#honestly. id be down for 3rd faction schummer wanting to kill both us and the eclipse

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Schummer is something of an interesting villain to me because she's very much in the wrong for everything she did but it's also a case of "so what, she was supposed to accept her weakness and die?". A lot of Alchemy Stars villains have this distinction in common: They were all disenfranchised people who were looking for a better path and were then targeted to become Eclipsites. It’s always pointed out too that it’s institutionalized inequality that pushes people to this point, where Sinsa himself lamphades it with “hey how come Luminopolis is the one always producing people who choose to become monsters when you guys are by far the least at threat from them?”.  With Schummer, she was the weakest of an already weak race and constantly told that she had to accept it. The adults around her were always dismissive to her plight, her bullies tried to get her killed, and then when she’s the only survivor of that incident they try to frame her for murder and lock her up to starve to death. It’s not really all that much of a surprise she would want every Caelestite fucking dead after that. Every other character and faction always has reverent words for the Caelestites, but we only ever properly see them in Schummers POV. Schummer herself even questioned it as a child, stating that the only reason Caelestites are a peaceful race is specifically because they don’t have any proper combat ability unlike Aurorians that can use Luminatics (magic), and if they could, then Caelestities would easily wage war and conquer others (which seems to be the case in a weird way, since apparently they had a council of elders and these elders were apparently doing some shady shit). Even when Schummer returned fully transformed and tried to save the few people who were at least kind to her, they treated her as a monster and locked her away. 

Navigators revenge becoming slightly different after learning some of this is a smart move, honestly. They don’t hate Schummer for doing what she had to do in order to survive and become powerful, but they can’t excuse the wanton destruction she caused as part of her revenge. So instead of taking the chance to actually kill her themselves, they just choose to ignore her and let her die from her own power. Schummer wanted so badly to be important, and the Navigator will not give her even their revenge.