Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32537761-20171016114232/@comment-33546700-20171108131237

NewGenTV wrote: She's seen these people first hand, yet she dropped her interest for Tatsumi the very second second she learned of his involvement with Night Raid, didn't even hesitate once. It would have been more interesting to see some internal conflict within her, instead of blindly following their orders, but these things never occur within the actual story, she's fully aware of her surroundings as oppose to other people. Mind you, the Empire's in chaos and the entire nation dislikes their monarchy, seeing people fighting within the rebellion is not that hard to believe nor assume that they wouldn't be antagonized by the rulers. "Seryu did nothing wrong", on multitude of occasions she expressed great enjoyment and satisfaction in her violent actions, often ignoring her own agenda of justice, preferring to satisfy her sadistic needs, such as torturing and murdering captured and defenseless prisoners and casually feeding people to Koro. It's really irrelevant with "he said, she said" story, Seryu openly disregards all of her actions as evil even though she's fully aware of them with an excuse that she's fighting evil peple, but that doesn't justify her actions in any way. Doesn't mean the person's a good guy if they kill a bad guy.

You can even call her a hypocrite, as she summarizes everything wrong about "evil" actions, before committing them herself the very next episode. She's not by any means a well written character, very in the basics and a wasted potential for someone that should have been within a gray area. I like the promise the character had, but there's a complete difference between your subjectivity for them and trying to objectively justify their inexcusable actions. The major problem overall is the story, no one but Wave's been written as a character that actually has alternative ideas for these motives. Actually person is a good guy if he/she kills a bad guy. What do you think anti terrorist squds like SWAT do? They eliminate target. Does that make them bad people? No.Seryu believes that evil must be destroyed by any means needed. Torturing? Sounds bad..but sometimes its only way to gte information. Especially when you are questioning professional assassin or terrorist.

Seryu seen those people around? What makes you think that they told about what they actually doing. Dr. Styles just needs to say: "I experiment on criminals" and she never questions his job again. What if they had orders to hide the truth from Seryu at any cost. And trick her into thinking that she serves justice instead of working for corrupt government.

Seryu isnt evil...if she knew the truth she would turn against Empire. Person who values justice the most...imagine how she would react after finding out that she was lied maybe for her whole life and instead of helping people working for evil criminals. She most likely wouldnt join night raid too...she might have some grudge against them, but...real reason her not joining them would be...she knows they hate her for what she did..trying to befriend them would cause only more deaths...and since she'd know that night raid arent bad guys or criminals she would try to avoid them. Possibly by leaving city.

Just like I said...its really easy to manipulate and trick someone like Seryu...

Another thing...if Seryu had same personality and was member of night raid, no one even call her actions wrong. She gets violent only to those who are evil and commited crimes...but who wouldnt...do you really think you would remain calm if you knew that poerson sitting next to you is assassin and serial killer and is targetting those who are close to you. Would you remain calm. Especially if you work for law enforcement. Wouldnt you try to arrest him? Still such people never gives up without a fight. Dont forget that night raid were viewed as dangerous criminals in eyes of society. Even Tatsumi thought taht once we met tehm for first time.