♫ ♬ Notre dame de Paris (musical) Julie Zenatti, Patrick Fiori -- Ces Diamants-La ♫ ♬
Celui que mon coeur aime
The one my heart loves -
Est un beau chevalier
A wonderful gentleman,
Qui ne sait pas lui-même
Who doesn't understand himself
Combien je peux l'aimer
How much I love him.
Si je ne le sais pas
Even if I don't know it,
Je le vois dans tes yeux
I can see it in your eyes
Celui qui t'aimera
The one who loves you
Sera un homme heureux
He will be lucky.
Ne cherches plus l'amour il est là
Don't look for love anymore - it's here
Il est là pour toujours je le crois
It will always be with us, I believe in it,
Ce sera un beau jour que le jour
That day will be wonderful
Où l'on se mariera
When we get married.
One of the things that drew me to writing Wyll is specifically the fact that he’s underdeveloped in the game. The other characters are so richly depicted in the canon that it’s almost impossible to improve on, and it’s not particularly interesting to rewrite scenes that were already so brilliantly executed.
But Wyll… Wyll has all this great set-up that tragically the game did basically nothing with. He’s a demon-hunter who was cursed to become a demon. He’s too ashamed to face the tieflings he rescues from death for fear they’ll see their tormentors in his face. His father kicked him out of the house for dealing with a devil. He can never explain to his father why he did it. His father is disgusted by him and he still loves his father with his whole heart. He’s wracked by self-loathing but instead of becoming bitter or resentful, it’s a cross he willingly chose to bear and he’d trade away his soul all over again to save one other person’s life.
If he weren’t a warlock he’d be a paladin: not the paladins of D&D 5e, but the older concept of the paladin as a person whose core ethos is self-sacrifice and mercy and love. But love is the paladin’s curse, because in its idealized form it is unconditional. It’s easy to love innocent children or grateful refugees. But he also loves people who think he’s a monster. He loves the tieflings even though he sees it in their eyes that they don’t trust a servant of Mizora. He loves his father even though the man openly hates him. And it hurts so, so much to love people who hate you - especially when you yourself believe their reasons for hating you are justified.
And of course Wyll is still a young man and he’s imperfect in some very charming and silly ways; he loves his goofy superhero identity and he can’t resist talking his exploits up to the kids and he would die for you but he’ll still give you shit about your ethically sourced fair-trade GMO-free organic rat-blood diet. But he would die for you. He’d go to hell forever for you. And he’d do it even if you’d never know what he’d done.
i love wyll so much. he's a prince he's a demon he's unrelentingly good he's trained in ballroom dance he does eldritch blast. he named himself the blade of frontiers. baby boy you're so corny i need to kiss you on the mouth
"No one knows better than I do the deep shadows haunting Baldur’s Gate. But I also know you can find light if you know where to look. And this I promise: you can always look to me."
Trying to justify how quickly I made him and Karlach sleep together in my origin playthrough. A reconsideration of what counts as "proper courting" when time is scarce.
Not gonna lie I dont think there will be any hope for extra Wyll content, I want to make him a Duke then marry Tav, I was hoping for a wedding or anything to make up for the lack of sex scene but considering Larian is done with BG and DnD in general yeah...
Being black (Wyll) among a lot of white people will always get you the short end of the stick