#myanalysis

[amysgiantbees]

The Christmas animation was so disrespectful to Wyll.

I want you to imagine how funny this would be if it was Astarion blushing at his abuser instead.

Like it's frustrating enough that Wyll had to go through rewrites and so seems to have the least amount of content as well as the most inconstant writing. However, unless this special was made over a year ago, which I doubt, there's no excuse for Wyll to still be characterized like this and for his creators to be doing him dirty while putting so much attention into everyone else. It's also so weird that it's Karlach who's egging him on. She's Mizora's No. 2 hater.

[amysgiantbees]

Okay so I don't know if this is my place to say this as a white person but I like how they handled Edwin being from Victorian England and all the baggage that has.

Like how he asks Crystal to ask about Niko's hysteria. And how he insults Crystal and Charles is like "well your dad would of called me an un-licked cub, or worse". Like they clearly acknowledge that Edwin did not come from a great period of history and comes with some baggage and biases. But from Edwin stopping himself from saying hysteria in a later episode (presumably because Crystal had a conversation with him) I think it shows that yes he comes from a deeply problematic time but he's very quick to be better. He also seems like an inherently kind enough person to not have just uncritically internalized the worst of what would have been the norm at the time. And is clearly happy to correct himself when he fucks up. They're not ignoring it but they're also thank god not having him do problematic shit repeatedly as a joke or anything like that because he's perfectly capable of change as a good friend would.

[ohgaylor]

y’all best believe I am working on my beloved analysis a lot lately and making progress! ✍️😏

[amysgiantbees]

Also I'm pretty sure we see more gay kisses than hetero.

Crystal and Charles make out once. 🏳️

Cat King kisses Monty 🏳️‍🌈

Monty kisses Edwin. 🏳️‍🌈

Maxine and Jenny kiss. 🏳️‍🌈

jesus can we settle the queerbaiting allegations once and for all? on-screen demonstrated attractions of all named dead boy detectives characters that show up in more than one episode:

edwin- primarily attracted to/romantically interested in men 🏳️‍🌈

charles- primarily attracted to/romantically interested in women 🏳️

crystal- primarily(?) men 🏳️

jenny- primarily women 🏳️‍🌈

david the demon- women 🏳️

the cat king- men 🏳️‍🌈

monty- men 🏳️‍🌈

esther- men 🏳️

maxine- women 🏳️‍🌈

simon- primarily men 🏳️‍🌈

minimal or zero evidence- niko (maybe men, based on her taste in manga/anime), mick, the night nurse, lilith, uhhh the ghost mailman

does this 🏳️‍🌈 ratio look baity to you?? godddd

[transphilza]

all he wanted was to build a place where he and his family could be safe and free he wanted to run around with his little brother and cause trouble he wanted to sing songs to his son and take him fishing but he was scared he was so so scared and he was in over his head and he was prideful and he was reckless and he lost everything and he watched his son tear down the walls they’d built together and he watched his friends be threatened and exiled and executed and he was so scared he was so AFRAID and he didn’t know what else to do all he knew was he needed some way to feel safe again and he hid away in a hole in the ground and decided it wasn’t worth it and hoped and hoped that if he was bad enough that it wouldn’t hurt his family when he was gone but he was never bad he was never bad and they just wanted him around but he could never believe that and he ran and he hid and he lashed out and cried all on his own and then he built himself a room to die in and he died in it. Im gonna be sick.

[fabiolajyx]

This dance is GOLD

I have watched this dance more than I can count and I feel like I know every details. We all know that Sidney and Charlotte didn’t do the dance like the other couples and I wanted to share with all of you everything that I've noticed with GIFs. I don't know if someone have already done it but here's my little analysis. 

Here, is the moment right after they do the thing where they bring their palms together. If you look at the couple in the back we can see the lady’s arm going down and as the camera turns we can see all the men’s arms behind their back. While Charlotte and Sidney take each other's hand.

Their hands. I swear this dance is all about their hands, you’ll see. So I have two or three other GIFs about their hands but this one is the most important. I think we all know that they are not supposed to be hand in hand and that’s why we have this shot. If you look at every other couples during the dance we can see that the men support the ladies right hand. So Sidney was supposed to give the back of his hand to Charlotte and not an opened hand. It shows how much Sidney wants to be intimate with Charlotte and open with her. I think it can be a metaphor of Sidney ready to open his heart to her.

I love this shot. Here we can see the intimacy of every couple by the space between their bodies. Let’s take a look to the couple in the back on the right with the lady wearing the red dress (kinda orange on my gif). There’s a lot of space between them which makes me think that they don’t know each other. So the personal space is not crossed. Now, let’s take a look to the couple right in the middle in the back with the lady wearing the white dress. I would say that they know each other but not in an intimate way. There’s space between them but not as big as the previous couple. We can say these two things for pretty much every couples except for one. Sidney and Charlotte. Where is their personal space? It looks like Sidney grabbed her and glued her to him. Also, their hands!

Sidney, stop! Okay, so I love this moment! We’re gonna take a look to the same couples as the previous GIF. Right on the left we have the couple who I presume don’t know each other. Do you see how the man holds the lady’s hands? He holds them very heigh and very close to her with outstretched arms. Again, personal space. And he puts his left arm behind his back. The other couple in the middle, the man holds the woman’s hands lower than the previous man and more close to him and puts his left arm behind his back. Now, Sidney and Charlotte. Sidney holds Charlotte’s hands to his stomach (so she can feels the butterflies in his stomach. Just kidding...?) So he holds her hands to his stomach and keeps them in his hands longer than the other men. Longer than he doesn’t have the time to put his left arm behind his back. Then when they take each other’s hands, Sidney makes a few steps towards Charlotte, while the other men stay put. Another proof of Sidney’s feelings for Charlotte. He is so ready to love her and to be loved by her during this dance.

Here’s two GIFs about their hands. Like I said, they are not supposed to take each other’s hands like that. If we look at the couples in the back, we see that the ladies hands are simply ON the men’s hands.

Okay, so you are going to hate me for this one. I hate myself for this one. So first, I love how they take each other’s hands here. See, their hands. Again. And now, for the part where you are going to hate me. Take a look right on the left in the corner... Yep. We see Eliza’s arrival... (we see her in the previous GIF too). Alright, let’s forget about that. To the next one!

Another ‘hands GIF’. We can perfectly see the other couple’s hands behind them and how the lady’s hand is. If you look closer, you can see Sidney and Charlotte bumping each other’s thumb while taking each other’s hands. I noticed it while making the GIF and thought it was cute. I also spotted Lord Babington on the right. It’s very quick.

Of course, I have to mention the famous “I'm-to-busy-staring-at-my-future-wife-to-distant-her-from-me-and-lead-her-into-the-last-spin-of-this-dance-so-I'll-put-her-hand-on-my-heart-instead-PS-leave-us-alone!” moment. This moment is so precious. And the way how the other couples moves before the spin it looks like Sidney and Charlotte have had stopped to ‘dance’ for awhile now.

The dance is over and Sidney is not ready to let go of Charlotte’s hands. Look how he looks at his empty hands. He looks so sad about it. Plus, look how he clenches his jaw! I don’t know if it’s a Theo thing or a Sidney thing but he did it a few times through the season and I’ve always had a thing for actors doing it but that’s another story.

And to finish, let’s talk about that moment. It’s right after Sidney notices Eliza. Do you see what he is doing with his hands? There's the obvious reason, he does it to simply thanks Charlotte for the dance. But we can see it in a different way. Sidney touched and hold Charlotte’s hands for the first time. For three or four minutes he was in his bubble with her. He couldn’t take his eyes and hands off her. For a few minutes it was just them with no one around. But now he is back to the reality with his ex in front of him. So to me, the way he holds his own hand, it is to hang on to what he just lived and felt. He wants to remember Charlotte’s touch in his hands forever because he’s afraid of what will come next with the return of his ex. Also, we can see it as the metaphor that we had earlier at the beginning of the dance when he takes Charlotte’s hand. Now it can be a metaphor of Sidney closing his heart because he is lost, confused and doesn’t want to be hurt again. Besides, we can see Charlotte doing pretty much the same thing. She touches her left fingers with her right hand. It is very similar to what Sidney is doing but yet so much different. While Sidney closes his entire hands, Charlotte touches only her fingers with her hands wide open. So I think for her, it’s a “pinch-me” kinda thing to remember Sidney’s touch on her hands. To remember what she felt while dancing with the man that she had just realized she was in love with.

Okay, so I’m done now. I’m sorry it was this long. I hope some of you were interested by all of this and by how I see this scene. Maybe I overthink too much but I love this show and Sidney and Charlotte so much! 

PS: Hands.

[toothlesslove]

Random HTTYD3 Thoughts

Hiccup’s pure selflessness. Not a selfish bone in that skinny boy’s body. Yeah he’s creating a dragon utopia FOR dragons, and then he gives that up and let’s his best friend go so THEY can live free and safe forever in the hidden world.

(I’m in love with that boy)

Friendship vs. romantic love. Yeah, big controversy here. I value friendship so much and am suspicious of romantic love, especially when friendship is downplayed in its favor. Did HTTYD do that here? On some days, I think so, and sometimes I see through that and find the power of the story. There was a lot of romance in HTTYD3, but the friendship between Hiccup and Toothless was always displayed so strongly. The first day after HTTYD3 (back in Feb 2, early showing), I was so upset that Toothless left Hiccup for a love interest. I’m still wondering about that. But there’s no doubt in my mind that Hiccup and Toothless love each other deeply. They are the deepest friends I have ever imagined or seen in this world. And I won’t give that up lightly. Furthermore, we gained something very special in THW: We heard them say “I love you” to one another for the very first time. It’s official. They love each other. And that’s the kind of love that I believe in.

Hiccstrid wedding, Hiccstrid children, Night Fury/Light Fury babies. Everything we’ve headcanoned for years is true.

Hiccup still a beat-up dweeb as chief. HTTYD2 Hiccup had it easy. HTTYD3 Hiccup, now that he’s technically the number one boss, has everyone putting him down as if to remind him that he’s not a natural at this. Imagine yourself as a villager -- all your life the chief’s son was a laughing stock, you had a few years seeing him in a whole new light and actually admiring him and being grateful for the dragons he brought into your life -- and now he’s chief. He’s still as twingly as Hiccup always is. I think it must have been weird for the people of Berk and especially the kids to answer to Hiccup as their chief. That’s why all the butt-slapping, and beard-thrusting, and tossing-chief-Hiccup-into-the-air. It’s the way everyone’s coping with having the runt of the litter be your new Commander-in-Chief.

(Hiccup being thrown in the air by his people and feeling sick is one of my favorite scenes! Throw chief Hiccup!)

Badass raid to start the day, the most badass Night Fury with glowing dorsal spines, the most badass peacemaking demon with the hottest face EVER

Hiccup has grown incredibly handsome. yep. There’s one piece of hair I really like that sticks out of his head, and then he has those bright, explorative, and gentle eyes that makes his whole face beautiful. I like his face and his skinny waist. He feels so small to himself, but he’s such a badass to us. 

I got mad and sad and upliftingly overwhelmed with peace and turmoil with the separation scene. I saw this back in Feb 2, I felt like my world was ending the next day and that Toothless didn’t miss Hiccup enough and that they wouldn’t ever be together again. I felt that their separation was done wrong with the Light Fury love interest. I still have mixed feelings about it, but there’s no denying how this is incredibly strong storytelling to have them choose to separate and grow because of it. It’s an amazing storytelling choice all the way from Cressida in the books, and I’ve sort of anticipated it since then, though I didn’t know how serious it would be. How they say goodbye to each other is one of the most movingly emotional scenes, ever. Hiccup and Toothless said goodbye. Hiccup touched Toothless on the nose, that special touch, one last time. I really can’t believe it.

The wildness of Toothless and the maturity of Hiccup in the final reunion. Hiccup actually isn’t too much older in the last scene, since if you shave off his beard he still looks like our Hiccup. But he isn’t flying dragons. He’s taking the slow path ... sailing on a ship, which takes days instead of hours to travel to other lands. How slow ships must feel for Hiccup. But I think he got used to them. Astrid looks incredibly beautiful, with her curls -- and then the children! JUST then they sight Furies on an ice flow -- wow, it felt incredibly real to me, in that mist, like scenes from a nature show when we’re just squinting to see undisturbed nature living its beautiful life. The Night Fury notices the ship, the people -- he does more than notice, his ears perk up. I think, he is starting to remember that there’s something familiar on that ship. He flies to it -- and HOW CAN I TALK ABOUT HICCUP AND TOOTHLESS AT THE SAME TIME? Hiccup is so damn respectful of Toothless. He stands there so tentative yet warm, introducing himself to Toothless so carefully without ever assuming that his best bud remembers him. Hiccup treats Toothless like a DRAGON -- a being to utterly respect. And the LOVE that Hiccup feels -- you can feel it, too, the way his eyes try to hide how elated he feels that he is seeing Toothless for the first time in years. This is the FIRST TIME in years that Toothless has looked this wild ... this unsearchable ... that’s what I loved about Toothless. When we first met him, he was this captured beast with eyes full of meaning, a beast screaming in Hiccup’s face, this beast flying disjointedly and formidably into the misty forest. Toothless was wild, and you couldn’t always know what he was thinking with his face, though you ALWAYS knew that there were thoughts and intentions behind his eyes. I felt that HTTYD2 Toothless and ROB/DOB/RTTE Toothless had lost that wild mystery and intelligence, and that Toothless had been essentially domesticated. But his look on that ship returned a lot of what he had lost. Toothless’s face, as he pauses with his claws laced onto the bow of the ship, is neither aggressive nor welcoming, but there is yet both distance and warmth and curiosity in it. That’s the wonderful unspoken ambiguity with Toothless as an animal who cannot speak human language. We must interpret what he is saying. And I think at this moment, not even Toothless quite knows what to think as he stands there. I believe that he feels that someone he knows is on that ship, but he can’t quite be sure. Something is so very familiar, whether it’s the way the boy talks, his mannerisms, the eyes. Toothless has become unaccustomed to people, so just seeing a human being again is a lot for him. But he smells Hiccup -- and THAT’S IT! He’s totally certain that his friend has returned and he gives him the most crazily excitable welcome ever. Their love is displayed right there.

That’s all for now, folks. But the sum of the thoughts on HTTYD3 can fill a book. There’s so much in that movie left to analyze.

[filmtrash]

CMBYN ANALYSIS POSTS

THE CMBYN MOOD / PLAYLIST 

Elio/Oliver Songs w/ analysis 

BREAKDOWN OF MY FAVOURITE SCENES

First Kiss

The End Scene

The Peach Scene 

I looked at him: I wanted one more kiss.

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Convince me Oliver loved Elio as much as Elio loved Oliver 

The ending of the book

Sex Scenes 

The Postcard

An author sculpts statues while a director makes them move

Dream Sequence

Oliver needed company ft. @lilchalamet

Does Mum know?

10 times they said, ‘I love you’ without saying ‘I love you’

Why did Oliver go on to marry a woman?

Traitor (not really an analysis)

Why Elio doesn’t tell Oliver not to get married

Nosebleed Scene

Toilet Scene

Alfredo’s Story

The Blank Years

Elio’s relationships after Oliver

Oliver’s reaction to Elio and Marzia’s relationship

updated 02.08.18

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[jorisjurgen]

The Crepin-Lore Manifesto.

Part 3: Painful History

[PART 1]

[PART 2]

So, was Kerubim Crepin a good brother?

A bad brother?

For Atcham, it doesn't seem like his vendetta is due to being mistreated by Kerubim. It's not even subtext.

He's perfectly aware he's just using Kerubim to have someone to blame.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that Kerubim wasn't a bad brother.

As we've seen in The Wheel Of Fate... At the time of their childhood, he hated Atcham, viciously.

Or, he was scared of being othered, like him.

My personal pet theory, is that Atcham couldn't take life at the orphan temple anymore, being bullied for his differences.

Kerubim watched, and did nothing about any of this. They were just children, after all.

If Kerubim suffered so much from spending a single day in his brother's shoes, is it really that hard to imagine what Atcham's life was like?

Atcham lost his family too, just like Kerubim.

Nobody ever helped him. And in the end, he was probably treated as if it was his own fault, that he was mistreated.

This sort of thing would fit in, with his characterization.

He's not a bad person, just embittered by his life.

Even as an adult, he's at best treated like an ugly, neurotic freak. Despite his status as a terrifying assassin, he is not respected, just feared.

And being so old, he rightfully has no reason to believe that the world is better than that. Atcham doesn't have anyone in his corner.

And with how Kerubim, and life itself, seem to treat him, I don't blame him.

But what does Kerubim actually think about Atcham?

Because... things aren't so cut-and-dry.

Say - which character related to Kerubim looks unlike most people - enough to, perhaps, be bullied for it - and has lost their parents?

...Yeah. You know what I'm insinuating.

Loving two Black Sheep, and Parallels

...One of the things I never addressed in the last post, is the fact that besides guilt borne of thinking he took Julith's life...

Kerubim carries guilt for Atcham, too. Despite the way he often talks about him, he feels protective of his little brother.

Even the fact that he made sure that Joris wouldn't have issues with his body like how Atcham had, saying that he himself is just some guy, while Joris is special, says a lot.

Seeing an orphan, who was sure to take the brunt of that hatred upon himself if anyone knew his mother was Julith, and who looked so different from others...

How could he not think they were similar? How could he ever not want to protect him?

When Kerubim is being vulnerable, all the insults he has for Atcham dissipate.

I like to think that both Indie and Atcham were brothers that had ruined his life, yet made it worth living.

But in the end, all that's left is, well, the knowledge that he can't fix this, and the desire to, at the very least, have Joris by his side.

...The only reason Atcham ever listened to Joris was their similarity, as well as Joris's age and convictions.

But the only reason he gave family and hope a second chance - is someone finally stepping in to protect him.

And, of all the things Kerubim ever said about Atcham, only this scene really matters.

Aaaand, this draws my insane, three-part compilation of esoterically connected infodumping about the most insane family of Krosmoz to a close. Can you tell I wrote 2 giant character study fics about them yet? Can you feel that I have like 30 wip ideas in my head still?

This is just my thoughts about Atcham and Kerubim, so you know that thoughts about Joris buzz in my brain like bees - especially considering ecaflip demigods keep their memories, and what it means for this trio's relationship. Maybe one day I'll write a post about that too, but that day is NOT today.

These three love each other so much, and I hope I could make you understand what I see in them, just a little bit, after reading this.

[amysgiantbees]

Just to add some more points for people and for me in the morning.

Wyll being excluded from evil play throughs. Despite every other character except Karlach being able to come along. He was apparently planned to be able to go down this route if he killed Karlach but they never finished it.

Wyll having no unique hair despite every other main character having a unique hairstyle. Which would be an easy fix considering how many artists have shown the popularity of him with long hair.

I've heard (I want SO BADLY to romance him but the more I learnt about Wyll's content disparities the more frustrated I got so BG3 just hasn't seemed fun to me since so I've been avoiding it so I haven't romanced him yet so I've just heard) He will not offer to marry you if you save Karlach. It just plays her normal Hells scene. There's no reason why you should have to pick between engagement and saving his best friend. He can propose in Hell. It's just taking away another scene/moment from him.

Wyll's content routinely getting taken out or diminished due to it being out of character because they bowed to people's complaints in development and rewrote him (despite Lazel being infamously unpopular too). However, they don't replace it with anything new. Thus actively increasing his content disparity.

Wyll not having a scene where he really deals with the trauma of having his slaver and abuser hanging around camp for weeks. This would never be left unsaid if it was Cazador just vibing with us instead.

Similarly, Wyll's new character being such a people pleaser and so ready to fall on his own sword being under explored. So under explored that people call him boring and the mature one with nothing wrong. He has baggage and it is an important part of his character and thus you should be able to explore it in game. Have your TAV be able to call him out on his self sacrificing nature.

Halsin having more content added. Like extended dialogue about his drow abduction. Which I LOVE that he's getting more attention I LOVE Halsin but Wyll is a main character and the only black one. He should come first.

Despite being the son of the duke he has very little to say in Baulder's Gate. He's the duke's only heir who has returned after a mysterious disappearance he should have scenes, people should whisper. Shadowheart has her graffiti, and the grave. Astarion has the potion drow. Karlach has her friend. But then there's Wyll, BG's no.1 fan who can't shut up about this place before hand but then has very little to say once you get there. Doesn't comment on his hero Baulder being a squid in his head. He barely reacts to Gortash's hostile takeover of his beloved city. Not even disapproving if you cheer for him.

*This user has great stuff to say about Wyll's background as well https://www.tumblr.com/matchapancaekes/761182101522595840/where-is-this-in-game-i-keep-feeling-like-im?source=share

Tav's dialogue towards Wyll is frequently harsher than the situation calls for. Such as there being no dialogue to comfort Wyll after his transformation, at best you scold him for lying. Which is particularly galling with the Astarion people screaming to the rooftops that they should be able to hug Astarion after Cazador when Wyll can't be comforted after his transformation, when Mizora is lurking, or hugged in the epilogue. (Not to pit against Astarion people, my girlfriend is Astarion's number one fan, it's just frustrating that he has SO much content he really doesn't need anymore especially when Wyll is still like this).

Also, since Wyll has been written to be more pure good than morally grey his choice to break the pact shouldn't have lines where you can call him power hungry for doing it. The dialogue should reflect that this is him choosing himself for once. Similarly, the companions should be less harsh to him over it. They're clearly reacting to him like he's original Wyll with original Wyll's motivations and not current version Wyll.

If you kill Karlach a lot of his dialogue after finding out she's an innocent teifling is recycled from his post transformation dialogue. Which makes him seem not that upset which is very out of character and is pretty lazy.

Okay, so as a follow up to this anon's suggestion about contacting video game publications such as Gayming Magazine about the issues with Wyll's treatment in light of Patch 6 not addressing him again, if you'd like to contact some of the suggested publications, you can find them here: (scroll to the bottom for contact email):

Gayming Magazine

https://gaymingmag.com (scroll to the bottom for contact email)

Kotaku https://kotaku.com/how-to-share-information-with-kotaku-1679800733 (contains information contacting them + their email for tips) The Mary Sue (Direct link to their contact email) https://www.themarysue.com/contact/

If you know any other news publications that may be worth reaching out to, please contact me either in the replies, through anon, or through a DM and I will add them here! PLEASE BE POLITE! Provide them with detailed information about why you would like them to cover this topic. Some examples of things you might address below the cut to get you started!

If you have more suggestions I will add those as well. I'm low on spoons today so my wording may be off and I may also be overlooking some other things worth adding. Also please send Larian direct feedback! You can find a guide and relevant links on where and how to do so here.

So first and foremost, while 6 out of 6 patches not addressing Wyll's content disparity is important, it may also be good to provide more details into the other ways Larian has fallen short with Wyll, the overall anti-blackness that is present in this fandom, and so on. As some examples: How Wyll has less romance scenes than other companions, does not have an on screen sex scene, does not have a romance greeting, and even in the epilogues (which were made post-game) you are not able to hug and kiss him. He is the only companion who you can neither hug or kiss (everyone else you can do one or both of those two things). It is a common issue in media featuring a black character where they are either over or under sexualized. In Wyll's case it is certainly the latter, whether intentional or not.

How Wyll lacks agency in his own story and is the only origin companion to not be able to make his own choice during the climax of his act 3 questline. There is a huge content disparity between between Wyll and the other companions/origins that Larian has yet to address despite adding more content to both companions who have plenty an other NPCs. The only updates he receives are the ones that are universal to everyone (kisses and epilogues) and even then he is still treated disproportionately. Wyll's trauma has been sexualized and downplayed. Despite scenes in both early access and the full game making it clear that Mizora (an implied white woman) is essentially a slaver to Wyll (a black man) it is quite common in both the fandom and from Larian themselves to imply that Wyll is or should be sexually attracted to Mizora such as in the animation commissioned by Larian, Larian staff gleefully retweeting the Hard Drive article that included a part satirizing Wyll's relationship to Mizora (which, satire or otherwise was in extreme poor taste, especially considering the fandom's overall racism and the fact that the comments were mostly people unironically agreeing with it), and so on. The general anti-blackness of the fandom and such as artists excluding just Wyll from art pieces containing 'every' character, Larian leaving Wyll out of the majorly of their advertising, the constant talking over of black people in the fandom, the preferential treatment towards white characters in both patch updates and general fandom attention, and so on.

[amysgiantbees]

I just find it strange that the developers chose to rewrite Wyll. I love new Wyll I think he's fantastic and I don't necessarily want the previous version. But I find it bizarre that there was somehow so much negative feedback about old Wyll that they risked completely rewriting him.

Now I love all the companions. This is not Dragon Age Orgins where I debate recruiting Ogrun every time. But I just find it strange that the reason given was Wyll's negative feedback when most of the other characters have been unpopular too. Like Lae'zel is infamously unlikable to a great many people.

People love to bully Gale and there's even lines in game that call him pathetic. The DEV's in the IGN interview even agreed that Gale killing himself can be a good ending, " I really liked Gale setting off the bomb with the brain, and actually that felt like the right ending to me.

AS: In many ways it is, yeah." Which feels problematic to say the least, like I get supporting player choices but suicide is never the "right" way to do things.

Or even I'm pretty sure I remember Neil Newbon talking about how he was sure a lot of players had killed Astarion permanently in their playthroughs.

Then there are people being absolute freaks on the internet about Halsin all because he's polyamorous.

Like these characters are wildly popular too but they certainly have their haters. So why did they lack such confidence with Wyll? The best source I could find on early access Wyll is this article https://gamerant.com/baldurs-gate-3-wyll-early-access-story-change-karlach-explained/. It says that this change was made to make his story stronger, make him more unique, and give him more complicated emotional ties. Unless he was really basic before they did not accomplish this. He has less content so his story lacks the depth the other's do. It's also inconsistent, with you being able to put him off being a duke by telling him he'll be too power hungry which he has never been. His emotional ties are rushed. He never really confronts his father, having the tadpole do most of the work and never hashing out his feelings beyond that he's fine.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. According to the article he was meant to have a dark side like Shadowheart "According to the panel, depending on whether players allow him to go through with killing Karlach, he will become a radically different companion instead of if she is recruited." Which would have been cool but if they didn't have enough time to do that maybe they should have tweaked what they had.

Plus, according to the article in early access he was "a straightforward hero who develops a violent side regarding his patron or goblins." This article too show's that his early approval matches current Wyll pretty well except for dealing with Aunty Ethel and more goblin hate https://fextralife.com/baldurs-gate-3-early-access-companions-guide-wyll/.

I just don't know I just find it so frustrating that it was the black main character they chose to tweak and ran out of time to complete his story and still haven't fixed it with a patch. And in the IGN interview the devs kind of sounded like there wouldn't be anymore patches and it's just frustrating. Wyll deserves just as much content as any one else.

[ohgaylor]

aww it’s April 29th day! remember that analysis I’ve been talking about and significantly procrastinating for over half a year now? yeah it’s very high infidelity themed. I need to work on it again aldjfkaldhs

[transphilza]

i love c!emeralds and what u need to understand about them is that just because phil is friendly doesn’t mean he knows anything about expressing positive emotion. techno is extremely blunt and he also is 10x better at expressing himself. mfer makes long winded speeches about repaying kindness and lays out his goals and intentions to people extremely clearly. and like yes he has his guard up most of the time but when he wants to say something about how he feels techno knows how to say it. phil on the other hand can speak in soft kind tones and try to act like he knows how to comfort people because he does genuinely want to help but he can’t bc he hasn’t processed an emotion in like 200 years

[amysgiantbees]

I went to check and oh my god they are LITERALLY identical. The overshirt folds to the same side. The belt sits the same way. He has the same arm bands and singular bracer. Could inquisition shit on Anders anymore????? Or does Justice and all the Pride demons just shop at the same Ye Old Robes are Us?

The best photo I could find of Tevinter Robes, without redownloading DA, is only for fem characters buy it does certainly look different.

Giving Anders' outfit to the demon Imshael in DAI was such a low jab like what was even the point.