WHB CHP 8 SPOILERS + My angry rant about what happened
Okay so this is just my thing but like I think Foras' death was first a last minute decision and/or just lazy writing and second a really dumb choice and this is 100% bias talking and tell me if I'm just coping lol
First, a thing I think everyone caught on when the trailer dropped but killing off a character like Foras really fucks with the timeline. Like if he's dead at the end of the events in Babel, how is he in any card story actually (Because chronologically most of them make sense to have happened post Babel) Levi's selfie card makes the most of this because Foras is there and the selfie card stories are implied to happen after the events of Babel (as seen as how Beel knew MC in this chapter too and also Marbas mentioning the last time he and MC met during Lucifer's card was during Nina and Leamus and immediately after that Babel happened!) and let's not talk about the events like the Butler events and literally every other place he shows up because if the cards are canon and happen in the story(according to Beel knowing MC) then it makes no sense for Foras to have died as it messes with the timeline like fuck because most of these events and cards would have had to take place after Babel which was why everyone was so sure he wouldn't die.
Also I think that just did it for Leviathan's character growth. You know the "Mean but secretly cares thing". They were really on that in Chapter 7. Because like read the dialogue it's mostly MC and Leviathan crying, which makes sense but like that was more the focus than anything else.
Idk if they wanted to properly kill a character I'd have gone with Kesi or Subject 1 because they haven't shown up in any cards or events(to my knowledge) and it would have been so much cooler! They already showed the other failed experiments being Angelified and them having the strength of Mammon so boom Angelify Subject 1 and watch them all struggle with that and it'd make sense for Mammon to appear to stop it because it'd be like finishing what he started in killing his clones and the timeline doesn't fall apart like wet paper. It have emotional value and give those two more lore and screentime, it'd make people eager to meet Kesi again later in the story to see how he's doing and it'd still give that emotional value they were looking for because Tartaros is kinda indebted to the guy for keeping them alive secretly ig. It'd also be a chance to see Kesi and Mammon actually interact and give him more character then a convenient help in whatever chapter he shows up- and I don't wanna hear that "Weren't they busy saving Tartaros?" If Tartaros was really in danger Mammon wouldn't have been sitting on his ass playing games the whole time. I think Kesi just staged that so he could leave peacefully.
Speaking of Mammon though how TF did he get down the steps so fast when it took the Babel crew ™ basically months to get to the bottom?? I don't think that's in his skillset but oh well
But back to the original topic currently basically all the characters currently in the Gacha pool have some plot value that killing them would make everything fall apart. It'd have made more sense to kill Foras after Babel because then there'd be a part in the timeline where him still being there for events and cards actually make sense.
This shot got me raging harder than Satan. But ngl the actual chapter did get me crying and shit so I guess they did good there but that's mostly because I love Foras more than anything and now bro is high fiving Solomon and is cosplay Genshin impact Furina. They are either going to bring him back at some point(which I doubt) or just leave this bs of a problem be there
TL;DR Foras' death was wack and messed with the timeline and it should have been either Kesi or Subject 1(Leaning towards Subject 1) and I will die on this hill
Anyway this is a way to vent my undeniable anger about this nonsensical specific part of chapter 8, Thank you for coming to my Ted talk :D