Re: Getting your work critiqued (but by whom?)

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James A. Donald:
> > Ashiki (hero) asks Eboshi(villain) if she will continue  
> > spreading fear and despair, and she answers yes,

"m.baro"
> I don't see Eboshi as a villain, really. She's taken in 
> social rejects (old prostitutes, lepers) and given them 
> something to do. That makes her a good person, in my books. 
> Sure she's destroying the forest, but only as a means of 
> survival for her and her clan.

But other people already possess and need the forest that she 
needs.   She rather casually kills someone for trying to 
replant trees.  She is not a simple, uncomplicated villain -- 
she is creating and sharing wealth, not just confiscating it, 
but she takes, she destroys, and she kills, and she kills 
without any very good reason, which makes her quite
unambiguously a villain, even if a somewhat complicated one. 

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