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>the villain wasnt evil he was just being strung along by outside forces beyond his control, he never had any real agency or conviction in his heart
Why does this keep happening? All it does is undermine everything from arcs to now having to come up with a sensible reason for why these external forces even cared enough to go through with it. I’d take a hundred Palpatines or evil fantasy dark lords or power-hungry maniacs like Loghain over these subversive and deconstructive archetypes.