This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.
she sacrifices herself to kill the last living god in their world.
I don’t think she ever really does value her appearance like you assume. At most she realizes there’s more to life than survival, whether it’s because of her beau or not. He’s just one aspect she finds in life to make it worth living.
This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.
This is an odd card to play because she also murders a lot of people and mentally dominates an entire race.
I think, compared to these absolute crimes against humanity, that her journey to self-actualization seems an odd nit to pick.
She’s basically traumatized up until
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she sacrifices herself to kill the last living god in their world.
I don’t think she ever really does value her appearance like you assume. At most she realizes there’s more to life than survival, whether it’s because of her beau or not. He’s just one aspect she finds in life to make it worth living.
I don’t remember the appearance of either Vin or Spensa being in any way an important or even relevant piece of the stories.
The entirety of the focus was on what the girls were doing, not how they looked.