Talk:Jyu Viole Grace/@comment-4850710-20120217081123/@comment-74.76.128.138-20120218165953

As far as Baam not making a realistic transition goes... it's been five years. People can change a lot over that amount of time, especially as he's gone from being more a kid/teenager to a young adult.

Baam has been kind and helpful because that's all he knows. That's his relationship with Rachel, the only person he's ever cared about. He treats others in a similar manner because that same treatment made him happy.

To the attentive reader, though, there have been strong hints that Baam hasn't ever been entirely stable. Innocent does not preclude crazy. He was locked underground all by himself for any number of years as a child. When he briefly confronts the master of tests of the second floor, Yu Han Sung, he virtually threatens him, demanding that there better be a good reward at the top of the tower for all the crap he and Rachel are going through. Finally, he is, for better or worse, obsessed with Rachel. It's the only reason he's there, the only reason he's doing anything. Not only was that taken away from him, but the subject of his obsession wordlessly betrayed him without, from his point of view, even a hint of explaination. That's not just a betrayal of their relationship, but a betrayal of everything important he ever learned from her. It undermines his entire worldview.

And you're saying he's a bit too ruthless now? Other people would have just gone insane.