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wyll in a suit again

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"The Pride of the Gate"

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Everyone talks about what a nice guy Wyll is, but if you dare to play the lyre around him "poorly," he will threaten to stab you

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Never fear!! The Blade of Frontiers, Wyll, is here (sketched)!! ❤️🗡✨️

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I think I disagree with the idea that Wyll’s happiest ending (breaking his pact and rescuing his father) is too “contrived.” I want to push back on this take I've been seeing that it’s “unrealistic” to succeed in rescuing Ulder even if resisting Mizora’s goals in the matter.

if the world were a better place we'd have had an actual quest tied to figuring out Ulder's whereabouts apart from Mizora's tip-off, but since we don't have that, I still want to defend the rescue as entirely plausible even if we're not told immediately where to go. none of this "but the consequence should have been Ulder's death because Mizora tried to kill him/said he would die" - please do remember that Mizora is a devil! devils will do (demonstrably, and consistently), whatever they can in order to make their deals either seem like the "only way out" of some kind of existing crisis, and/or have the fulfillment of those deals be so entirely empty (or horrific) upon deliverance that you were likely better off never taking them at all.

I think the point that Mizora is manipulative and vague and scheming and as a devil will always try to twist things up to position “her way” as the “only way” is a big deal in Wyll’s arc. Wyll repeatedly cautions you against devil deals throughout the entire game because he is intimately familiar with the ways that Mizora sets things up to her advantage and manipulates her outcomes. so to be there for him in that moment with Mizora, proving to Wyll that he does not have to face everything alone, that he can choose his freedom and still pursue hope for rescuing his father, is extremely important.

Mizora has historically isolated Wyll and preyed on his deeply self-sacrificial nature time and time again, so this is the moment! this is the moment the player can be a champion for Wyll when he has never had someone to step up and do that for him before. and it would suck, it would be awful, if the only option to be a champion for Wyll meant giving in to Mizora's manipulations in one way or another. Wyll has only ever believed he could choose between "either they get hurt, or I get hurt," and he has always chosen the latter. this is the moment someone can finally stand at Wyll's side and say "no, you do not have to choose one pain over the other. you deserve your freedom and we will save your father."

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If you listen to Gale say, "I laid with the Goddess of Magic herself and yet, I wasn't satisfied," and *don't* think, "This sounds like a complex relationship with toxic power imbalances and *also* a dude with an unhealthy relationship with himself and his own ambition," then I really don't know what to tell you.

I have no problem with people seeing BG3 as a story that revolves around themes of domestic abuse. Valid reading.

My problem lies with people insisting that it can only be about domestic abuse. In that lens, there can be no such thing as misunderstandings, systemic factors that lead people to harm, complex power struggles, or even basic man vs society/man vs nature/man vs self English 101 conflicts. Not all conflict is domestic abuse with an individual perpetrator who takes advantage of an individual victim they have intimate access to. Nonetheless, you have people trying to shoehorn everyone's storyline into that framework and calling it critical analysis.

And that's how we got this fanbase saying the personification of magic groomed a wizard.

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People still being willfully obtuse and going "hOW DaRe yOU InsULt mY bAby TiefLIng TAV" when Wyll is upset about having a traumatising body horror experience and now looking like a DEVIL, the beings he hunts and everyone (including the Tieflings) hates, makes me wanna rip out my hair.

I blame Larian to an extent for not at all handling Wyll's transformation with the care it deserved but this is mostly

1. people having piss on the poor reading comprehension and

2. people having a massive bias against Wyll

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Wyll is so mean for not liking his forced body modifications from his abuser!!!

You guys sound stupid. I guess Wyll is the only one not allowed to feel sadness from the loss of his personhood. It's been 200 years and Astarion is still allowed to bitch about his....

Why doesn't he want to party with the refugees from Eltruel - who are fleeing from the descent to Avernus???

Yes, why would Wyll, who is always putting other feelings over his own, not want to make others' uncomfortable during a party? So unlike him.

He is so rude to my tiefling!!!!! Why doesn't he want to look like a tiefling? He is racist!

You guys make a bigger deal about Wyll's supposed racism than the racism going on in the fandom and Larian's writing.

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much love to ‘i love my blorbo but they did all that’ but there should be a new category of ‘i love my blorbo but they were written by someone with transparent but unspoken biases and you gotta understand that context’

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𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧

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"Sharp as ever"

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It's always "why are you wearing wired earphones??" and never "wow your wired earphones are so pretty it's very convenient how you can just plug the same set of earphones in your bluetoothless computer and your piano and your phone and they work with everything and never run out of battery"

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Things That Are Unfairly Attractive to Read About a Man Doing...

›› Speaking in that low, wreck-your-world kind of voice that hits somewhere deep in your chest, like a secret only your bones understand.

›› Leaning against a doorway like he’s daring the entire room to challenge him, and the wall’s just collateral damage.

›› Clenching his jaw when someone else makes you laugh, like he's trying not to admit he wants to be the only reason you ever do.

›› Saying “don’t look at me like that” while he’s looking at you like he's already undressing every layer of your soul.

›› Handing you his hoodie, and it smells like midnight and sin and that cologne that haunts your pillow for days after.

›› Touching you like you’re a story he’s been dying to read with his hands, slow and full of reverence, not rush.

›› Whispering something raw and stupidly honest at Midnight. like the dark won’t remember, but you always will.

›› Calling you out so calmly it slices deeper than yelling ever could, because he knows his silence echoes louder.

›› Snapping, just once, and the instant after, looking at you like he’d cut out his own tongue to take it back.

›› Knowing all your tells without asking, like your whole body speaks a language only he bothered to learn.

›› Letting you go even though it’s killing him, because love isn’t the same thing as holding on.

›› Saying “come here” with a voice that makes your knees forget how to hold you up, not a suggestion, not a plea.

›› Smiling for the first time and only at you, like you’re the sunrise after a century of war.

›› Resting his hand on the back of your neck like it's the most natural thing in the world, like you’re his anchor.

›› Standing behind you in the mirror and not saying a word, just watching like you’re the most dangerous, beautiful thing he’s ever survived.

›› Walking into a room and scanning for you first, every time, even when he swears he’s over it.

›› Laughing in that low, surprised way when you challenge him, like he forgot how much he likes the fight.

›› Saying your name like it’s both a prayer and a dare.

›› Looking wrecked in a way that makes you want to destroy whatever did that to him, or hold him so tight it never happens again.

›› Brushing his thumb over your lip mid-sentence, like he’s thinking about kissing you but hasn’t decided if it would ruin or save him.

›› Waiting until you walk away to fall apart, because he doesn’t want you to see that you’re his breaking point.

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'A Perfect Morning In Waterdeep'