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al's characterization makes plenty of sense to me, including his attitude and actions, idk if i'm missing something ya'll are seeing? all of him being angry and poo poo is just a front for getting anis to kill him and inherit the throne as the only option - he's willingly throwing himself on the sword to force her to be the ruler because by all reasonable standards, she should be. he recognizes she inherently will change the power dynamic between commoners and nobility but also fully recognizes that the current nobility will execute her on the spot and overthrow the kingdom if she was to get within 10 feet of the throne because of the very nature of nobility hording power in the most literal sense to themselves. like, they make a note from lanie that even with the wounds healing, the pain stays in full and he's powering through it not out of a sense of blind rage or jealousy or whatever. he's literally martyring himself to the throne so a commoner's revolution can take place regardless of the pain it brings him because the only way that he sees a way out is with his death- either by her hands or through a royal execution for inciting a revolution with the nobles who would be the center of any traditionalist usurping of power. it's being applied in both a literal, physical manner and through the intent of his actions at a larger scale. when he says he hates everything, he means himself as well - the responsibility he has as royalty to 'fix' the future of the kingdom rather than being allowed to live happily as family. it's his 'duty' to do everything in his power to make sure there's a future for the people, especially those who are weak or 'different' like his sister. when he talks about being able to care for others and change things through genius, he's talking out of a place of self-loathing. he knows that better people with better ways because of anis, but if everything fails and he's the only option left, the only path he sees is killing a shitload of innocents to reinforce his rule because he knows he's ultimately that limited as a person. his whole deal is basically planning for all potential outcomes - if his plan is successful and he suicides-by-family then he would've been able to point out every single potential 'problem' noble which would get them executed and if he failed and had to take the throne, he'd just kill them all himself and anyone who tried to stop him, including a bunch of innocent bystanders who get caught in the crossfire. to even get on that path, he has to kill the girl he loves because of the burden of royalty and the 'greater good' - he's so limited that he can only pull it as a train problem. i think it works pretty good as a companion piece to how euphilia sees anis as this manifestation of freedom and being true to herself no matter what. al's a fella who is basically the direct result of someone who doesn't believe he has the luxury to be himself or live freely as a result of anis doin' her own thing. he wants to protect that, at all costs, even his own life. like, it's not a turn from angry to remorseful, he's not remorseful at all which is why he has the attitude after his defeat. he was trying to die to the greater good and ended up failing at that, even. he's pouring his heart out at the only person in the world who would really get what he was aiming for. he's not a lovestruck, depressed teenage boy at all - he's someone who has been spending his entire life trying to come up with an answer to a society that is falling apart at the seams due to the greed of the few taking what little happiness he can until his hand is forced by the nobles he despises bc they're about to overthrow the kingdom anyways i thought it was pretty good! keeping him in the dark as this antagonistic figure rather than trying to showcase a mystery would pretty much cut all the tension loose from the fight because it'd be very easy to guess from the getgo what his goals were. it also ties to the nature of how anis lives, totally detached from the world and others for better or worse. it ups the tragedy that stems from her deliberately not having a wide enough scope to really 'grasp' what's going on with someone so close to her despite how easily "solvable" it would've been with some communication. i guess the main thing is the detachment from the general world means you don't really get a lot of that until these last couple of episodes so it feels like all the dramatic tension for anis's situation kinda springs up outta nowhere.
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