Thread: Licensed Akame ga kill [Manga]
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Old 2013-07-02, 07:28   Link #2317
Randrak42
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Well...the conversation has progressed enough while I was asleep >_>
Anyway, for me the thing about Bors is that...he was following orders. Now, that doesn't excuse his actions however you also have to understand that this was a man stuck between a bullet and his family and he chose to protect his family even if it meant committing unspeakable acts (which still haunted him). We don't know the full extent of his past, like why did he join the military and how did he get his Teigu but considering that he was likely already part of the military when at least got a kid it's reasonable to assume that they would not take it too kindly if a Teigu user just up and went "I don't want to do this anymore, I'm leaving". At best he'd be discharged only to find it hard to find another job to provide for his family as not only did he have a history of butchering people but he also had a disfigured and intimidating figure which would scare others away easily.
There's a lot of variables and issues surrounding Bors' situation, it's not as cut and dry as "He burned down a lot of villages and people, therefore he's evil."

Seryuu was a more straightforward situation though still a bit complicated. She's an extremist which is almost always a bad thing because extremists then to think that what they believe is right and everything else is wrong and should not exist. If you look at it one way you see a girl that wanted to be a defender of justice and fighter of evil, a girl that joined the police in order to protect others. However her views on the justice issue were the problem as she only saw things in absolutes, "Absolute Evil = Death" and "Absolute Good = Protection" and there was no middle ground with her.
It did not help that the mentor she admired and the scientist that helped her turned out to be twisted people that did unspeakable things for their own sick pleasure, either without her knowledge or she simply wasn't capable of admitting it to herself due to her admiration for them.
HOWEVER after the death of her mentor things changed, her mind became more twisted and unstable and she focused her justice not for protection of others but for revenge, she began doing it not for others but for her own selfish reasons. This is a very important thing that differentiates someone like Bors from Seryuu. One was doing what he did under orders but doing it to protect someone else (his family) while Seryuu was doing it all for herself (for revenge), she wasn't focusing on protecting others, just vengeance.

Again, that isn't to say that Bors was excused for his actions, not in the least but his reasons for committing such acts are much more easily excused than Seryuu's.

NR are also killers, they are not saints however they only kill people that have and are causing harm to innocent people, that or people that are after their lives. What they do is also for others and they target only people viewed as being on the extreme edge of the scale of evil to stop them from harming more innocent people. Is this different from Seryuu's views on things? Not really but then again Seryuu focused on the revenge aspect rather than the protection of the week and used justice as an excuse instead of a guideline.

Also she killed a lovable member of the MC group AND fed her body (along with Chelsea's) to her puppy...on-screen. THAT did not get her any fans in the least so the hate for her in easier to understand even if she was a tragic character all along.
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