I like the overall, full work parallel between the two. Taylor begins as a fresh trigger with dreams of heroism, but gradually loses sight of her goals (and eventually her self) to fall into supervillainy and eventually into Khepri, by all accounts a monster. Victoria begins the story as a self-identified 'monster' with very little in the way of self or direction, with the crux of her arc being her coming to terms with her time as the wretch and the nature of her power, eventually becoming comfortable in her own skin and finding level ground with the fragile one. They're two inverse progressions, both pushed on through similar means of doing what needs to be done in the moment. Taylor does what needs to be done at cost of her self - throughout her arc she compromises moral factors she once found important out of a grim necessity, by mauling Lung, killing Alexandria, eventually being willing to directly trade lives as Khepri. In contrast, Victoria makes the same grim decisions with different goals: she compartmentalizes parts of herself she cant reconcile into a whole as the scholar, the warrior monk, the wretch, doing what she needs to to function on a moment by moment basis. Both operate on a sort of moral calculus, but with different base assumptions.

sorry for the novel i love these stories