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Arator brings home an orc friend, how does Alleria respond?

WELL THAT WOULD BE FUN

Except not really, not at all. Not for her, anyways. Alleria would be extremely uncomfortable, and definitely visibly tense the entire time. The thing is, the orc friend being Arator’s friend, I’m sure they’re not bad, and that they are Arator’s friend would be enough to make her show much more restraint than she would in a different situation. It isn’t even that she trusts Arator’s judgment no matter what, because quite honestly I think she would find it naive of him to make friends with orcs, but that she would do everything possible not to hurt him in any way, so treating his friend with due respect is of course included on this. Alleria would not be openly aggressive or rude towards his friend, but I think it’d be really easy to see through the politeness she’d offer, because it would be stiff, it would be only in the surface, and yet it would still demand a tremendous effort from her because her first instinct towards orcs might no longer be open aggression, but it’s still to see them as enemies. 

If possible, she’d avoid the meeting happening at all. Alleria won’t prevent Arator from making friends wherever he thinks he can find them, but truth is she is not invested on letting go of her prejudices. She doesn’t want to make the effort. Orcs killed her family and invaded her homeland and her world, and while I think it would be possible, if extremely difficult, that she eventually let go of her antagonism towards them, Alleria doesn’t want to try — she sees no reason to. She thinks it is enough that she won’t attack them unprovoked; more than that would be too much. And people around her are surely free to do as they will, but she’ll always be doubtful when they choose to trust or befriend orcs, as she’s still unable to see them as worthy of trust and much less friendship, and does believe they will eventually show their true nature — which Alleria doesn’t believe to be about honor, as much as the orcs might like to claim it, but that it is about violence and destruction. 

‘But there are orcs that have actively tried to change that! They try to be honorable! Thrall worked to make a better Horde!’ someone might say. Well, none of that matters to her. For all Saurfang might have done right, there are a bunch of things she’d point out he did wrong; for all Thrall might have acted better and certainly actively acted to do what was better for Azeroth, she’d take issue with the fact he still saw Orgrim Doomhammer as a hero-like figure, someone worthy of tribute, someone they should name their capital after. For all the talk about the Horde being different, she’s been back on Azeroth for what? Two? Years? And since then they have committed attempted genocide against the kaldorei and open war against the Alliance; Saurfang switching sides does not change that, and that he challenged Sylvanas not when the honorless act happened, but only much later on, it truly doesn’t make her see him or his race with any more favorable eyes. In the end of the day, Alleria might have come a long way from her ‘all orcs have to die and I’ll kill every single one of them even the ones that cannot fight even the ones who are defeated children if I have to’ but she’s still deeply prejudiced against them, and her hatred hasn’t gone away completely, and that might never happen. 

So yeah, Alleria still hates orcs, plain and simple, and she is not making any effort to change that, because she sees no reason why she should. So if Arator brought home an orc friend, she wouldn’t be openly disrespectful or aggressive, but she’d be visibly uncomfortable and tense, and any politeness she offered would sound hollow and not meant because, well, that’s what it would be. I don’t think she’d actively see the orc as a threat, even if she’s always distrustful of them, which is why I think what she’s most likely to do is to try to leave as soon as she could without it being offensive/disrespectful — not because she cares for the feelings of his friend, because she really doesn’t, but because Alleria cares for Arator’s feelings. Avoiding them altogether is what she’d think is best for everyone, because she wouldn’t be able to keep the polite act; it’d either become ignoring them or acting antagonistic and she wouldn’t want to do that to someone Arator considers a friend, so she’d try to just. Not have to be there.