Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37680531-20181201202958/@comment-28100269-20181202072656

My opinion of her has definitely expanded. First of all, just to be clear, all the events that occurred are certainly still her fault. It's hard to say it's entirely her fault or even the gods' fault because even though they didn't help her, they did pity her...but then she decided to trick them as well as try to kill them.

That being said, I can understand why she may think it's the gods' fault and why she thinks she is entitled to her opinions. Salem's life very blatantly sucks. She was in solitary for her whole life and when she got out, the love of her life died. So, if we go by the idea that the people in her world's lives are decided by the gods, then I can understand why Salem thinks she entitled to demand happiness. Salem's skewed, and selfish mindset continues even to "current" times where we see the difference in viewpoints between Salem and Ozpin/Ozman. She had gone through all that hardship, been "bullied" by the gods, and is finally finally together with him again only for him to reject her and her beliefs (which stem from yanno, him dying in her hands so many times).

As third-party viewers though, we can also see how the demise of mankind, the multiple deaths of Ozman, and even Ozman's rejection of her is entirely due to her own choices. If she accepted the life god's words on the first go, she could be happily with him in the afterlife and Ozman wouldn't have to eradicate Salem. Similarly, had she told Ozman the actual truth of all she sacrificed for him, he probably wouldn't have suddenly betrayed her.

All in all, her definition of fairness is "fairness to HER" whereas the gods believe in "overall fairness to everyone". That's why they keep punishing her despite her horrible life as well as why the gods and Salem can't understand the other side's beliefs.