Thread:SpiritedDreaming/@comment-4141313-20191018025135/@comment-4141313-20191018031030

It's human. Its human to want to cherish the only person you have left in your life and not want them to do something that can get them killed. It's human to hold the person who enticed them into throwing their life away responsible for their death.

And you seem to ignore that its not even that he supports Salem, he's only on her side cause they share a common enemy: ''Ozpin. And it was never even said that it was a Grimm ''that killed Gretchen. It have been anything. Only thing specified was that it was a training mission. Ya know, the kind that all students go on in their first year?

The wording just says Gretchen died on a mission. And according to the commentary of Volume 5, what we learned about Hazel and Ozpin's conflict was only a piece of their issues. All the Amity Arena information is explains Hazel's feelings on the subject. He has literally nothing left to live for, is blaming the man who convinced his sister to take up the job that got her killed, and now he wants nothing more than to know why Ozpin did anything, why he still keeps trying no matter how much he falls.

Hazel is pretty much already a dead man walking, content to keep doing this until Ozpin either fesses up or he himself dies. He's ultimately acting human. It would be petty if he was killing Ozpin repeatedly over something like Ozpin snubbing him at a party. The definition of petty afterall is "of little importance; trivial". But Gretchen's life wasn't that for Hazel. Yes, on a grandscale that is this endless war, her life could be called trivial, but the same could be said for anyone's life outside of Ozma or Salem's. Yet I doubt Yang would be called petty should Ruby die due to following Ozpin. Nor would Jaune for being enraged over what happened with Pyrrha.

Hazel's motive isn't petty. It's personal. It's human. And honestly, his motive is one of the only complex ones among the villains known short of Salem's herself and possibly Mercury's. Emerald is just abandonment issues and devotion. Cinder's is power hungry. Tyrian is religous fervor. Neo's is close to Hazel's now just with Roman. Roman's was simple survival. Mercury's was being raised in a toxic environment by an abusive father and knowing nothing more pushing him into a vicious cycle. And we all know Salem's.

The only reason I hold umbridge is because from what I've seen, you are one of the most rational and sympathetic users on the wiki. So this seemed OOC coming from you.