is this a scott goldsmith character analysis??
Scott goldsmith was a bad person. Scott goldsmith was never going to be a good person, not when all he's known how to do for the past 1400 years was lie and manipulate to get his way. Scott Goldsmith, understand, was a husk of a person, living for base pleasures but not truly feeling because he couldn't. He loved life and he loved living but at some point it lost its luster and the infinite made atrocities not seem so bad.
The point of the story is not that Scott Goldsmith became a good person, the point of the story is that Scott Goldsmith is trying. The point of the story is that if you connect with people, if you don't look at the world in black and white you can heal and become a better person than you were yesterday
That's why its important that Scott was redeemed. Because otherwise it's a black and white story. The big evil bad guys (Scott, Owen, and Pyro) are dead and everyone else gets their happy end or dies as recompense for their sins (Legundo). That's why it's just as important that Ren and Martyn died. Because this isn't a black and white story, the heroes don't always get what they want. Because they're human, because they make mistakes.
The point of the story is that Scott's death would be the easy way out. He wouldn't have to make ammends, or try to be better. He'd be dead and the story would be over and everyone would be happy. It's why Owen chose to die, because he was tired and the weight of his sins was too much to face as a human. Death is the easy way out and Scott Goldsmith doesn't deserve to take the easy way out.
Scott Goldsmith was never going to apologize because he still hasn't processed what he did wrong. Because it's been a few days in the face of 1400 years of unrepentant evil. Because he's new to this whole caring thing. He will probably apologize eventually, as long as he has people by him to support him in his redemption. People don't become good in a single day, it's a messy process. Legs and Scott both showed that.
There's relapses, there's going to be days he says or does something that hurts someone and acts like nothings wrong. Tehere's going to be days he manipulates and gaslights because that's who he was for 1400 years. That's how he survived the Oakhurst massacre. At his core Scott Goldsmith is Legundo's parallel. He is a man who wants to live, and he will do anything to get that.
I have said from the beginning that if push comes to shove and the vamps are losing, Scott would join the town. It was not an out of character decision and it was a decision made from a place of selfishness. But that promise he made to Legundo to be better? The promise he made to Abolish? Those are what's shown he's changed.
Scott Goldsmith knows who he is more than he knows anything else and he fears (just like Legundo) that some day he'll go too far again. So he, because he loves his fledglings and wants them to be happy, is trying to change. He is trying to be human in a way he has not in a long time. He doesn't get morality, he's low-empathy, he doesn't understand people. Maybe he could. Maybe he will. Scott Goldsmith is trying.
That's the core of this story. It's that everyone deserves redemption, everyone deserves tht chance to become a better person and maybe you'll never make up for your sins, because they run too deep, but you can be a better person than you were yesterday.
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