Everyone seems to forget that they both manipulating each other from the start, they plann...

Everyone seems to forget that they both manipulating each other from the start, they planned their steps while using and trapping each other and drowning together in their own desires & circumstances. Wilhelm's feelings went well into toxic obsession, while Reinhardt grew into conditioned love due to her guilt, relief and "debt".

She gave Wilhelm a leeway, a lot, when he tricked her time and again, it's obvious to see how she struggles to trust him, up until he gifted her the ex husband's body to chop up. In that point she had no choice but to fall in love with him, but the seeds of doubt still there, there were still moments she felt something is off whenever she's with Wilhelm.

She can take him tricking her, but she cannot take him hurting people she cares about. She's not a good person at the surface, she's ready to hurt people who hurt her, she'll willingly retaliate worst, she is vengeance. But she have a line to never cross, shown in how she felt guilty using people who didn't do her wrong, at least she won't hurt/harm them intentionally. But Wilhelm crossed that line, and that's when she couldn't give him a pardon anymore.

I think this story can only be understood deeply when you think deeper than what's offered on the plate in this story.

Wilhelm's character is also deeply interesting, I can't say he's right or he's wrong. From our POV yes he is wrong. But when you're in his shoes, I think it's safe to say that he's so emotionally underdeveloped that he couldn't understand what and where he's wrong. Is it innate? Is it due to his pitiful past life? I think that even though he was guided and cared for better in his second life, the mold that was his first life will still be there. You can see so much conflicts within him, that he could care for other (visibly Dietrich) but ALSO no, his whole life is about Reinhardt and she's his master, his goddess.

Anyway that's that lol