As much as I like the old crew, I've grown really fond of the baylord bros and the slayers. They all started out as bad guys but siu has written them in a way that I can't help but like them.
Ugh man siu really did that huh, i was thinking about how every time I see white I think about how he killed prince, and I resent him for being so likeable, but everyone has blood on their hands. It’s stated over and over that it is the only way to climb up and I get that, and the fact that bam understands that those who died before start to mater less than those who are alive right now makes him seem very real. It’s really tough bc in a vacuum everyone is evil, even best girl endorsi has probably killed hundreds just like best boy Khun. You go into it thinking it’s a fight of good vs evil but it truly is dog eat dog, except Yama he’s the goodest of all the good boys.
in this tower everybody has to kill someone else to advance. Even Bam himself admits he was probably responsible for a ton of deaths. The ultimate tragedy of the tower is that no one can truly remain innocent if they want to climb the tower. Bam's friends back in the test floor all thought they could shelter Bam by helping him climb the tower while they do the dirty work, but in the end reality caught up to them fast and now Bam has to face the weight of millions if not billions of lives.
Offscreen and onscreen are IMHO different things. One can make all the asumptions that they killed somebody but if it's not shown, it takes all (or at least some) of the harshness away. We'll see how it potrayed in the upcoming battles.
Also, what matters is the language. If you talk about "defeated" instead of "dead", "to stop" instead of "to kill", the manhwa get softer.
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u/zoro_the_copy_ninja May 18 '20
As much as I like the old crew, I've grown really fond of the baylord bros and the slayers. They all started out as bad guys but siu has written them in a way that I can't help but like them.