Humani. The word never meant that much to me before. It was an ancient name for us, humans that's all--or so I thought. But for the Dark Elders and the likes of John Dee, they used the word as a form of insult for the short-lived, powerless, and simple-minded humans like us.
John Dee was known as the royal advisor for the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I and gained popularity when together, they defeated the Spanish Armada. That was the first ever role that made this man experience that he is above any ordinary man, that he can do extraordinary things. Throughout the series, Dee served his unknown masters on the surface and ruthlessly destroyed places and killed humans, but despite that outward appearance we can always get a glimpse of small emotions, admiration (especially towards Josh) and a little bit of his previous memories that made me decide that John Dee is not that bad at all. (He did a lot of unforgivable things though.)
Towards the end of the series though, when Dee's masters did the unthinkable--and removed the immortality of the man and made him an ancient helpless poor soul and left him to die, Josh, as always the kind-hearted one left his coat to keep the old man from the cold and Dee left him his dying advice--to follow his heart. That statement led Josh to the right decision in the end. One good point of kindness for our old man!
The second good point is his effort to catch up to the quite emotional Miss Dare who is busy using their arguments as an act to catch the attention of the people. Dee tried to understand Virginia for the last time, realizing that after so many years of being together, he knew nothing about the woman at all. The ice cream conversation was cute, by the way.
Third point is his effort to use the word
Humans instead of
Humani. It showed that the ruthless and immortal Dee was gone and he again, a human tried to repent for what he did and did his best to be useful just for the last time.
Fourth. The smarty pants. He went back to his role of being an advisor to the queen (saying that Virginia would be considered as a queen by those people). He laid out an elaborate plan to Virginia that saved thousands of humans and helped saved the sun god, Aten.
Fifth and the most important good point. He gave up his life to save the humans! All hail John Dee! Together with Virginia Dare (whose role is to be the leader and figure of the humans) they built a shield to protect the humans from the arrows by using the wind (Miss Dare is the mistress of air, after all) to stop the arrows from hitting the people and by turning it on the opposite direction and killed the army. Knowing that this would be the cause of his death, he willingly gave up his aura up to the last drop leaving just a tiny bit to say his farewell to Virginia and Scathach.
It is the greediness that accompanied every immortal that made Dee a ruthless killer and destroyer. He was blinded by his desire to rule over everything. He was fascinated by what his powers can do. (every immortal from the series are like that, in one way or another) But without his immortality, Dee went back to being a human, and along with it, showed us a better part of him.
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