabilitation, I would have let it pass. But you came swinging at the author and the fans, basically accusing them of shallowness by "forgiving" Othinus because she's a cute girl. There probably are fans like that, if only because the law of large numbers makes it likely, but painting everyone with a brush like that is just incredibly rude and conceited. And I say that as a guy who thought (and still kinda does) that Othinus dying would have been a greater emotional climax to the arc than her coming back as a little fairy.

It's also not a good look to sign up on a wiki solely to complain about a character. I'm also not sure why you would think it a good idea when the wiki is full of spoilers and the forum function is basically non-existent. Reddit is a better place for this kind of thing.


 * and even then they are in some ways. Accelerator, Fiamma, and Othinus lose their powers having a change of heart, and people like Biagio, Lidvia, and Carissa went to prison.