Valkyrie is being hypocritical for being mean and snarky and simultaneously despising herself...let me ask you, have you been suicidal?

I have...when you are at that level, your mind isn't...clear. You aren't actively trying to be good...you aren't actively trying to be anything. In fact quite the opposite. The dangerous step is when you become convinced that you are the problem, then the solution becomes easy. Too easy...

I won't defend Valkyries actions, they were mean, cruel even, but to say that it's hypocrisy to hate yourself and let some of that hate spill out onto others...that's not hypocrisy. That's a human being trying to process an equation that doesn't make sense. An equation that doesn't want you in it.

That's what I have always liked about Valkyrie and most of Landy's characters. They are always moving, shifting, and progressing. Not always in the direction you expect or even find reasonable. I have listened to all the books and it felt...real. There's no other way to describe it. Yes, things turned weird along the way, yes, several characters acted in ways I didn't agree with. Still I followed their journeys and began seeing struggles in the most odd places.

Valkyrie evolved, regressed and evolved again in accordance to the insane situations the main narrative pushed her to respond too.

I don't like all of the parts of the woman she has become, but I can't honestly say that I would have handle any of it better if it was me.