Talk:Overlord Volume 12/@comment-34596385-20180207105753

I sensed the very thick of rationalization of everything that ainz did, especially in this volume. So to make them look good, that rationalization was. In my personal opinion, it's one of the flaw that this series has as LN. Too much rationalization may lead to unnatural plot, thin plot etc.

But this volume has its own interesting things that caught my attention. In my personal perspective, one of the interesting things in this volume is.....we can see two forms of stupidity yet they differ in a polar opposite way, like 'north' and 'south'. One of them is Remedios' stupidity (personally i can relate with her actions and way of thinking after Jaldabaoth killed her significant others) and the other is Neia's stupidity.

Remedios stupidity came from her stubbornness of her ideals and couldnt compromise any condition with it - then the results were what we read. Instead of evolving and moving forward, she stubbornly insisted on her own ideals which next to impossible to achieve. If there was something happened outside of her expectation, she would blame others (displacement....or what is it called again? blaming others because her own inability to do something about one condition). Remedios' stupidity took form as stupidity that went in-out, eating her own self from inside to outside.

Neia stupidity came from her thirst of psychological needs - then at the very precise moment, Ainz came bringing her a full, huge bottle of fresh water. Then Neia blinded with his 'amazingness'. After that many rationalizations came to her trying to explain facts which happening in front of her. With Remedios becoming a truly example of the foolishness itself in Neia's eyes, Neia couldnt help but to see another solution - that was Ainz. She became mesmerized by Ainz. Anything what he did was rationalized as a right thing to do. As a better thing to do. Neia's stupidity took form as stupidity that went out-in, made anything what her idolized figure did as the right thing to do - eating herself from outside to inside.

Well, that's my opinion anyway, which i want to share ~