I will never fully be able to hate Fang Runin. Like R.F Kuang had said at a panel, every terrible thing Rin had done was for a reason. Every dreadful act was exactly what anybody would do had they been put into her shoes. I think she is so interesting and itâs infuriating watching her character be diluted down to âteenage girl who gets powers and murders peopleâ because she is so much more. Rin is stronger than she can comprehend. Rin has murdered thousands in the name of liberating her people. Rin has reduced innocent people sheâs killed to vermin just to make genocide more palatable. Rin commits war crimes. Rin also murders a rapist. Rin also loves her friends so fiercely and would and has defended them with all that she can. Rin speaks for the oppressed and wants to give them a voice and hope. Rin grieves like any mourner would. Rin is both so human and yet so inhumane. She uses soldiers like they are nothing but pawns on a chess board. Shes the product of war, she shows exactly what young people are turned into by the brutality of war and oppression. She is a coin of the cruelty and sympathy of all sides of war looks like.


















