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Originally Posted by Korinov
Yup. Well, it happens quite a lot with any story when any important (and liked by the fandom) character dies... the 'ruined foreverrrrr!' trope. The thing is, we've been stuck years since any 'good' character died (Isley, Riful or Duph were more like antagonists). Since Pieta, no claymore was shown torn to shreds or butchered mercilessly... looks like people around here have got a little soft, so if Yagi wanted to remind everybody that 'war' means 'casualties', even if the mission hasn't been accomplished, jackpot!
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Oh come on Korinov; don't be like that
It has nothing to do with fandom, it has to do with logic.
What, again, has Miria done to warrent her death? 106 was all about raising questions on Miria's stupidity in going to Staff alone. Now she's dead? So... Errrm okay?
It's rushed and anticlimatic; as I said before, characters are usually killed off when their purpose is complete, when they cannot go any further in their contributions, or they have left behind their legacy: all the characters thus far, have fallen into this mold, which is why, despite being a fan, it isn't so bad because we could have expected them to die.
Riful, Isley and all those characters you mentioned, Number 1, were all "good" characters with further potential: this isn't a black and white story with merely Good Guys and Bad Guys, so I'm not sure what this point means at all. I was saddened by all of their deaths, and they were all big players, so it's not like they were filler who didn't matter to the story at all. Teresa was the very same: the story simply could not continue with her power being as great as it was; something shocking and horrifying had to have happened, which is why, again, her death was somewhat predictable.
At the same time, I feel they all left behind a legacy and did major contributions to the story, so it really wasn't a big shock that their time had come: Isley, despite people saying that their was so much more that could have been done with him, made a war that changed the nature of the island, and in his own way, reformed. It's the same thing with Riful, Alicia, Beth and so on and so forth: they all showed their humanity in the end, left behind their legacy to be remembered(Raciella is the very product of Riful's designs for example), and, as brutal as their deaths were, it didn't leave you with nothing to show for it. Some fans, again, like with Isley, complain that more could have been done, but in a way, enough already was.
Now here we have Miria: currently the strongest hybrid warrior on the island; going off to Staff, by herself, to face the Organization alone, for some ridiculous reasons(I still don't even understand how the Organization heads even count as human beings)....and she dies. What are we supposed to think about? What has she done, what legacy has she left behind? What are we supposed to take from this? That she went off on her own on bizarre notions; to do what the entire Ghost team were to do together, instead shouldering everything by herself, and dying, what I feel to be, an embarrassing death? Isn't she supposed to be the strategist here?
On the surface, it's bad enough that
Tabitha of all people lives longer then her....but this isn't just fan-complaining, this is just bad writing to me. You may argue that Isley and others had wasted potential, but Miria takes the cake.
I know this is all rants, when the chapter hasn't even come out yet, but I don't feel so bad when I think this is just a sign of things to come
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