Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31883133-20180114001435/@comment-34633327-20180115014424

ClassicFan92 wrote: 80.192.76.76 wrote: I've mentioned this elsewhere but I think it could be salvageable provided it isn't the only part of his motivation. Gretchen's death is the reason for his animosity towards Ozpin but he may have other reasons for teaming up with Salem, since joining up with someone who plans to commit genocide makes no sense if you want to kill one guy (especially if the person you're teaming up with is related to the monsters that killed Gretchen). So things could get better if they go into more detail. I mean Salem's motivations for genocide are unclear (and while she wants to wipe out humanity, her inner circle are apparently exempt).

I mean we don't actually know Gretchen's death is the reason why Hazel is working for Salem, just why he hates Ozpin. It's assumed but not actually stated. To save the people they care about, some people will go to the very devil to make a deal. Case in point, look at Alister from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series. He essentially did the same thing.

But Alister's was even worse than Hazel's. Alister's brother was killed in a war in his home country, and he blamed Gozaburo Kaiba for supplying military tech to both sides of the war, in a sense, making it go on long enough to make more money. Right there its already messed up in that he is blaming the manufacturer of the weaponry for contuining the war that got his brother killed, rather than the actual armies that were fighting in the first place.

It gets plain dumb though in that he then chose to blame it all on Seto Kaiba since in the public eye Gozaburo was dead. This is in spite of the fact that A.) that its a sins of the father deal, B.) Seto is only his adoptive son who he didn't really care for, and C.) Seto is nothing like Gozaburo. Alister's reasoning was completely ass backwards.