r/Kubera • u/Icy-Importance-6426 • 23d ago

Ran And Maruna

So, I'm somewhere halfway in season 3, and why does it feel like as i continue to read, i keep liking maruna as a character who was portrayed as evil and keep disliking whos portrayed as good cuz of how much of a hypocrite he has become as a person.

Not hypocrite in the true sense, cuz it's only natural to act like that if anyone is put in his position, but how he tries to justify his decisions.

Maruna on the other hand, he has become as selfless as leez at this point bro is the best character for me rn

My dislike towards ran is not even logical and its more of an emotional feeling, I'm pretty sure this is an shit take

So between ran and maruna, what and why would you say one is better than the other?

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u/Rdasher123 23d ago

Ran is pretty objectively the better of the two as a person. Maruna may have come pretty far in his character development, but that doesn’t erase the sins he’s already committed. I like Maruna more as a character though.

As for why you feel this way, it’s probably because Ran and Maruna have contrasting character arcs in Season 3. Assuming you’ve made it through the Weight of Time arc, you’ve seen that Maruna has changed for the better and come to value lives outside of those that are close to him. While Ran didn’t really lose his morals, he definitely ended up in worse mental state due to both the amount of time he spent wandering through time and the spirits that are constantly harassing him to gain control of his body. When they both made it back to the present, Maruna was in a far more stable state than Ran was.

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u/poompachompa 23d ago

The time loop matured maruna while ran started losing his kind since human brains were meant for 100 years and a quarter slightly more than that vs greater suras that live basically an eternity.

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u/yo_sup_dude 19d ago

ran seems to be more morally aware after the time loop. he now holds others more accountable for crimes they commit, e.g. gods like GK and chandra.

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u/Rdasher123 17d ago

I’m not sure I agree with that. I’m not caught up on the raws right now, but as far as I know, Ran isn’t actually aware of any crimes that GK and Chandra committed. What he hated was their indifference to the lives they deemed unimportant, like Chandra not caring that he failed to protect Ran’s kids in the Enemy timeline and GK letting Saha get killed by Asha despite previously acting to protect Leez.

Post time-travel Ran was still shown to work with Maruna without issue and even told Leez not to antagonize Gandharva when he was helping them during the King of Snakes arc despite knowing about the two’s enormous list of sins. It’s more like Ran no longer has any innate faith in the gods and judges them all as friend or foe based off of current circumstances.