No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Mar. 4th, 2019 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal(Not sure who if anyone will appreciate this multifandom parallel, but I Have A Type, okay.)
It's been pointed out by many (including in one of the English-language forwards) that one of the main themes of Quatrevingt-Treize is "is mercy sometimes a bad thing?" Most notably, Gauvain shows mercy to not-great dude Lantenac, and has to accept the consequences. Ditto Tellmarch. The Bonnet Rouge shows mercy to Michelle and her kids, who aren't bad guys, but this winds up putting them in trouble. Etc.
Well, in Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor is responsible for creating Visser Three...by refusing to kill thousands of defenseless Yeerks in the transport ship. And like, even if not all of them are Lantenac-level villains, they're on the Taxxon homeworld as part of a war to create a slave empire.
Visser Three brings about Elfangor's death (albeit much more indirectly/later than Gauvain's), and Elfangor is left with basically nothing but his honor, and...IDK, I have a type, that's all.
It's been pointed out by many (including in one of the English-language forwards) that one of the main themes of Quatrevingt-Treize is "is mercy sometimes a bad thing?" Most notably, Gauvain shows mercy to not-great dude Lantenac, and has to accept the consequences. Ditto Tellmarch. The Bonnet Rouge shows mercy to Michelle and her kids, who aren't bad guys, but this winds up putting them in trouble. Etc.
Well, in Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor is responsible for creating Visser Three...by refusing to kill thousands of defenseless Yeerks in the transport ship. And like, even if not all of them are Lantenac-level villains, they're on the Taxxon homeworld as part of a war to create a slave empire.
Visser Three brings about Elfangor's death (albeit much more indirectly/later than Gauvain's), and Elfangor is left with basically nothing but his honor, and...IDK, I have a type, that's all.
