NAIDA AND RUBINA: WHAT'S BEHIND THE MASK - 30
By Gerdha & Joe7
(first article: here; previous article: here)

ANALYSIS ABOUT RUBINA

RUBINA: KING VEGA'S DAUGHTER

According to Dialogue 1, King Vega was sure that his daughter would follow his own overall political approach. Let's read:

Zuril: An insurrection has broken out on Planet Rubi!
King Vega: What, an insurrection? My daughter Rubina is on planet Rubi. She would certainly repress it. There's nothing to be worried about.

Basically, according to King Vega (and also according to Zuril, who does not contradict him) Rubina would have no problems in suppressing revolts, just like her father would do. After all, Rubina was on Rubi Planet officially on behalf of her father: we have no reason to believe otherwise.

Usually I read on the web that the "sweet princess Rubina" wanted only peace, disagreeing with her father and even having a "strong sense of justice". Where are the evidences which demonstrate that Rubina owned these characteristics? From dialogues? From these VO (Original Version Japanese) dialogues you can clearly see that King Vega trusts Rubina and knows about her adherence to his ruthless politics.
Moreover, Rubina leaves Rubi Planet not because she loves peace, or because she is contrary to her father's political action: in VO there are no traces of this. Rather, she leaves Rubi only because she knows that Duke Fleed is alive.

Perhaps Rubina hid peace thoughts? Well, in VO this does not appear. Rubina says only that she wants the end of the war, so avoiding other revolts and finding a new planet for the Veghians. Let's read the dialogue between Rubina and her father:

Rubina: All the people on Planet Rubi desire peace. If we allow them the independence, they would not dare to attack us.

Rubina's observation shows a pragmatic and realistic attitude, but it does not show a desire for peace: there is no concept of peace as a principle. Not to mention - I repeat - that her father expected that Rubina acted by crushing the revolt, a thing that evidently she had already done in the past. Otherwise, it would not explain the father's trust on Rubina (unless King Vega was a stupid character, but he never appears at all in this way).

(to be continued here)

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Edited by joe 7 - 28/4/2020, 14:29