#and when he reveals his tragic backstory to make himself sympathetic to miles

[hellphrog]

Just watched the spiderman movie. Miguel is a universe vampire who feasts on anomalies. Yall heard it here first.

[lady-byleth]

It really pisses me off how desperate Falcom is to somehow make Osborne into a tragic figure and loving father instead of an actual monster who thought starting a world war and the fucking apocalypse to get rid of the curse was a good idea

Like, the ends don't always justify the means.

There's a good comparison to he made to Crow here, who also didn't exactly keep his vest clean.

But Crow at least tried to avoid collateral damage at every turn, was a well established character before his betrayal, had a sympathetic backstory and spent his time as an Immortal trying to constantly sacrifice himself to give Rean a leg up against the enemies.

Crow managed to counter balance the terrorist leader actions with the heroic actions enough that, at least in my opinion, the heroic ones came out on top. From the beginning he worked with Vita to try and avoid the Great Twilight. His identity had to essentially be deleted and Azure Siegfried had to take over for him to do the opposite

Osborne's "redeeming qualities" all come way too later, after destroying thousands of lives, starting a world war, after so much death and destruction before we learn it's allegedly in the name of "salvation" that it just doesn't work

The entire time he's played as a straight up villain until suddenly, after 4 games, they pull a 180 and try to make him a tragic hero instead.

Osborne revealed to Rean he was his father moments after Crow, someone who meant the world to him and literally threw every good thing away to get revenge, bled out in his fucking arms

Why should Rean cry over this guy who never treated him like anything but a war asset, when Crow's life falling apart, his betrayal, everything Rean experienced in North Ambria, Siegfried's existence and Millium dying were all direct results of Osborne's actions?

If you want a tragic villain at least go the extra mile to make him likable before he becomes irredeemable