Talk:Chief God/@comment-25311645-20141229003653/@comment-12776-20141230085138

They're quite similar, both hold on code of hero, believe that it's right, and use it as compass for a while.

The different is that, Luka want to be hero because of his promise to Lucifina. As story progress, he kind of develope his own compass of virtue (it's help that his companion is Alice, who is willing to assure him when he did a right thing). The climax of this developement, IMO, is his conversation with King of San Ilia, that he still believe how some of Ilias' teaching still hold its value, even if Ilias herself abandon it. I think he become his own judge when it comes to keeping to the righteous path, although he still aware that he doesn't alway know the right path (the post-final battle conversation in Witch Village show that much), he know his goal and at least has idea what the right path should look like.

Wilmarina, on other hand, use the heroic act to atone for all suffering she and her family cause to "your family". Her Fallen Maidens profile reason that by become hero and protect "everyone", surely she will also protect "you". Her Fallen Brides story put more emphasis on how she found her father and teacher, two persons who should be rolemodel of morality, are A-grade assholes and full of hypocrite. And so only by become what she believe to be ultimate living example of virtue, the hero, that she will ever be able to make up for all suffering Elt suffer. Yet when they actually meet again, the role as hero actually become barrier that put him at distance, away from her, without a chance to be together. So ultimately, it did her no good, as Deruella put it in Fallen Brides, she become hero for him, yet all hero role did was hurting both him and herself. It's no surprise that she see no value in it afterward.