When I say conflicted about, I mean as an audience member you can't confirm your feelings about a character one way or another. This is not a thread for characters you totally love, or for characters that you hate with a passion of a 1000 burning suns. It's a thread where you feel both those feelings at the same time.
You can post your own thoughts without reading my 2 picks first so go for it. Sorry for being so wordy.
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So anyway I will start with my list and give reasons why I feel that particular way about them. I may also put in some things that are slightly spoilery so I will give warning to people who are interested.
Scorpious of Farscape (Television show)
In the begining, I hated this character. He is evil, obsessively driven and will do anything to reach his goals. For quite while I just chalked it up to he's evil and power hungry.
For those who don't know Farscape, Scorpious was like the most evil villains I had ever seen in television.
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Usually that is about all you get from characters like him. But then the writers of Farscape give him a back story, which is very sad and dark. But then people can still be evil and power hungry with a sad back story, right?
Then we find out he is trying to save his mother's people. By getting his hands on this amazing weapon John Chrichton has, Scorpious can save his mother's people from being destroyed. It's not about self agrandizement at all (at least in his mind).
Even though he makes John' Chrichton's life a living hell, and does not ask for anything nicely for some reason I understand his obsessive determination.
SPOILER stuff
Also it's very interesting, he never knew his mother, but in certain reconstructed flash backs, we find that he himself has imagined that his mother would be sympathetic toward Peackeepers. As an audience member we know the same information he knows about his mother. She could hate Peacekeepers for all we know. I think I find it interesting that in Scorpy's cold calculating heart that he wishes he could make amends for what happened to his mother, that is what is driving his obsession. Not want for power or self agrandizement.
He feels this way, not even knowing if she loved him back or not. *sniffle*
So even though I want to hate him for make the crew of Moya's life a living hell, I still sort of care about him and I sympathize with his goal. (Or at least the emotional justification for it). Every time I see Scorpious on screen I am pretty torn.
Yuko Ichihara from xxxHolic and Tsubasa Chronicles (Manga)
Yuko Ichihara is a very interesting character, she can grant any wish for a price. At the begining of xxxholic she gets this indentured servant boy Watanuki (she tricks the poor teenager into it). She is pretty silly and basically makes the poor boy do a lots of house keeping, cook her fancy dinners and give her alchohol.
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CRUCIFER DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER
For people who are never gonna read the manga go ahead!!!
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A lot of bad things happen to Watanuki and the audience realize that a lot of Yuko's attitude is front to protect Watanuki. She even says she loves him sort of. (Not romantic, but platonic mentor kind of love). Eventually Yuko tells Watanuki to leave his house and sleep in her room, since the situation is getting worse and she dosen't want him to know.
We also find out that there are wishes Yuko will not grant since the price would be too high and it would it would seem to violate her moral code.
So basically all through the story I have loved the character of Yuko.
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Crucifer you better not be reading this.
THEN, in Tsubasa Chronicles (she is a cross over character) we find out that she has done something horrible to Watanuki (and it's recent). Basically he paid a horribly high price to grant a wish. Watanuki gives up all of his memories as a price for a wish to help someone.
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My reaction after reading that I was like Yuko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could you take away the boy's precious memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Crucifer you better not read this either.
I was so shocked and devastated by what she did I don't trust her anymore. In fact I hate her for what she did.
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I would love to know what everyone thinks, and you guys can critique my choices too. (I have more but this post is long enough already). Let me know if I was too sensitive about spoilers. I'll turn some of the text black if people think it's not spoilery.