Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
As for life before the conquest of Doma by the Garleans, that isn't really clear. Yosetsu's life story played out after the Garleans took over. Her hatred of the Domans is that they all let it happen. They were all fine with it. Its all good and well for people to cry out about liberty and justice but many of those people did nothing and just looked away when she was thrown into the pit as a child. From her perspective to talk about Justice is the talk of hypocrites. That's not to say what she did was ok or that she should have been aloud to do it. I am not even sure how they could effectively redeem someone both so reviled and so broken inside. It does however throw context to her hatred that makes it more understandable. It is ironic and possibly a result of her upbringing under Garlean rule but never once does she direct her hatred towards Garlemald. There are several times we see people raised under Garlean rule who seem
to take Garlemald as just an unassailable truth.
The only people we know of that were privy to her history were her aunt, brother, husband, the one Imperial soldier, and Gosetsu. We don't even know if the brothel owner knew. Her wanting to torture an entire nation to death because of a handful of people is absolutely insane.