User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Ozpin, the great and powerful/@comment-10390252-20140831163030

I've long got the impression that he's a Dumbledore mixed with an Obi-Wan - A fantastically powerful and good man but one who is as humanly fallible as any other man and has to keep reminding himself of it.

He's made mistakes - wasted lives, trusted those who should not be trusted, aided the rise to power of those who should not have power and prevented the empowerment of those who deserved it more. He's doing the best he can but, in the end, he has feelings. He doesn't want to see the age of peace to end and he may be reluctant to admit that the world is changing when that means that more of his 'children' will die. Instead, he is clinging to the hope that the diaster can be averted or at least put off for another generation.

He isn't amoral but, in the end, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. He'll throw pieces into the fire if that's the price of saving the world and will never forgive himself for acting on the necessity. It's happend enough times that he is growing tired of the pain of it and this may be affecting his judgement.

He is a man with friends but not all of them are necessarily good ones (*coughIronwoodcough*). He tries not to lock himself into a self-doubt loop but things have gone wrong enough times that it is difficult to avoid it sometimes.