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How do you figure? Some of those entries are from when the war started and Anya is still pretty young in 1960 when we meet her.
I didn't even know she was 37 in 1960, she seemed younger than that to me for whatever reason. It's an interesting perspective of looking at it though. Just like you said, it's your typical, "let's say I know this guy, who did this terrible thing. Is that bad?" sort of approach to the whole thing. I haven't seen the extras yet, I've only just finished the game on Über. In my opinion, if she enjoys killing Nazis that much, she's probably an excellent fit for Blazkowicz.
Anya's very words describe her as 'terrorist' or 'murderer'. She justifies every kill of hers with the word Nazi, including a messy abortion of a 'Nazi' baby (As if a baby can be a Nazi you stupid ***** - aimed at Anya, not you dear reader). Remove the word Nazi and read her journals and its depraved and sick, but somehow it becomes moral because they are 'Nazis' even though it really sounds as if she is targeting random Germans, from traffic cops to burning people alive at an entertainment establishment.
I actually remember that one in particular. Now that I consider what you're saying, I agree, she's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in the head.
EDIT: Despite that though I still think she's a pretty good character in the entirety of the story. Yes, he kills because he has to, but they're still both killers by the base definition of the word which gives them a similarity to go on.
So yeah... I completely hated her character and wish the whole romantic sub plot had been replaced with actual gameplay.
Did she do some horrible things? Yeah. But let's keep it in context. Her old boyfriend was gunned down just because his horse was blocking the road. And aside from the physical brutality of the nazis in the game, their political agenda is clear--to eradicate all other cultural perspectives. Such as when Strasse declares English a dead language or the nazis coerce the British into eating sausage and Sauerkraut instead of bangers and mash. I don't necessarily condone her actions, but I certainly don't hate her for it--particularly after watching her patients being taken for human experiments over the years and then her parents and the remaining patients and staff being slaughtered by thuggish soldiers.
She preyed on some nice guy nazis. In the context of all that occured--boo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hoo?
I think it's obvious that the diary was about Anya and that this was her trying to see if BJ would reject her if he knew what she had done. And I think that is significant as well. If she herself was emotionally ok with everything she had done, I don't see why she would even bring it up to him. My interpretation is that she is worried about his reaction because she is conflicted about her own feelings about what she had done. Which is a realistic portrayal of a person with flaws.
So, one murder means someone is justified in becoming a full-fledged psycho killer? What exactly does her murdering accomplish anyway? If anything it will justify the next Nazi killing someone for blocking the street. With that line of thinking the Nazis were completely justified killing her parents. Maybe the one who blasted her parents lost his friend in the fire.
I can understand that you might not be one of the kind of people with the stomach for human death, though many others might share the perspective that sometimes certain groups of people are just better off dead. I'm not advocating for genocide, because genetic diversity is demanded by our very nature, but people with agendas or ideals that are to the detriment of the greater majority of people tend to be better off gone from this world.
Anya resisted the entirety of the Nazi Regime and the Werhmacht through stealth, intelligence, and infiltration. Sure she used sex as a weapons, and that's very cold and intelligent of a woman who was resisting the German occupation of her home and country.
That said, playing the entire game made me think on how the world would be under Nazi Germany, if they won the war... all the genocide, murder, and subjugation aside, we could have been 100-years more advanced technologically, possibly even further.
I highly doubt that. The Nazis were pretty anti-intellectual. They drove away or imprisoned plenty of good scientists not only due to their heritage, but also due to their unwillingness to share the Nazi ideology. Add the fact that quite a few of their projects were more aimed at being impressive than at feasibility and you get a recipe for disaster.
Besides, even in the game the Nazis didn't advance the sciences, they stole Jewish technology.
She did a variety of things, including stealing grenades and arson. The overarching theme of the diaries is that she wasn't a soldier. So no, she didn't "fight" in the conventional sense. But I think you're quibbling over the word.
One murder...plus the violent military takeover of the entire world (including ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, etc.). You act like it's just some random isolated incident. And as far as that goes, suppose a military force invades your town and shoots your dad, or your wife, or your child because they got in the way. Are you going to wave your hands and say "oh well, it's just one murder--no need to go all crazy about it."
Whether or not she's justified in what she did is debatable. Whether its productive in any way is also debatable. But personally I think its understandable that some people are going to react the way she did, and while I may not be happy about some of these incidents I certainly don't hate the character for it.
Meanwhile, BJ dispatches scores of similar nazis in every level of gameplay, some of whom have no idea what's going on (like the guys in the elevator in the London Nautica). And there's a reference that Set Roth's plan to undermine the nazi superconcrete with mold has already caused one entire building to collapse in Paris.