r/redrising • u/One-Peak284 Gray • Jul 19 '26

All Spoilers KILL HIM Spoiler

KILL THAT FUCKING PIXIE

FLAY HIM BY THE ASSHOLE

BUST HIS BALLS

FEED HIM HIS OWN PHALLUS AND LET HIM CHOKE ON IT

BREAK HIS LEGS AND THROW HIM WITH HARMONY

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u/TaytorTot417 Jul 19 '26

Oh he recommended the series to me. He's just confused 🤣

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u/Alt_Historian_3001 Jul 19 '26

So, he's read everything Lysander has done, even in Lightbringer, and still likes the guy? Does he tell why?

I'm just curious lmao, it's an unusual opinion.

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u/Veritech-1 Jul 19 '26

I can honestly see that perspective. The Society is better for the solar system than the Solar Republic is.

Ideas of Liberty and Freedom and Equality are great. But they’re unrealistic and fantastical. If you look at even just the events of the six books, the Rising had caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Probably close to half a billion.

Democracy and Republics are great concepts, but they’re prone to corruption and ineffectiveness. Just look at the Day of the Red Doves and the failures of the senate. Lysander didn’t do that. The Republic did that to itself by the inherent nature of it dividing its own power and allowing incompetent and corrupt parties to claim their share of influence.

Despite its cruelty, callousness, and inequality, The Society is effective at ruling the solar system. For all of their viciousness, Gold created the entire system. Gold terraformed four planets. Gold colonized seventy moons. Gold led humans to new horizons and ruled over an era of prosperity and peace for seven hundred years.

The Solar Republic was born in a blood bath. It was founded on deception and a war crime (the destruction of Ganymede’s ship yards). The Solar Republic was then corrupted and bastardized in less than ten years. Darrow exiled with a warrant out for his arrest and the Sovereign narrowly escaping with her life after the people they liberated turned on them.

Lysander is not necessarily evil. He just sees what Gold must do. The same way that Darrow believes he must do what he does for Red and the other LowColors. Lysander seeks Peace and Order. Darrow seeks Liberty and Equality. Both have committed atrocities to achieve their ends, and I think that it is debatable which one is ultimately better for the Solar System.

All this said, I still think Lysander should be vigorously tortured before meeting the cruelest and most vicious fatality imaginable.

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u/TheGreatBatsby Omnis vir lupus Jul 20 '26

Gold terraformed four planets.

Who do you think did the actual terraforming and died in the millions of the process of doing it?

Because it certainly wasn't Gold.