#normal cayde haters i dont dislike you

[ahamkara-apologist]

i dont like cayde either tbh, i got into destiny well after he died and crow was around, so i felt no attachment to him or resent over crow (who i didnt know was rezzed uldren for the longest time lol) i think its because he reminds me of deadpool who's my absolute least-liked superhero

yeah cayde feels like a marvel movie character, which is uh. not great. because i fucking hate marvel movies. Admittedly a huge chunk of me hating him is because of his fanbase, but a good portion is also just because he's an annoying jackass. Like, if he was a middle school teacher? He'd be great. Love his energy if it was directed towards kids and sullen teens. The problem is that I am neither a kid nor a sullen teen, and I do not appreciate getting a front row seat to the clownshow when there's something deeply serious going on for me to deal with (i also was one of those kids who were deeply serious and hated when adults played silly, tho, so. i probs would have hated it even then). The fact that it's all an act and that he's actually deeply insecure also makes it even worse imo, bc whoop de fucking do that means it's INTENTIONAL. I remember playing Forsaken when I just started out knowing that everyone liked him before he died and being excited to meet him bc ooo Cool Blue Robot, and then just going 'oh thank god' by the time that Uldren finally put a bullet through him. Which would have been just an 'eh, not my type' scenario if it wasn't for the fanbase plastering him fucking EVERYWHERE and whining about his death/blaming Crow and Variks and anyone even tangentially related to it even though Cayde was the one who got his ass into that hot water in the first place. Like, it was pretty explicitly his fault that Sundance died. He was a highly experienced veteran guardian and he STILL pulled his ghost out when enemies were around. Sucks to suck!! Why the fuck is HIS death so much worse than the many hundreds of innocents that Uldren slaughtered in his rampage with the Scorned Barons?? Fucking why??

i do feel really bad for the genuinely chill fans who actually like him, because he really is a good character and my type is 'cold/bitchy/angry' (plus I really, genuinely enjoyed him in FS! I wish he were like that when he was alive too!!) but also oh my god. he's insufferable and annoying and he's better off dead in literally every capacity