WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-203

Honestly, most powerful people in this story are assholes to some degree, one way or another. Maybe for good reasons, maybe not. Some of them might have been made that way by a horrific past, like Mottom — but, well, Allison already lectured her about not pillaging entire worlds about it. Others might have good intentions with it, Solomon David seems to have been very genuine in wanting the best for Rayuba — but his laws were still overbearingly harsh. Part of what makes Incubus interesting, is how self-aware he is about it, though. He doesn’t make excuses for it like Mottom did, he doesn’t portray it as necessary like Solomon David, he doesn’t try running away from that truth like Maya has done…even looking at what he said to Zoss — “your heaven is rotten, old man” — he doesn’t fall into treating cruelty as something insignificant or meaningless, like how Gog-Agog views pretty much everything. Incubus is cruel, he’s an asshole — and he’s directly acknowledging that fact. Honestly, I’d love to see something about what he would do if he “won”. How he would answer Meti’s question of “what then?”, what it would all be for. Because Jagganoth has already given his own answer, stated his...