Thread:DocColress/@comment-27729149-20150612052854/@comment-6489422-20150613220734

Never did I argue that loving someone makes one a good person - I said that loving someone with absolute sincerity makes a villain not a Complete Monster. It's called COMPLETE Monster for a reason - the monster is COMPLETELY devoid of any truly redeeming features on top of committing heinous crimes. Shion committed heinous crimes but had redeeming qualities like love, therefore cannot qualify for the trope. Shion loves people very deeply and that leads to her hating very deeply whenever that love is turned upside down.

And you know what? Shion herself would agree with you there seeing as in the Visual Novels, she herself admitted internally that deep down she knows that there's no excuse to murder and torture people - that killing has no true justification or "reason" regardless of what might have motivated it to start with. And feeling sorry for her deeds isn't meant to excuse or absolve her, but it does help to make her a redeemable and sympathetic character. I don't get why you find it impossible to have any sympathy for her seeing as, despite all the terrible things she did, she's still the same girl who was on the recieving end of horrific torment when she had to rip her own fingernails off. She would never have hurt anyone so badly had she not be hurt so badly in the first place, that's part of the tragedy.