Teres

So their solution to killing so many children due to their own stupidity is to...breed more cannon fodder to potentially kill. Brilliant. I'm never going to get over how absolutely braindead these guys have to be to think continuing to do this is a good idea. They're committing self-inflicted genocide.

Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous and horrible.

Every time Axis shows a basic positive human emotion, we're either supposed to be stunned, or fawn over him for being so kind and noble. Douglass, are you...are you a robot? Maybe an alien? You're clearly some kind of creature that thinks they understand human emotions, but in reality, they have absolutely no clue what they're talking about.

It's something she shares with Paolini. Every time a Paolini protagonist does something genuinely brave or heroic, it's not enough that they go and do the brave or heroic thing. No, every single time they have to stop and give a speech first about how they're going to do the thing and it's so selfless blah blah blah. Like it's somehow so unusual to do the right thing that we have to have it pointed out to us in great detail.

Stomach wounds are horribly painful, and usually slow to kill.

Which Douglass doesn't seem to have known because he died instantly instead.

Yeah, it feels like Douglass took the whole "nobody had a bad word to say about him" thing and cranked it up to a hundred, and now expects us to take it seriously.

This isn't the last time she treats her human NPCs like a hivemind, either. The Icarii have voices of dissent, but not the humans. They all just blindly go along with what Axis wants, or are eeeevil and get killed.