You Judge Miko (OOTS)

[Nifft]

She's fallen so hard, she's going to be looking up at Satan's corn...s. Corns. On his feet. Yeah, that's it.

-- N

 

[Henry]

Miko's first sin, and the one which ultimately leads to her downfall, is that of pride. Her belief that she was so far above the causes of those around her, from the Order of the Stick up to Shojo himself, that she and her society was inherently better than what anyone else could possibly offer. This assumption that she was superior to pretty much everyone else she's met was what ultimately blinded her to what was the good path to take.

With those pride-blinders on, she couldn't see anything but herself.

 

[Thanee]

I guess there's a reason why they made this legislative-jurisdiction-execution split-up.

Bye
Thanee

 

[brehobit]

I'd say she could atone, but yes.

Mark

 

[Gez]

She fell and left a crater. If she wants to atone, the quickest way for her would be to grab a shovel and dig up to the antipodes!

 

[LogicsFate]

Sigh, no. I dislike the Miko character. I'm suppose to dislike her. All that aside I don't think it quite enough for a fall. If she relises the truth she'll feel bad and sacrific herself in one of the upcoming battles.
"A Paladin must Knowingly commit an evil act." She gets the ignorance defense in my book, since she thinks she's doing the right thing.

O, and "No" #6

 

[Sejs]

How did that go again? Pride goeth before ... something something.


Yeah. She falls. Big time. Brought it upon herself.

 

[Gez]

"A Paladin must Knowingly commit an evil act." She gets the ignorance defense in my book, since she thinks she's doing the right thing.

I think the "knowingly" refers to "committing the act", not to "understanding the act was evil."

If a Paladin, adventuring in a dungeon to save some token innocent-orphaned-damsel-in-distress, walks on a pressure plate that triggers the fall of said innocent in a big shark-infested vat of acidic lava; he committed an evil act (killing the innocent), but unknowingly (he didn't detect the pressure plate and did not know it would trigger the death machine).

Now, if he walks up to the room where the innocent is being kept, then somehow start to believe she's actually the villain in disguise and murder her, the act is still evil, and this time it's committed knowingly.

 

[DaveMage]

The avalanche has already started.

It is too late for the pebbles to vote...

 

[drothgery]

We've seen other paladins with other intrepretations. Rich isn't pandering to paladin-haters, he's just letting Miko represent one interpretation of paladinhood.

I guess it seems to me that if you liked kick-butt-and-take-names paladins, up until the strip where she put the OotS in chains, you could make a very good case that she was a fun character who added to the strip. After that, she was an over-the-top Lawful Annoying paladin. And it didn't seem like there was any reason for it, other than a lot of message board commenters saying they hated Miko.

So I'm rather hoping for no lame Miko-as-blackguard plots, that she submits to arrest, Hinjo has his uncle Raised, and that she gets a chance to atone.