#and this comes from someone who honestly voted for python almost all throughout cyl

[saint-cichol-is-watching]

Okay but real talk I love how IS really went all out with Gatekeeper. They saw this (lovable) NPC win a popularity contest against all odds by a landslide, beating the face of the franchise and one of the most popular lord of the series in his category and scoring more than both female winners combined and instead of backing out or just give him the worst kit imaginable they just went ahead and embraced the joke.

He got an amazing artwork, probably one, if not the best of the game so far, a handful of inside jokes inside his dialogues, a powerful kit. Literally two of the four chapters of the Forging Bonds main storyline revolve solely around him, just a man, standing up to a god with nothing but an old lance, getting beaten shitless to the point everything goes dark and he actually thinks this might be the end but still not giving up and standing strong until reinforcements arrive and he knows for sure the gates are safe. Which ends up with the god excusing herself for underestimating him and deeming him worthy and people that he admires and considers as heroes recognizing him as a hero as well.

Honestly like I applaud the effort made for him !