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icharchivist · 19 hours ago

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sometimes i forget people didn't read the books and don't know Illario was extremely dumbed down in Veilguard, and i see takes and i have a double take like "well no that's not true he's not l--" and then i remember that i have a total different understanding of Illario than someone who only played the game because I consider Book!Illario better and have a very complicated headcanons to try to connect Book!Illario and Game!Illario together but if i had a choice i'd disregard Game!Illario in a fucking heardbeat

and then i see takes based solly on his Game characterization and i get scandalized for a second before the grief of "right the Game made 0 effort with this character" really hits me and i feel sad again

#lots of people are saying the Game is overly reliant on extended material but i'm mixed on that #on one hand: yes it is if you want to care about say Evka or Antoine and learn more about Lucanis and Neve and Illario #... but also it's not because the game's characterization are so different they might as well be different characters #and you'll just suffer trying to reconcile the two together #Book!Illario is so fucking cool and interesting and he made me cry in The Wake #in the game he's just a parody of Scar with no substance #where is the man who freed slaves for Lucanis despite him calling Lucanis out for it #where is 'I was always following him everywherE... now there is no one else to follow...'#also tbh i think the artbook kinda hints that Originally it's ZARA who manipulated Illario not the other way around #something got switched around for the cheapest unwarranted twist of all time #i see people call Zara 'whats her name' bc she's so forgettable and i lose years of my life considering how dope her intro is in the book #all of this to cheapen Illario. it fucking sucks.#sorry i saw someone say Illario was bad at manipulating and i almost started to complain #and then suddenly i remembered how different Book! and Game! Illario were and i wanted to cry #i complain about Solas a lot but i hate Lucanis' arc almost just as much #having loved the books for 4 years before the game just did so much to destroy me #and no im sorry it's not as bad as the DAI related books.#im going to cry i hate it h--#(still follow what i believe is a Veilguard-only Lucanis fan and im crying blood)#(not their fault but my god this fucking game.)#(how do i explain Book!Lucanis and Book!Illario are super interesting but their game counterpart are kinda mid to bad)#ichasalty #ichatalks about da #ichablogging davg

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