Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-2175012-20180923161353/@comment-2175012-20181120040745

Though to be fair, the God of Darkness reminds me more of Angra Mainyu of Zoroastrianism myths what with him being the brother of a god whose purpose is destruction. Though both are different, of course. Though Angra himself is a satanic archetype in his own right...though I'm not going to say that he was a ripoff of Satan since most of what we got about Satan came from works such as Milton's Paradise Lost or the Divine Comedy with the fire and brimstone Hell being from medieval times. With Salem while I agree that she isn't the center of evil or anything of that sort, some of the events in Volume 6 really remind me of Lucifer's failed attempts at overthrowing God in Paradise Lost. But I won't lose much sleep over that.

I'm almost contemplating on whether or not the God of Light warrants a page here. I mean, his brother's obvious because he basically wipes mankind off of the face of Remnant in anger, but with the God of Light, I'd personally be damn hard-pressed to call him "good." I mean, I do understand the whole notion of "not wanting to upset the balance" by not reviving Ozpin (or Ozma), and that he probably received the same request time and time again. But the fact is...when his brother revives Ozpin, he kills him again, and then curses Salem with immortality for unintentionally tricking both brothers.

I mean did Salem deserve some punishment? Maybe so, but making her immortal is a little excessive. And then there's when the God of Darkness eradicated mankind in a 3a class apocalypse and he just stood by not doing anything about it. I do kind of see some plausible reasons as to why he chose not to take action because that would lead to them fighting again, but still. And then basically giving Ozpin a nearly impossible task of uniting humanity under the threat of if he was unable to get mankind to unite when the relics were brought back together, he and his brother would kill humanity permanently. This scene also made me feel that it was a little hypocritical on his part since he was all about that "not interfering with balance," and yet he is having Ozpin continually reincarnate until he felt that mankind was worthy. Granted, his reincarnation is just him merging his soul with another person'[s soul, but it still sounds hypocritical.

While I wouldn't call the God of Light "wicked," the only thing is, he doesn't strike me as "good" either. He and his brother are really more like the Greek gods in how he admits to seeing humanity as being fun experiments. But that's just me.