".........I hate all of you"
Alignment of Askeladd
To take a break from all of the Watchmen fuss, I’ve decided to do another Alignment review, as WG finishes his fallout review and I work on my Exalted. So a short and sweet one for today, from one of my personal favorite/unappreciated comics, Vinland Saga, possible the second best manga out there (first being FMA of course). And because I have limited time, lets go with it. Basically what I like about Vinland Saga is that it has one of the best balances in showing “real” people doing horrible things, but still being sympathetic. The Vikings tend to be portrayed either as mindless savages, or noble warriors in fiction, with little in-between, but this series really does manage to pull off a realistic portrayal. The Vikings are shown in there interactions with each other as kinda fun guys, they are friendly, most are supporting a family, and are brave in the face of danger (that isn’t universal of course, but they are pretty hardcore). We see there comradely, there jokes and there support for each other. We also see them slaughtering innocent English villages, raping women, killing children and selling who is left to slavery, looting an entire village and then killing them to feed there own troops, and generally acting like a bunch of psychotic raiders…..just like real life. And yet they are still able to be enjoyable characters, even as the reader sees there more brutal actions, which is a hard step to take and really does say a lot about this comic’s quality. Askeladd is a good example of this, he is very friendly, easy to get along with people around him and is a pretty fun character to read about. Unlike his Danish comrades, he has a long term goal, of a unified and organized Britain, which some can see as something worth fighting for. And yet, he has murdered anyone who dares get in his way, is in charge of the more brutal raids of the Danes, and kills his own men. So evil. I’d peg him as NE, because while he is Lawful, only when it suits him. Thors on the other hand, is a very good example of Lawful Good
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4 comments:
I've never read FMA. I will when I finish Bleach (and since Bleach is on to something like 40 volumes in Japan and counting, that probably won't be in the near future). But going off of what you said about realistic character portrayal: you have read DeathNote, right? I've had many a debate about Light's alignment. (I actually just did a post about DeathNote.) Maybe your next alignment post should be about Light, eh? :P
I've already actually did the aligniment of Light, he is a little while below. Death note (at least the fist half that actually happened) is a very good manga i think, and it does do that issue. It isn't historical so its not quite the same but I love the fact we are following the tale of an evil bastard with a god complex who is a genius
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Were you around GitP for the big "Light vs. Rorschach" debate, EE?
NO i missed that sadly, what happened?
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