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sunlight-shunlight · 8 days ago

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it does still make me wonder how the bioware writers managed to throw in "anders was in solitary confinement for a year" as like an offhand line, rather than something that should shape his entire character and that other people would react to. and then frame solas being put in a similar state at the end of vg as... uhhh... optimistic and plausibly sustainable...

like the ENTIRE veil hinges on this one guy not getting depression too badly after [indefinite number of years] in forced isolation? and no one thinks this is both really precarious on an objective level, and a morally fucked up thing to do to begin with?

weird ass game. unsettling implications. i don't usually like to assume anyone's political views from their work in that way, but do the writers think people in solitary confinement are just chilling? especially in the sort of medieval dungeon type of thing anders would've been in/whatever torment nexus solas is supposed to be in?

#veilguard critical #solas #anders #txt #i thought it was like common knowledge that such things are a form of torture and can lead to death #so it was weighing on me that they keep getting reviews like ''uwu what an optimistic game for this harsh era!'' and like #this is the only time i have seen an omelas adaptation that is Pro Eternal Torment Prison as a concept 😭#this is NOT optimistic. it is very bleak.#are people just pissing on the poor or do they straight up not know this is a real issue that exists #and also that bit with cole where he got thrown in a cell and basically forgotten about for weeks until he starved #and then the mind read on the templar is ''uwu he was being peer pressured by his colleagues to do that :( he feels bad :(''#i could not... care less about his feelings... fhdfhdgfjd #wild that you don't even have an option to kill that guy. if cole won't do it my inquisitor will #i thought maybe that was just an oversight/some message about Compassionately Not Stooping To His Level™ but #three times in a row they seem to think it's nbd! an oddly specific writing trait 😭

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