Talk:Uriel (Starcross)/@comment-28644276-20190206000541

I always found hard to rate the characters in the second part of Starcross as good and evil. To an extent, when it comes to people like Uriel, it's almost like they have a "directive" deeply engraved in their beings that pretty much defines what they are.

It's sort of like a machine programmed to do such or a weapon designed for a purpose that they thoroughly follow since it's the one thing they have been made to do - and their personality itself can only be constructed around that initial pillar.

In Uriel's case, the trigger of that gun - as you called her a weapon - was the punishment of sinners and there was someone constantly pulling it while simultaneously leading her to do it herself more and more.

Her "deliverance of justice", and eventually even her sadism are all constructed and become her personality because that's literally the one starting point/foundation of her personality and she went from there.

It feels odd, but I couldn't expect her to turn out any differently from a killer who finds joy in what she does because otherwise I could say technically it wouldn't be Uriel. If a weapon made for killing can't stop killing unless it's broken to pieces entirely and made into something else.

Considering she was crafted as such and for a purpose, she only enhanced her original calling for existence and kept growing around this root: Punishment of those deemed as "Sinners". There's no greater joy to someone who is made around a purpose to fulfill it and - if possible - fulfill it as perfectly as possible.

That way, she is made a villain - doubtlessly one of the more ruthless ones that you can't sympathize with - but she feels more to me like something that I see as devoid of morals than inclinated towards evil. Almost mechanical (if I could make some manner of comparison with a famous antagonist, I'd say something like the Terminator.)