It is generally the case where anything Good or Evil is regarded as someone else’s problem until it directly hinders the self… and matters of Law are almost always a hindrance.

Naturally, there are personal quirks. Certain things that a person can hate or love regardless… but the greater context of such things is usually irrelevant. If a Chaotic Neutral character hates slavery, it doesn’t necessarily mean they give a toss about the slaves themselves in any given instance… It probably just reminds them of an unpleasant experience of their own.

The funny thing is… a Good character will generally kill someone just for being “Evil”. A Lawful character may kill someone for doing something illegal. But if a Chaotic Neutral character kills someone, it is almost always personal.

I never really got that anyway. Isn’t a savage beating suffficent? Must one go full rape? It’s like… going that direction invalidates their ability to fight, or be seen as one of the strongest fighters because it renders the fight part meaningless by reduces them to their sexuality in yet another way.

Or in this case, another author would turn the wicked nuns into some sort of lesbian sex cult. Let’s… let’s just keep it at evil nuns who muscle their way into control.

To the authors: there is an underlying theme in a lot of literature – comics, novels, and short stories alike – that in order to show a female character truly beaten down (as close as Frigga ever was to that) that she must have sex forced on her as part of it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for avoiding that path. Frigga was brutalized, and that is terrible… but not in such a stereotypical way that can, in spite of itself, further the rape culture that so dominates too many parts of the world today.

That you make these strong women characters (thanks, Joss) and then give them struggles without needing to rely on that terrible crutch is only part of why this is now one of my favorite comics on the web.

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote