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kapuchukapuchu said
Theá had been running around the town for the entire time she was fighting, checking for any survivors. The only living ponies she found were cultists. They attacked her, and she retaliated. Old Hoof was abandoned and infested with nothing but undead and cultists, so she didn't kill innocents. I have no justification for Crashing or Torrential, but let's just say that there's this whole "wrath of God" thing going on. When they get mad it's off the scale. So, of the three you have listed, the only mortals Theá has killed attacked her first. She adopts the philosophy of the predator, that she kills for two reasons: To protect, or to feed, and I've stuck with that. It's for the same reason that she doesn't just impale Scalpel, because she's not sure of his guilt yet. She suspects, yes, but unless she's sure she won't do anything. But, still, they're Gods. The individual pony, or a few hundreds of them, means very little in the grand scheme of things. I honestly don't think they're all that different from the Christian gods, nor even the gods of any religion. Also, the whole personality thing... Well, we do have that "Divine Flaw" thing :P
Yeah I'd say my Thea argument was the weakest really, I guess I raised it because the last time I had a discussion about Scalpel in here and his motives Bright started monologuing in character and which sort of gave off the idea that the gods have the moral high ground in their reactions.
If I was to be blunt about my character, I don't think he is utterly and irredeemably evil, and most of his actions have largely been not particularly evil asides from some iffy moral principles over whether his frankensteinian actions are actually evil in themselves. Take for instance that most of the people he has killed or reworked into his creations have been almost as bad, if not worse than him. From the beginning we have him killing brutally xenophobic soldiers from the Earthborn, psychotic cultists, and his most recent army has been created out of bandits, looters and rapists. He has refused to actually murder the population of Woodswatch and has left it as alone as he could in that regard, and most of his threats have actually been relatively justified measures against possible betrayal. There is also the point that one of his primary reasons for attaining godhood in the first place is to actually help and protect his niece, and largely he hasn't been involved in killing innocents. There is also the fact that while he is creating Frankenstein like horrors, he actually gives a damn about them -unlike Frankenstein himself- and cares for their wellbeing, and he'd actually be pretty upset if one of them were to get destroyed, especially Lambda and Tsan. You can take is bad history in the Domes as a counter argument to this, but I honestly like to think that I am portraying a relatively complex character who'd actually make people pause and consider him from either side before outright purging him.
I don't know if its particularly effective, but I hope it does show through.