Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32537761-20171016114232/@comment-33546700-20171110121441

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. I still think she done nothing wrong. What makes you so sure that she saw crimes of empire. Dont forget that she thinks that all evil must die. Problem is that she saw empire as good guys and even she witnessed soldiers killing people she just treated those people as traitors to empire supporters of night raid. The fact that she worked for empire and was trained by Ogre or had some body modifications done by Dr.Stylish doesnt mean that she knew about what they actually do. Its easy to trick her. She cares only about justice. Tell her that people you experiment on area crimianls and she will ignore you...tbh even Dr.Stylish himself called people he experimented on a criminals.

Yeah..Seryu killed innocent people when following orders..but tahst because she thought those people are criminals and deserve to die. She wouldnt hurt a fly if she wasnt fighting for empire..oh well..maybe she would, but it would be those who are truly evil. Her and Tatsumi...well...I'm pretty sure she believed him to be nice guy once she met him.But you see...she got mad simply because...she treated him as ally...I mean...during the time he spent with Jeagers Seryu was pretty sure that hes one of them. But...truth is revealed and he's proven to be member to night raid. No one likes spies. Especially when those spies works for terrorist organization. Yes, in the eyes of empire night raid were just terrorists and assassins.

Also she would never believe Tatsumi or other night raid memeber if they tried to tell her a turth about empire. Words of enemy means nothing. Dont give into words of enemy. Its repeated many times in the show. Tatsumi could have possibility to reveal truth to her when he spent time with Jaegers. But it shouldn't been words. He should've shown her undeniable truth. Just like someone mentioned before after seeing crimes of wild hunt Seryu...well she wouldnt join night raid or oppose empire instantly..but that would plant seed of doubt in her mind and she most likely try to find proof which confirms or denies empire being evil.

No matter that her understanding of justice is only black and white, but that illusion would shatter instantlly after she'd start doubting actions of empire.