Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24032889-20180824180130/@comment-24032889-20180919050135

Helpy Central wrote: RaijingRising, I think Ilia lacks character and was only placed there to just be queer, that's why I don't like her. But if they develop her character further then I will be cool with it. I don't quite understand. Ilia got like... more character development than anyone else did in V5. She had her ideological/morality struggles against Blake's standpoint and accepted Blake's view in Ep10, eventually aiding in the fight against the people she was working for at the beginning of the Volume.

She had a whole level of agency and involvement in the Menagerie conflict, and she was the one person who could truly determine its fate. (Does she aid the attack? Does she warn Blake of it? Does she kill the Belladonnas or does she go against the Albains plans?). Her being a lesbian was just a side comment (that means a lot to her and to the LGBT+ community, but it means nothing to the plot moving forward).