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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PoeticJustice" data-source="post: 4741193" data-attributes="member: 51788">Call me a flip-flopper, but after the last two strips I don't think V will either kill Xykon or become the big bad. Neither serve the story well enough for Rich to pull the trigger on either of these other wise plausible conjectures.Why are they not "good" enough? We already have at least two similar characters--Redcloak and Miko--who fell from a position of relative grace and can't recover. Adding V to the lot would make sense, but I think there's a bigger payoff for the Giant when he finally introduces a character that successfully overcomes temptation. Further, V is supposed to be a PC. While they occasionally work at odds with the group and disagree over methodology, PCs don't often become major villains.Second, I don't believe V will have time to kill Xykon before the V loses control of the soul splice. This is good, because the proper way for Xykon to die isn't at the hands of V in a mage-duel, but as a result of the Order's combined efforts. Otherwise the emotional payoff just isn't satisfactory for all the effort put into Xykon.</blockquote>