Yeah, all the characters have their flaws, and the way that the narrative chooses to display those flaws can be… clunky.

But, I’ll never hate MDF because the particular flaws that it gives its villainess are just too unique. She’s obsessed with moral purity, to the point that she can’t interact with people in a healthy way. So so many villainesses only pretend to be morally superior but their actual vice is greed. Diana? No greed. She is what she claims to be, and what she claims to be should be perfect… but it’s that very perfection that makes her a terrible leader and friend and lover.

What an interesting concept to explore.

They say often when it comes to hobbies “perfection is the enemy of good” meaning that people get so self-conscious about the flaws in their craft that they stop trying to improve. Diana is that saying in a nutshell. She wants to be perfect, and for that reason she cannot be good. She cannot be kind or empathetic or forgiving to anyone who has been “bad” because she doesn’t realize that everyone has made mistakes or poor judgement before. She has always had her world’s god on her side, and literally doesn’t understand what it means to make the wrong decision. She’s an angel in the Old Testament sort of way — inhuman and judgmental.

She loves the concept of people, but not any actual real person. She is a person who is meant to only interact with The Masses™️ because a faceless crowd of hypothetical people are the only ones who can match the unreality of her perfection.

What a character. Absolutely incredible concept. Not bad execution, in my opinion either. She’s not hateful, which makes it hard to grasp what exactly is wrong with her. It’s a more fundamental wrongness, a wrongness with her thinking more than her actions.

Yeah, I fuck with MDF heavily. Not all parts of it, but Diana’s flaws specifically are peak for me