Talk:Hazel Rainart/@comment-5136196-20190905012213/@comment-4141313-20190905174701

Honestly, this context makes me like Hazel ''more. ''Hazel's beef with Ozpin is ultimately the same beef RWBYQ had with him after Jinn spoke with them.

It's not even the fact Gretchen made a choice, its the fact Hazel knows Ozpin long knew about this eternal war, a war between demigods, monsters, and sorcerors, a war that has made zero actual progress for either front until recently, and yet still convinced Gretchen to throw her life away. Hazel only had Gretchen, and learning that Ozpin effectively sent her to die, he's become a fatalist. If nothing ever changes, why try? If hope is lost, why try hoping again? The only reason Hazel had for living he feels Ozpin damned by giving her a false hope. So now he wants to know from Ozpin: Why does he keep trying? Why does he let people throw their lives away for a cause that ultimately is meaningless in his eyes. Why does he lie to them and say there is a choice and that there is hope, when all he sees is death and despair?

He's ultimately a man broken now that he's lost his only reason for living. Who does that sound like again? Oh yeah: ''Jaune and Neo. ''Both have lost someone precious to them, for Jaune it was his partner and the woman who believed in him when no one else did, for Neo it was the only family she had. And look what happened to them after they lost them: Jaune become recklessly suicidal, willing to throw his life away so long as he could help the others and put and end to Cinder, while also pinning the blame on Ozpin for allowing Pyrrha to throw her life away. Neo hunted down Cinder all across Anima and attempted to claim her life as revenge, and while working with her now to go after Ruby, its painfully obvious she's just waiting for the opportunity to backstab her.

They're all similar in one regard: They had One Thing, and without that, they're broken, the only thing driving them forward now being the memories of the ones they've lost.