#i still dislike what they did with Siege and Damazti

[kara-knuckles]

Finished my reread of episode 13, and I'm once again angry about Baird's treatment compared to Allerdale.

I actually like Allerdale as her own character, but it really irks me that the game plays the childhood friend angle with her, despite Siege only knowing her for a week. Yes, meeting Siege left a very strong impression on little Allerdale, but Siege doesn't remember it. She only recalls it during her Mausoleum of Kings visit, right before Allerdale betrays her, and yet it is enough to qualify her as "an old friend".

Meanwhile, Baird is basically Siege's sister in everything but blood. They grew together since they were kids, they lived under the same roof, fought the same battles, watched the same shitty movies. But she is pretty much immediately forgotten about, even though it was really easy to give Siege a talk with Delphine about the important people they lost. Heck, they could have amped the angst by pointing that Delphine lost both her mom and a good friend in a span of a day.

And the story treats their deaths very differently. Allerdale is mourned. Allerdale is tragic. And yet, she isn't even dead. But Baird? She completely disappears from the lives of everyone. The only time she is brought up in episode 13 is to say that Delphine is a friend of Siege's friend, and I think she isn't even named in that conversation.