Interesting comment. I like people who try to dig deeper into the dynamics of the story, and well, I share the same feelings. It feels like everything is heading down a path of hopelessness. I mean, for now we can’t really see the consequences of our choices reflected in something like “the kingdom will become poorer because of this,” but imagining the future, it seems that almost every choice eventually leads to the nation’s downfall. The dragon promised liberation from the oppression of the former ruler, yet look at what we have now: a cataclysm creating chaos across the world; a king who married his own daughter and accepts aberrations as normal.
So what do I believe? That the cataclysm is a reflection of Malice’s own will. The changes seem to satisfy her because they are indirect manifestations of reality itself being altered, so much so that she is probably the only one who can stop it. As for her personality, I like her the way she is. Malice is not an ordinary being; she met her own father before she was even born, and she prevented her mother from becoming pregnant a second time before she herself had even grown up. In a way, that adult Malice is who she truly is, the childhood phase was just that… childish. This selfish, narcissistic, sadistic side, with an Electra complex (an excessive need for affection, love, and validation from her father), is part of her, and I like her that way.
However, that doesn’t mean she should be free to do whatever she wants to the world and bring misery upon it. She promised change, not destruction. I hope we can reach a different ending for this world, one without the suffering we’re seeing now.
