captain-vulture:

Speaking of characters being the inverses of each other, you know one aspect of Acxa’s character no one discusses bout that’s so clearly an inverse of Keith’s? How Acxa embodies fully the ideology of “the mission over the individual.”

Think bout it. Keith despite some moments, is very much bout the people he cares bout. When Shiro was an evil clone, he followed him to the facility and got his ass handed to him fighting him in an attempt to save him. When Regris, a teammate of his, was lost, Keith went back to save him at the near cost of his life. Kolivan admonishes him for it. Keith fully embodies the idea that one’s morals do not come at the cost of other peoples’ lives.

Acxa is not like that at all. Acxa is all about her morality, and her sense of duty. She focuses solely on the mission, everyone else be damned. Think back to how in s4 with the whole Narti scenario. Even though Acxa shot Lotor in the back for doing that to poor Narti (I’m certain this was unplanned, look at Lotor’s face there he wasn’t expecting to betrayed with a near literal knife in his back.)

she still went on and did what Lotor mandated she did. That is, she went and did the trade with Sam Holt, and kept the whole thing a secret from Ezor and Zethrid. That tells us that while Acxa does have a code of honor, she follows her plans absolutely, even at the cost of her vision. She is the definition of a lawful neutral – Keith would bend the rules to see his vision fit. Acxa lost sight of her way cause she put the mission over the individual(s).

That’s what costed her her friendships with the other generals. Cause she rather focus on what she think is needed to be done, she loses sight of the people who care for her. It’s why even when they were her friends at one point, Acxa still goes on fights them regardless in s7ep3 cause the mission to save the paladins was more important than the individual (herself and her feelings regarding the subject. We know she was hurt at Ezor’s jabs, look at her face when Zethrid had the “aww it’s true” love thing. It looks hurt).

Heck one could argue that’s why she shows up at the grave scene in s7ep13. She doesn’t consider how this is an important private moment for Keith and Krolia. She has to give her support to the Coalition and rebuilding Earth even if it means intruding in on people’s private lives.

So yeah, while Acxa learned bout the whole thing with Lotor and how he was a bad person, I still think that her major vice, her narrow-minded focus on her duties at the cost of herself and her relationships to others, she hasn’t learn from it. Or at least, it’s something that she’s definitely still working at. Maybe s8 addresses it if she becomes a Blade and in particular Krolia’s apprentice. I bet it’ll bother Krolia a heck ton that Acxa solely focuses on the Blade missions at the cost of herself and their allies perhaps.

anyways tl;dr: Acxa’s not evil, she’s just a bit of selfish narrow-minded bitch.