Kayle Rework, yet another "Light is actually totalitarian and evil" angle.

Mira Arya Enthe·2/20/2019, 2:42:23 AM·9 votes·2,176 views

Don't we have enough of these in LoL? She isn't even "ambiguous", she is pretty much just a villain now.

Yawn we get it the light is actually evil, the dark is just misunderstood. You've done this like, 20 times now.

Oh, excuse me, you were Fedora tipping about 'perspective'?

6 Comments

Gold Light2/20/2019, 2:59:34 AM5 votes

http://ask-riven.tumblr.com/post/182924139078/angels-kayle-and-morgana

I sincerely advise you read over this.

iiGazeii2/20/2019, 3:05:29 AM5 votes

It's really not one way or the other. That's the point.

We have light champions that are "evil" and light champions that are "good". Same with dark. It's not exclusive to either side. A resounding theme in League's overall lore is that there's always a gray area - nobody is ever truly, 100% right or wrong, and the only thing that decides if you are "evil" or "good" is your choices. Faction, country, race, affinity for light or darkness, none of that makes you any more likely to be right.

Ebonmaw Dragon2/20/2019, 3:00:56 AM4 votes

Kayle was supposed to be a tyrant since her original lore, that is not new.

Poop Johnson2/20/2019, 3:02:04 AM3 votes

I'm lazy and i'm just gonna copy something I've already said before because more people need to see it.

Okay, first off; Kayle hasn't ever been just "Good angel that does justice because justice is good" She has had 3 majorish rewrites and in none of them is she just "good".

In her first lore she is apart of a regime that demands full obedience where asking "why" is a death sentence. Slowly she becomes tired of doing mission apon mission on just faith she asks "Why not strike them harder and end this war now and forever" and gets sent to Valoran. Nothing to do with justice at all or being good either, it's completely different then any other lore.
This is the one (technically 2) telling that give us what people think of Kayle. She's basically an alien from another world where a long fought war is taking place. She is said to be extremely powerful and extremely beautiful but she doesn't show her face because the war has destroyed her mentally and she also tries to reform those who do evil but most of the time has to strike them down because she sees them as beyong redemption. The next part was added in later where Morgana with the help of summoners and the League go to destroy her but Kayle then joins the League as well to stall them. Sounds good right? That's without Morgana's angle where it's explained that angels (Kayle's side) are tyrants who can't see the bigger picture (sound familiar?) and while Morgana isn't exactly pure, she isn't exactly evil as Kayle is the one who started the conflict.
Same thing as above but without the whole league bit

TL:DR for above: Kayle has always been arguably not good because she sees herself as judge, jury, and executioner for any of those she sees beyond saving and she's supposed to mirror justice which isn't inherently good (if you steal food for your starving family are you evil?)

Second: We already have purely evil characters, they're from the Void and The Shadow Isles and we already have purely good characters because I doubt anyone is gonna say Nunu, Lux, Neeko, and Lulu.

BoringLittleF2/20/2019, 4:00:13 PM1 votes

Kayle has never been a good or merciful character. Her Aether Wing skin is basically "What if" scenario in which Kayle loses her wings, but gets new ones and reimagines the entire way of her race.

"Ugh, dust in the clockwork." "Let my blade speak the law!" "Transcend imperfection." "To rebuild we must first destroy." "There will be no compromise." "This is for the greater good." "Order, through time and space." "A future forged in light and steel."

Meanwhile, Morgana didn't consider herself evil: she was angry because the history is written by the winners and now Kayle is hailed as a paragon, while she is the enemy who must be judged. Yet nobody knew the truth.