#but I cannot deny that blizzard literally did this to her when it would've been better if they didn't

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I have many thoughts about Sylvanas as I am playing WoW after 13 years and most of them boil down to the statement "Sylvanas became like Arthas" is not a narrative one, but it's ironically criticism of how she was handled.

Blizzard made her "become" like Arthas. Blizzard did not know how to write a female survivor who is angry and not nice and doesn't take the high road of forgiveness without making her commit the same things that were done to her and her people in the first place. Blizzard made her raise people against their will back in Cataclysm and Blizzard made her commit genocide on the Night Elves. The fault is entirely in the writers who just hated her specifically and not on the way Shadowlands tried to do some kind of patch job on it.

Not to mention Blizzard completely ignoring the fact that some of the things Arthas did to her are a clear allegory for certain things and it's absolutely unacceptable to make her "become" like him. It's completely reckless and terrible to lead her character like that.

Sylvanas should've been unforgiving and mean and vengeful, but the statement "Sylvanas became like Arthas" was not written in Shadowlands. They were doing this to her consistently since Cataclysm and they just doubled down on it every now and then. Sylvanas had writers who didn't want to understand or love her and that's sad.