Tumblr crosspost (25 September 2020)
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anghrainextoad on Tumblr said:
I've watched a series of videos by Kay & Skittles on Youtube that makes me think that a grey Zaheer could be one who interacts with the people he claims to want to liberate and tries to build his revolution from the ground-up rather than in a purely top-down manner.
I replied:
Hmm, that would certainly be an improved Zaheer.
I guess my difficulty is that it seems like that version would be so improved as to be essentially a good guy. I do think “what if the villains were actually heroic exemplars of their ideologies” is an interesting concept, it’s just not quite the one I’m struggling with—it’s making Noatak and Zaheer fall in that morally-dubious-but-not-evil zone where I’m kind of pulling a blank.
I've watched a series of videos by Kay & Skittles on Youtube that makes me think that a grey Zaheer could be one who interacts with the people he claims to want to liberate and tries to build his revolution from the ground-up rather than in a purely top-down manner.
I replied:
Hmm, that would certainly be an improved Zaheer.
I guess my difficulty is that it seems like that version would be so improved as to be essentially a good guy. I do think “what if the villains were actually heroic exemplars of their ideologies” is an interesting concept, it’s just not quite the one I’m struggling with—it’s making Noatak and Zaheer fall in that morally-dubious-but-not-evil zone where I’m kind of pulling a blank.