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LeBlanc: How empathy can make you more inhuman

Pigeon Blood·6/4/2019, 2:09:15 AM·9 votes·7,376 views

This is more a wishful thinking on who LeBlanc could be as a character. We have known her as this merciless manipulator in the dark, hiding and plotting for unknown reasons. She caused countless political conflicts, enticed many all-out wars and even the Invasion of Ionia by Noxus. Her actions have costed many lives and brought great suffering. She is a cruel mistress through and through, so I asked myself: Why not make LeBlanc human?

You can misinterpret that question as me wanting LeBlanc to be a saint helping others, but that's not what I want. Like the title said, making LeBlanc human would make her far more inhuman and here is why. To be human is to have empathy. With empathy you care about other's feelings and misery and desire to protect, nourish and soothe them. Empathy allows us to see what others are feeling and strengthens connections of all kinds. Giving LeBlanc that empathy but making her still actively choose to follow her ambition and goals by disregarding that empathy is far more barbaric than a character being unable to feel all that. _What's crueler than someone causing suffering on purpose while knowing how it feels? _ A character causing suffering because they just don't know empathy is less cruel than someone knowing the extent of pain they are doing with their goals and still doing it. Making LeBlanc lack empathy would drastically reduce the brutality of her actions as someone who can't feel empathy are unconsciously seen as someone lost and stray from the path of life.

Make LeBlanc into a rose. A rose is beautiful but do not let that beauty captivate you. It still has its thorns. And yet sometimes you just have to bleed for the beauty.

Either way I will be content with my favorite mistress of subterfuge and phantasmagoria, LeBlanc. No matter what direction. But anyways let me know what you think about this idea of mine.

4 Comments

Pale Mask6/4/2019, 3:30:03 AM5 votes

I'd prefer it if she weren't a psychopath, I think that's more fitting for someone like Vladimir.

I think LeBlanc has empathy, but she's conscious of what she's doing. She's been alive for very long and her intelligence is far ahead of her peers, so sympathising is difficult. Seeing as how she's toying with powers beyond mortal comprehension, she can't think too much about the lives of other people. More importantly, the impact of willful "evil-doing" is bigger than that of someone who never had compassion in the first place.

Consider how pragmatic Swain is, then compare that to a smarter and much more experienced LeBlanc, who's also out on her own since even her closest "allies" are ready to turn on her; in a way, compassion could kill her. This doesn't make her less of a villain, but I think it does give her actions more weight.

ANearMiss6/4/2019, 3:18:41 AM1 votes

The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Love it.

After reading... She's already a psychopath, what's it matter?

FSRER6/6/2019, 4:24:47 PM1 votes

Le blanc chose to not be human. Simplest example. Le'blanc had enough power to kill vladimir (since she had strong enough magic to send mordekaiser back to the realm of the dead) but she chose to feast with him aka use black magic on living creatures to absorb their power.