by vdrake » Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:15 pm
Nobody is denying that she's screwed up. But if you're taught that wrong is right, then you're going to be screwed up. Convincing her that she's EVIL isn't going to do any good. You have to show her that what she's been TAUGHT is evil.
As for making her apologize, that's not going to do ANY good. Forcing someone to apologize is forcing them to lie.
We want Butch to better herself. Nobody's denying that she did / attempted an evil thing. But if you want her get fixed, making her a pariah doesn't seem like the way to go. Butch isn't evil. She's just spectacularly screwed up. She may have been on the road to being evil, but Gus set her on that path and didn't give her many options to get off. Or more accurately, he scared her so badly she was afraid to veer from that path. He's raised her to respect strength and aggression while making her certain she's so much weaker than him.
You want them to treat Rebecca like she's a monster just like her father? Why would she choose to better herself if that's what people think of her anyways? It's not like Gus is in any serious way inconvenienced by the suspicions of the pack. But if you treat her like a PERSON, she's not so far gone that she can't be redeemed.
It's like a chronically beaten dog. It's afraid of everyone and dangerous. Do you smack it for snapping at you and treat it with fear, or do you try to lure it into trusting you slowly?