Talk:Esdeath/@comment-4068612-20140804155503/@comment-4068612-20140804161943

As a tangent, moral ambiguity seems to be an underlying theme in AGK. Night Raid mentions early on that they're not justice. They do what they believe is right, but they're still murderers.

Tatsumi assassinates a man whose daughter runs in shortly after, causing him to think about how someone they consider evil could still be kind to someone.

Esdeath is similar to the second case as well. But her ability to be kind or gentle doesn't change what she's done, which is also what Tatsumi mentions when he contemplates attempting to recruit her, about how she might be able to "repent."

But Esdeath most likely doesn't think about good or bad in any of her actions. She's very neutral in that she doesn't really care about the revolution or the empire. It doesn't change the fact that she's an objectively terrible person who enjoys making others suffer, though.

To people who want to say she's not a bad person, many terrible people think that what they do is the right thing. Hitler thought he was doing the world justice. Keep that in mind. Everyone is the main character in their own story. She might not actually care about justice, but the point being that few people truly see themselves as bad guys. You don't make those labels based solely on their beliefs. Her lack of care for the political conflict doesn't mean she's not a good or a bad person. It just means she doesn't care.