Talk:Emerald Sustrai/@comment-24698450-20180325054106

I doubt many share this opinion, but even after all that's happened, Emerald is still someone I can't bring myself to hate. All I can feel for her is sympathy and sorrow. In some ways, she seems to me like a human counterpart of Ilia. Both fighting for a dark cause, but not inherently bad either. I feel Volume 5 showed just how similar they are, it's a stroke of neat storytelling to show how different the paths they have now taken are. Ilia has now redeemed herself, while Emerald is still lost, and I have a bad feeling she may stay lost due to her dependence on Cinder, which is giving me the feeling that if she dies, she will remain lost. So unless she does something truly despicable in the future, all I'll is heartache when she dies.