- Sep 8, 2020
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I don't see the Queen as a sadist.Noo... on the contrary: I hate sadists and she is one of them. I can only be a sadist towards people who tortures other people when they don't really deserve it. I believe in punishment but it has to be proportional to the crime that was committed and she takes their eyes out and torches them with a flame thrower for just attempting to do crimes and not actually committing them. That's all. I'm actually an asshole but a very compassionate asshole and I think I wouldn't have the balls to actually torture her or anybody in real life.
I see her as an immature ruler who has few 'good' mentors to help her lead a society beset on all sides by danger.
Over the top punishments in your eyes, and by current RL standards of crime and 'appropriate' punishment, are Not the standards used in that part of the world, post apocalypse.
In RL medieval history, a harsh punishment - drawing and quartering someone - was deemed 'reasonable' for those times.
Royalty used it for addressing treason and - add in hanging first, then drawing and quartering - to set the boundaries of acceptable behavior so their society clearly understood what was acceptable and what was not.
There is a difference between a sadist and being ruthless.
IMO - the queen is being ruthless because she feels like this is the only way forward.
I see the MC and Shani as having the ability to not just have sexy time with the queen but to give her valued counselors who are not going to try to dethrone her.
IMO - as the queen grows more comfortable and secure in the support of the MC and Shani (And her kingdom becomes more secure), she can afford to be more lenient in terms of the punishment of many crimes.
We'll have to see more of the story to see if this proves to be true/how this plays out.
Cheers!!