#This also kinda goes into my absolute beef with them including the dark riders in the seasonal events

[shiroselia]

I know going onto the “We like Sabine” site and going “Wow I really dislike everything about the Eq festival and what it’s doing with MC and Sabine” is brave at absolute best, but alas

Like here’s the thing, it reeks of fanservice for the detriment of the actual main plot, which I have way too much familiarity with from other franchises, and it’s Really obvious that this is a thing only because SSE knows that people a) want a morally ambiguous MC and often headcanon theirs as such (nothing wrong with this at all, y’all do y’all you’re doing great) and b) that people find Sabine Really Fucking Hot (if they know people thirst for Ydris, they know people thirst for Sabine, and once again nothing bad about this, y’all do y’all)

But it makes Absolutely no sense to the current narrative that SSE are writing in the main story quests that MC would actually be morally ambiguous, the only instance of that we’ve seen comes from Mr fucking Sands of all people, so MC suddenly being all #Bad and #MorallyGray just doesn’t make sense in the current place where the main story is, and therefore it just makes me go “Oh y’all only did this for fandom cookie points” (which is fine for the fans, but it always feels very dumb for a company to go against their own established canon to appeal to fans because it makes their story and narrative look weaker if they have to literally go against it to do something like this)

It’s just a huge case of having your cake and eating it too, either MC is ambiguous and then you fucking commit SSE, or they aren’t and then you don’t pretend they are for an event which you Really can’t decide if it is actually canon or not

(It also makes Sabine looks less threatening by comparison, very similar to what happened with Jessica and the Beeper plot, where she just looks silly because she can’t even sabotage One Event with fucking Fireworks, so much for being a part of the big bad squad)