<Snipped quote by Cyclone>
There's a point, I feel, where you may start pushing it a little too far, and for no apparent advancement of the plot.
I would never!
I'm merely a trope supremacist! I simply go for the best tropes, and as many of them as I can cram into one post. *mumbles about how you're implying my edgy tropes are too much*
In an actual seriousness that I lacked before, I'd challenge your logic. From what I gather you just think the child sacrifice had no narrative value and was only in there for 'edginess', but one could say the same for Lifprasil being androgynous, Belvast being a cat, and Bjorn existing in the first place.
Sometimes you just gotta be whimsical to bring something random and different, y'know? Unless it's constant and recurring I don't find myself annoyed with edginess.