y'know what? *unopens your gate card*

anyway day ?????? of me still being mad that they made spectra's motive be that he wants "power for power's sake". That's Not A Motive You Give To A Character You Plan To Make Redeemable. bc like its obvs they planned to redeem him from the start. and i love spectra they're one of my absolute favourite characters ever but like UGGHHHH and his lack of motive ruins both mira's writing and gus' writing and eughghghgh.

they could have so done something w the fact that he wanted to take over vestal at the beginning like idk. whenever they showed keith before he became spectra he's so nice and they dont rlly give any hints of "oh maybe he is a bit messed up actually" apart from that one scene w hydranoid but there's like. 0 context to that?? he's just standing there. menacingly. like why would that happening to hydranoid motivate him to become more powerful???

idk i see spectra as a character who was supposed to be written to be able to be redeemed so i try and find ways to make him (and gus!!) more sympathetic??? but the writers just went "oh yea this is spectra he is cruel and evil and the worst, but because he's mira's brother he's redeemable and did nothing wrong, thats how character development works right?"

im rambling here as i so often do when my favs have so much squandered potential im sorry gjdkfs but like!! idk they could have made it so his taking over vestal thing originally was him being like "wow the ppl ruling this place sucks someone should rlly do something about it" but then they could have made it so like he was like "oh im the only one who can do this" and gave him his god complex and make him believe that everything he is doing is right bc y'know. he is a bit messed up and like power corrupts ppl.