Talk:Zero Requiem/@comment-112.211.255.134-20190114140150/@comment-36273071-20190114213111

Except that his death redeemed for nothing. Death is not redemption. In this case, it even seems more like avoiding any concrete redemption. Had he continued serving as an emperor of justice, ruling in the interest of the common people, righting all the wrongs he commited one by one, it would've been a slow road towards redemption. Had he staged assassination using a body double, then continued supporting Nunnally from the shadows, preserving peace by keeping hostile elements in check, it could've started a different path towards redemption too.

But no. He just wanted to be done with this world, ever since Euphemia died, double so after Nunnally was presumed dead. So he pulled off the most extravagant suicide possible, with the altruistic, far too optimistic goal of bringing down world hatred with him as a secondary concern. And as you can see, the "world peace" caused by it lasted for nary two years before Zilkistan started the whole play all over again.

But I guess that is just a shared viewpoint of the Japanese, or the entire world perhaps. That death redeems. That one man's separation from that which he loves and desires will negate all his sins.