I think it's such lovely characterization that even when lightning, hope and fang got violent toward snow in xiii he never ever raised a fist at any of them. He was always the pacifist of the group
It makes it all the more jarring when, in the first scene you see in lr, he's suddenly fighting against lightning, grabbing and yanking her forwards, and scowling at her. It IMMEDIATELY tells you that he's not the same old snow anymore, even without the context of serah's death and his new gloomy design
It’s the year 2023 and people are still mischaracterizing Lightning into some vengeful bloodthirsty woman who gave a knife to an equally bloodthirsty teen to kill a man she isn’t fond of, when in reality she gave said bloodthirsty teen a knife to PROTECT HIMSELF, BEFORE she found out said teen wanted to murder Snow, and that’s when she realized “oh shit what have I done” when she learns what Hope wants to do with it, and tries to talk him OUT of his revenge, and tries to get Hope and Snow to talk to each other. Tired of those takes man.