I’m obsessed with Leonide, btw. I’ll probably write more coherent meta-thoughts later nominating her as a new take on the Antagonist Human Ally Who Has a Point archetype, but for now I’m just gonna say: wow. queen. I stan. she did nothing wrong, ever, except for the part where she’s inextricably complicit in colonial/imperial/capitalist atrocities and personally benefits from the enslavement of whole groups of people. she will never learn that what she does is wrong, because the cushy life that provides her beautiful cosmetic surgery and a comfortable life is based on never confronting her moral bankruptcy, and because admitting that she was wrong would be tantamount to admitting vulnerability, and everything in the cutthroat life she’s led up to now has taught her that showing vulnerability is an invitation to become a target.
Leonide is a hashtag girlboss. slay. she made herself strong at the expense of all the bodies of the people she stepped over to achieve her goals. Leonide effectively utilized girl power when she tried to trick the hidden colony into enslaving themselves. i support women’s rights AND women’s wrongs.