#rin tpw

Kitay and Rin fight and plan battles based on numbers, not lives. Souji, however, based his methods on the lives affected. I just love to see Rin admitting she lacks attributes(consideration of the civilians) that make a good military officer while Souji actively has those attributes. And from there, the method in fighting can just bleed into Rin’s everyday existence.

That line of thought was mostly because I just finished The Poppy War and from what I can tell, in that book, Rin was truly just trying to do what she set out to do from the beginning: become strong and gain power. That’s why she took Lore, to understand her potential power. That’s why she followed Atlan too, even when she knew he was batshit crazy. Sure, things got messy with her learning she was Speerly but again, all her actions were to become strong.

HOWEVER, now that I started The Dragon Republic, she’s legit already what she hated. She hated drugs and opium because of her history with the Fangs but she’s literally an addict now. She hated Atlan because he was an addict too, but look where she is: exactly where he was. Atlan thought she could’ve been better and stronger but she’s deadass going down the same exact path of rage and revenge as him.

Not only with the drugs, theres also the MOTHERFUCKING GENOCIDE?? Guys, I fear her killing Mugen civilians was not on my bingo card. She hated the Federation for what they did to her ancestors and Nikara in Golyn Niis, but LOOK WHERE THE FUCK SHE IS: doing the EXACT GODAMN THING.

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