ShadyGroves wrote:
Well that's kind of why I don't like the cannon path Xara. She unquestionably follows orders without questioning those orders or those that give her those orders.
You're judging a wolf for his own nature. Don't you find that very subjective?
ShadyGroves wrote:Morland gave her orders to go after and get Morphus. She did. Without thinking or investigating if Morphus' grievances were just. If she had she might have realized that Morland was double crossing the very people Xara swore to protect as Royal Guard. She eludes to this mistake in one of non cannon paths btw.
No, she eludes to neglect HOW Troy's wound was healed in "a second". She eludes that she should have noticed that and used that information to heal herself faster.
ShadyGroves wrote:When have we in human history heard the excuse. “I was only carrying out my orders as a solider.” We heard it in the 1940s and 1950s the Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity Trial” following WWII.
Since then every Soldiers Oath includes the like that Conscience should superseded a direct order in certain situations.
Don't you think you're exaggerating a bit. Xara, as far as we know, has killed no one except for her enemies in the battlefield. Is a policeman guilty if he arrests a "wanted man" if the guy is innocent?
ShadyGroves wrote:Then there is fact that basically her training in the other realm was tantamount to torture. Then she basically has sword thrust through her and her eyes ripped out. And all her commanding officer thinks about (not the care of the solider btw which every good Commander does) is inflicting more torture (the dream implant) upon her for her failure take down Morland after she's wounded?!?
Basically Xara's home is a hell hole of cruelty and what the heck is she still fighting for it?
You`re jugding an alien universe, of which we know almost nothing, on our universe's moral grounds. And you make it like it's Xara's fault, or at least Xara's responsability to change that.
ShadyGroves wrote:She's been on Earth among Earthlings for a year maybe more. She's seen loving and caring relationships right before her. Surely after a year of seeing how other civilizations live. She'd be questioning her peoples ways?
Instead in the cannon path we get a Xara that's basically a Terminator. A single minded machine that will carry out her orders. An if any of Xara's Angels falls .. Oh well that's just collateral damage.
Without giving away too much. .. for those that haven't played it yet.
But Miranda had very good reason to yell at her in the gym.
Elsa had a very good reason to distrust her.
For indeed Xara canon path considered them as expendable. In her single minded determined effort to bring back Morland. Nor was Xara willing to fill them in on what they were really up against.
The cannon Xara.. lets face it is pretty darn dangerous and dark to her men (Xara's Angels.)
An her civilization. Basically one of cruelty, feudalism Roman like. With the Royal Guard once concerned for one thing obeying the Monarch/Emperor without question. To maintain the status quo. Or else our Dream Masters will punish you for the rest of your life.
Maybe i'' wrong but i think you're being a little too harsh on Xara and maybe on her Realm too, since we know a bunch of nothing about them.
But lets assume they are how you described them. We know that in our universe time flows faster than in their Realm. So, if our civilization is living in Globalism times, their civilisation is still thriving through "Roman Empire civil wars and internal turmoils" times. Considering our Medieval and Modern history, i don't think we're in position to look down on them, are we?
About Xara not feeling attached to Angels. She's raised to love and trust no one but her Commander and she's been betrayed by him. And now you want her to trust and love someone she barely know and doesn`t even understand? I would say her actual reaction is very... human.