Talk:Remedios Custodio/@comment-124.6.152.227-20171028131320/@comment-176.130.31.49-20171222200438

Once again, Reaper Devil's opinion is quite valuable. See folks? That's why you don't want to mess with someone gifted in writting: piss him off, and he will reward you by making you possibly immortal and hated by thousands or even maybe hundreds of millions of people around the world.

But, folks don't seem to understand. That's a failing on the Japanese part, because they make "bands of knights", kishidan, thinking that it sounds Western; instead of Chivalric Orders. Even though most authors, Maruyama sensei included, seems to have misunderstood, the fact still is that the Paladinat of the Holy Kingdom takes a lot from what a fantasy Order of Knights would look like, and it put Remedios in the steely shoes of Grand Master, Magister Magistralis. As such, she is not just an idiot strongwoman, but an examplar for her sworn brethren and a Paragon of Knighthood.

For Medieval people, Chivalry was something very important. It was not a simple military status, it was a true Caste, exercising both a Warrior Function AND a Sacerdotal One. A Sacred bond unit Knigths throughout the world; during a consecrated rite of timeless antiquity, they were granted by Tradition and by a Supernatural authorities the right and legitimacy to bear arms and to mete Justice.

Remedios is acting in a foolish and petty fashion. But she has her own reasons: her whole world is breaking apart, she was traumatized, and Neia is a too easy target to vent out frustration. The fact that many people have a strong reaction of hatred against various characters means that the author is doing a wonderful job, that he is very good at what he is doing... but also that you guys are making fools of yourselves by being so biased, merely because of which point of view the story is told from.

In spite of Neia's subborn defense of AoG, I think it is would have been likely, especially if things had been slightly different (smoother, mayhaps), that Remedios would have felt sorry, and maybe even thought about apologizing to Neia before the end, and maybe even dubbing her herself after the war or any battle into which she would have proven herself. After all, the highest a Knight's reputation is, and the most prestigious are the dubbing he grants, and Remedios, whether you like it or not, is the most exalted Knightess of the Holy Kingdom, and second only to the cheat Goblin Paladin of Enri and a Black Scripture Hero.