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Thursday, 29 August 2024 13:06 (UTC)I'm currently attempting to spork The Fourth Wing and this problem has if anything only gotten worse. :(
When we actually meet him later we will indeed learn that he's a brainless idiot who cannot think for himself. Axis is a stupid immature brat, but Gorgonzola (I love that nickname! But then I also love cheese and everything to do with it. Oooh, says here gorgonzola was named after a town in Italy in 879AD! That is some REALLY old cheese) has the mental capacity of a five year old child. Which just makes his eventual defeat at Axis' hands even more embarrassingly pathetic.
Seriously, fuck the Sentinels. They're a bunch of manipulative creeps who suck at their jobs and whose only real purpose when all is said and done is to provide Axis with the weapon he needs to kill Gorgonzola for some very poorly explained reason.
Oh, and to provide comic relief which isn't funny. Ogden and Veremund in particular wind up becoming obnoxious comic relief characters who are actually just insanely annoying.
Ah, another fantasy novel in which the heroes have access to the Pause Button.
It doesn't help that Axis has never been shown having any camaraderie with his troops at all. What, does he regularly hold concerts to entertain them all with his amazing singing and harping? And this never changes, by the way. The Axe Wielders are never anything other than a bunch of ass-kissing nonentities who would follow Axis to Hell and back because he's just such an amazing commander who "grieves for every man he loses" in the field. Which is a lie; after the climatic battle in book two he just fucking GOES TO SLEEP while Belial is left to stay up all night burying the corpses.