Talk:Salem/@comment-37168446-20190310005512/@comment-35434444-20190529071138

@ Alhazad2003

Not on her own power, no. But the relics are the manifestation of the divine power on Remnant. Combined with the corrosive properties of the black pool and haveing studied a sample of the god of light's power in the form of her own immortal body, Salem not only has every reason to kill Ozpin but is the only person in existance who is capable of it.

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But you're right in that even thouse powers alone aren't enough. The rage Salem once had has taken on a different character. Rather than raging and crusading all over the place, she is more quiet. Sedate. Contemplative. Having seem her complete inability to do anything other than make her situation worse, she has come to a point of stillness and finally asked the question, "What do I want?"

In the beginning, the answer would have been freedom. But having given it some thought, Salem would understand that if she was free in the way she had always envisioned, she would have been no different than the gods themselves. (Part of the reason why she immitated them.)

But what did the gods do with thier power? They created her and the unjust world she lives in. Why in blazes would they do that? To watch her suffer? If that were the case, why allow her any happiness at all? Well obviously if she was born into a hell like this she would have no point of reference from which to say it was hell. So logically, the purpose of creating pleasure was to facilitate the existance of pain.

But then...might not the opposite be equally true?

Perhaps then it would hit her. That you can't have the one without the other.

So then, along with that she would understand her mistake. And with that understanding in hand, another psychological change would beging to take root to compliment the physical changes. She would see that Ozma was suffring though everything she had suffered of his own free will. To save her all over again. For that reason, though part of her suspects that it is the answer to her curse, the depths of her sins overwhelm her and she forgoes any hope of salvation for herself.

The pain of all these years are still a tremendous burden for her and her outward behaviour is even more desperate and erratic knowing that some faint redemption could be waiting at the end of the tunnel.