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skullmoss · 2 months ago

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i know veilguard leans into the age difference between emmrich and rook but i should not be shocked to learn there's a strange faction of ppl who are weirded out by emmrich being "older" considering BG3 fans treated gale like he was "old" for being "in his forties" when he's clearly someone in his thirties with bad knees and depression (he just like me frfr)

and even if he was forty he'd be. not old.

#ITS SO WEIRD.#IM AlSO JUST tired of rpgs sticking protags into the youngster role.#someday we will be free to play protags as old as we want without weird dialogue telling us otherwise.#like i can ignore it for the most part but making age difference such a Thing with emmrich is so.....????#it's weird. idk why harding harps on emmrich being older than rook. it feels out of character??#the only reason i could think of for harding to Care is if it's purely from a sol*vell*n timeline #where she saw how an older dude fucked over someone much younger but....??????#it's so weird. why is that a point of contention. you can write a romance interest who's 50+#whose whole Thing is his fear of mortality and dying.#without hemming and hawing over the protag being “younger”.

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