01-01-2020, 10:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2020, 11:40 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
(01-01-2020, 09:48 AM)irukandji Wrote: I'm not sure what Meisner's task is in all of this. It seems rather a waste of supernatural forces to have a ghost appear to Renard simply to torture him for fun, warn him he's on the wrong side, and then help him by point out his potential killers.
One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
I don't recall there ever being any mention of either Meisner or Sebastien working for Renard strictly for money; certainly Sebastien did not choose his exit because he was being paid for it. Meisner's one moment of motivational exposition was when he was hiding Adalind and Diana in his family cabin and told Adalind that his hope was to pay the royals back for their killing of his girlfriend. He was as much a fanatic as anyone who served the royals or BC, but on the side of "good" (I put it in quotes because it's a relative concept and Meisner was willing to do some pretty nasty things in pursuit of his idea of it).
I think the only potential regret or guilt in Meisner's mind at the time of his death would have been that he was dying while his enemies (the enemy of the moment being BC, but the royals might also be included in that) still lived. So if he was seeking a "redemption" that would allow him to move on to whatever awaited him in the afterlife it would have consisted of (a) deter Renard from seeking to become the next Bonaparte and (b) getting rid of anyone else who would seek to become the next Bonaparte, which he accomplished by convincing Renard to be done with BC and helping him kill Baledin and his sidekick. Had he been unable to change Renard's ambitions, he probably would have manipulated the situation so that Renard and Baledin ended up killing each other.