I accidentally clicked on this thread and I feel like I'm watching a support group for adults who never learned how to play pretend properly.

You are all frantically applying literary analysis to a narrative that has the emotional depth of a child smashing their action figures together. The "complex lore" you're all so invested in is a bog standard collection of the most tired tropes imaginable. The lonely outcast turns evil. The hero is secretly a moron. A tragic backstory is used to make a villain "sympathetic". This isn't a saga. It is a first draft written by a fifteen year old who just discovered TV Tropes.

The earnestness with which you debate the "character arcs" of these talking PNGs is profoundly embarrassing. Please get a hobby that respects your intelligence, assuming you have any.