Talk:Urza Pranaice/@comment-30086411-20170112015658/@comment-27031093-20170112023322

I 100% agree that "soulmate" beats "fated girl" into the ground, for the exact reasons you said.

Rance is always hard to read, imo, but to me, while it seemed like he always cared about Urza to a degree, he never cared about Ice Flame's mission or the state of Zeth. He destroys both for his own completely selfish reasons. When Urza calls him out on it, he (correctly) justifies himself by saying that he never at any point claimed to be working towards Zeth's best interests and that it was her own fault for passively agreeing with every decision he made.

He makes attempts at encouraging Urza to be more assertive while he's the secret leader (he tries to get her to start walking again, and such), so I think that, were Urza to have regained her confidence earlier, she would have been able to make him stop making such horrible decisions. But since she didn't, Rance saw it as perfectly fine to do whatever he wanted. Rance always cared about Urza, but he never cared about Ice Flame or Zeth, so when she failed to work up the passion to defend either, he had no problem running both into the ground.