I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS HERE. This whole part of the game has always - confused me? - because I serious

I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS HERE. This whole part of the game has always - confused me? - because I seriously don’t understand how anyone can consider anything that happened Kain’s actual fault. I really don’t. Dubcon Mind Control and Serious Trickery are epic themes in this game - the King of Baron / Cagnazzo, Kain, Yang, Golbez - so like, how is there still an argument to be made here that Kain is at fault?I feel like its a weirdly complicated thing to make the player “suspicious” of Kain, as if we’ll ~never know~ his true intentions and how much was mind control and how much wasn’t, but – it doesn’t really work for me. Plain and simple. I can recognize that feelings of rivalry and jealous existed between Kain and Cecil over their military places in Baron and the King’s regard. I can also see how their mutual feelings for Rosa - you know, never minding the fact that Rosa has her own agency and made a pretty clear and obvious choice for herself - might have fed into this negativity. That’s a thing, okay, I see it. However, if a Lunarian as magically powerful as Golbez (and we’ve seen him pull out lots of black magic, withstand Meteo, and even Summon) was ensnared by Zemus’ powers, how the fuck could a normal dude like Kain who has absolutely no magical abilities at all be expected to overcome it?Edge’s anger is perhaps understandable because he hasn’t known Kain for very long. But I agree with Rosa in this scene. None of this can really be considered Kain’s fault. I know there’s a lot of headcanon how Kain was mostly in control of himself, and Golbez/Zemus tempted him with things that he wanted and he took a greedy leap to try to get recognition and Rosa, and that’s okay - I just - my interpretation is and has always been that Kain didn’t have control over his anything. I feel like many other scenes show Kain as a loyal and noble friend who’s devoted to both Cecil and Rosa; I find it really hard to believe he’d willingly strike Cecil down for glory without Golbez/Zemus having a more significant grasp on his mind. Fandom’s allowed to disagree - that’s why fandom is fun - but them’s my thoughts. -- source link

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