Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34160983-20180102023156

The order of Witches were not fools. In their time, they readily accepted Satella amongst them, and likely fully intended for Satella to be a Witch among them, but they, especially Echidna, would have recognized that Satella has no affinity for Envy. What she does have affinity for, is Tristitia (despair, melencholy, acidia? Your translation may vary). When she is at the last Witch’s Tea Party, even without it being stated, there is this somber, sad feeling. She has a familiarity with despair “Because in the night I was trembling in lonliness”. And her last words to Subaru were to beg for death. As a Witch, she was meant to be the emotional equivalent to Minerva, healing mental injury as Minerva healed physical ones. To Subaru, “Please don’t cry, please don’t get hurt, please don’t be bitter, please don’t have a sad face.” Satella abhors suffering as Minerva abhors injury. It is almost definitely Pandora who ruined this intention, changing Tristitia to Envy, and providing the stolen Tristitia to Hector. And Satella was left with something she didn’t understand and wasn’t ready to deal with. 