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Originally Posted by Pegasai
This was what I was referring to. I really don't have any knowledge of the Japanese audience and simple google searches haven't revealed anything so I can't really comment.
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The guy gets more fanart, fanfics, and magazine images that any of the other 3 main characters. He's even got honest-to-God prayer boxes in some stores for fans that are praying for him to have a happy ending.
And keep in mind, that the eastern audience is really the ones that the makes of the show are catering to.
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This is speculation. It may end up being true, but to me, the evidence is increasingly pointing towards a more impure motivation. Intent to use underhanded methods to frame dissenting counts may be excusable & compatible with a pure motivation, but there are certain things that make me doubt that he's really pure as you claim.
1. Slaine's monologue about settling for power if he can't be close to Asseylum or be of use to her. There's no pure reason for Slaine to have power if he's not going to be working for Asseylum's goals. And you're not going to convince me that Slaine suddenly started caring about the poor in Vers when the only thing on Slaine's mind up to this point has been Asseylum, Asseylum, and Asseylum.
2. Slaine's unnecessary outburst at Eddelrittuo. I want to add a corollary to this and say that Slaine dropping the honorifics for Harklight is another sign. These little things seem to be adding up in showing that the power is getting to his head.
3. Dropped flowers. Control freak. Rage about NTR. lol
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Sure it's speculation, but there are hints within the show to back it up. However, again, you interpert them in your way, and I see them differently:
As for 1) He need power in order to be able to do anything. The want for power doesn't make someone's intentions impure, it's what they do with that power that becomes the problem.
As for Slaine's ideas on the poor of Vers in comparison to his feelings on Asseylum, I will give you
a quote from the director:
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"His [Slaine's] maxim is essentially “I want to help the princess”. That desire naturally continued to exist in his mind until the end of the story, but because of his meeting with Count Saazbaum, new values have grown inside of Slaine. Saazbaum is the powerful ringleader behind Asseylum’s assassination attempt; as far as Slaine is concerned, he’s an enemy he should be attacking. But to him there’s a greater cause: “I want to improve the lives of the people residing on Mars”. And so, touched by his way of thinking, inside of Slaine’s head there’s a conflict between “loyalty towards the princess” and “the great cause that Saazbaum stands for” that results in a waver in his values; I think that has something to do with saving Saazbaum’s life during the final episode when he was about to be defeated by Inaho. However, as a consequence of that, one can say that Saazbaum, whose life he had saved, shooting Asseylum turned out to be an ironic ending."
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2) He's worried about Asseylum and he thinks she will be in danger if anyone found out that she's alive. Especially if word gets back to Lemrina who has shown that she will never stop hating the royal family, so he wanted to make sure Eddelrittuo didn't tell anyone. Sure he was a little short with her, but he's under a lot of stress too. As for the dropping of honorifics with Harklight, that's not because of arrogance but because of the close relationship the two had. If you remember, before, he didn't even want to, even though Harklight insisted. And he only dropped them after he became count. He keeps the honorific with everyone else on his base, even though he doesn't have to.
3) Really? What about him dropping the flowers shows he's controlling? If he was really controlling he would not allowed anyone to talk about Inaho at all and would be controlling what Eddelrittuo said, but he's not. He's upset and can't really face her right now, but I don't know how that translates to "controlling". (I'll simply ignore the NTR nonsense.
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Wrong! It should actually be the opposite lol
Too many people like L-elf and Lelouch. They should hate them just as much as they hate Slaine (if not more).
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Well, it's my own opinion so it can't be wrong to me. As for L-elf and Lelouch? Well, I can't say I'm the only person who likes them, they are the most popular characters for either series, and that's for both western and eastern audiences.
