Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-37320542-20181111065404

BlizzardDragon wrote: Ya know, its kinda funny how different the Gods of Light and Darkness are.

The God of Light attempts to appear as if he deals in Absolutes. He pitied Salem when she first came, but refused to bring Ozma back, so when Darkness revived him, he sought out to kill him. When it came to punishing Salem, he made her immortal so she could never reunite with Ozma till she learned a lesson. When the gods left Remnant, he just faded away, leaving no trace of his presence. When he revived Ozma, going against his former decision when the worst Salem did at the time was not keep control over the Grimm, he basically said "Make Remnant a Utopia and we'll return, fail and we nuke your asses."

The God of Darkness however seems to run on pure Emotion. When Salem approached him and didn't inform him she visited his brother, he pitied her and revived Ozma. When Light tried to countermand his decision, he attacked Light in rage, only stopping when he learned Salem was told no by Light. When Salem was punished, he did nothing. When the Humans revolted, he expressed sorrow of them betraying the Gods, took the Magic away, then killed all of humanity in a burst of anger. And when Salem still tried to demand they stay, he expressed pity over her still demanding things of them, and left by fragmenting the moon, ensuring a trace of him was left. Light says he agreed with him on Ozma's mission, but we have no idea if this is true.

They're both still massive dicks for threatening to commit genocide if the world isn't a utopia and cursing Salem with immortality and making Ozma fix their mess, but its funny how I find Darkness, the one who killed most of Humanity, the more sympathetic one.

I mean, had Salem approached him first, none of this would have happened. Had Light not countermanded his decision, none of this would have happened. Most of his actions seemed like spur of the moment ones rather than thought out acts of cruelty. The fact he even expressed pity and sympathy for Salem and acted on it rather than spew platitiudes says something. The gods are more like humans all right, just Darkness is the most human of the two. Frankly I agree witih Light's decision to firmly NOT revive Ozma. Regardless of how fair it is, death is final, and it shouldn't be any other way. However, I do wish the God of Light did more to sway her away from reviving Ozma, like maybe convincing her to cherish his memory and be as happy as she could be or something like that. As for what you construe as pity from the God of Darkness, I personally view more as indifference, except for when he revived Ozma, which is oddly kind of him, but he did say he did it mostly on a whim. When he destroyed humanity, it felt far more like, they're using my gift against me? Sucks, Imma destroy them. Also, he seems quite petty and spiteful, crashing into the moon and causing an extinction event just because he coudl.