Thread:Darkravenlord/@comment-30776383-20161231191412/@comment-30086411-20170101185500

To be fair, in the case of Sengoku Rance, Yukihime definitely is more a minor character than anything, and the... other thing is non-canon^^

As far as Yukihime's CG goes, it was bad, but it didn't me as hard because I kind of considered it tragically inevitable given her storyline. The fact is that her end was the result of a lot of bad decisions that she could have stopped at almost anytime. Spoilers ahead:

To wit: her ordeal starts when Rance, a brutish but powerful stranger asks to sleep with her even as her father was attempting an alliance. As he considers his daughter too precious and the man too vulgar, the usually peace loving lord goes to war. Already I'm thinking, why? He wants to unite everyone through alliances? Well, throughout medieval times daughters and marriages were exactly the way you DID alliances. It wasn't fair or fun for a lot of the couples involved, but that was the way it worked, and certainly preferable to war. And with the most "beautiful woman" he had an unique leverage to ally himself with a certain sex-obsessed warrior^^

Then, a monk shows up and asks for exactly the same thing in exchange for forcibly removing the enemy warriors. At this point it's kind of obvious that she'll have to sleep with someone if they are to get out of this. She has the choice between the brutal warrior lord from another land that will stop the war and a creepy monk from her country that will ALSO stop the war, but by killing a lot more people first.

She picks the second one, which defies logic. Was she more scared of Rance because he was more visibly brutish? Maybe. Did she kind of guarantee that a lot more people were going to die by picking the monk? Certainly. And then when it happens she freaks out when she sees his face, and though she regrets it, it's only because of the power he provides, not because she isn't disgusted by him.

After this she kind of reverts back to passivity, probably too prideful or scared to do the same mistake twice. Since she doesn't act at all anymore, Rance of course happens, and she manages to escape, though sadly she has to go through a lot of hardships for that to happen. But then, refusing to forgive Rance for all that happened to her, she goes on a complete revenge-spree, sleeping multiple times with horrible people to avenge herself and provoking more wars. Once she started down that road, without any support or real allies, there was almost no way this was going to end well è_è She didn't even remotely deserve what happened to her, but she did a lot of bad decisions which allowed it to happen...

Kenshin and Aoi, on the other hand, were great respectable leaders, that were betrayed, raped and killed by a shitty, sexist, petty piece of ****. For absolutely no reason whatsoever except the fact that he was a complete monster :(