I do find it hard to talk about Wick, because I like him a lot but I have found that we're running into the Dominant Culture problem we often do in fandom.
Characters who leave a cultish or restrictive religious tradition, and who grapple with learning that what they were raised in might be not just untrue, but used to control and oppress others, are very popular in fandom. It's not unwarranted: that's a relatable experience for many people, to varying degrees.
However: the Candescent Creed, and the Chamber of Lords-Advisory in which the Sundered Houses hold power and which they are using to further consolidate power and crush dissent and rebellion in Dol-Makjar have been ruining the lives of quite a few people, and notably, wizards and fairies. They killed Thimble's closest friend not a week ago.
To put this very bluntly and very plainly: if you are relating to Wick because you are a white person who has left a conservative Christian practice, that makes a lot of sense. If you are saying "damn, why are Murray and Thimble so mean to him on the worst day of his life", that's because his family is responsible for not just the worst day of their lives, but indeed a pretty significant amount of the ongoing oppression they experience, while he was shielded from it and even benefited from it for years. It might be worthwhile for you to consider if this is how you engage with people in your real life. Wick feels betrayed by his family, and controlled by them, and is struggling with what he believes, and all of that is valid. But Murray's passion and job and friends have been squeezed in a vise over the course of at least a year if not more; and Thimble's friends and family are actively being starved out by the Candescent Creed's policies.
It's true that Wick has recently (like...literally, a week ago) learned about the Candescent Creed, and that he was not as an individual directly responsible for all of these policies, but he was, in fact, the next in line for the seat of power. Why are the people who have been struggling under House Halovar's thumb obligated to spare him sympathy for the shock of learning about what has been their grim reality for months or years?
As many people from minority groups and particularly ethnic and racial minority groups can tell you, when there's news of a mass shooting for something even tangentially related to an issue that affects our community, we hold our breath and hope the shooter was a white Christian man. Being judged on behalf of the actions of some in a community to which you belong - or recently belonged - is not fair, no, but to act as though it's a unique injustice to Wick rather than him having his first ever taste of the unfairness experienced by literally everyone else, is, at best, a very sheltered and privileged opinion to have.
Or even more bluntly, and I will admit I'm addressing this head on because this was a serious problem in the last campaign: I admire those who leave a harmful ideology behind. Often, however, this happens when they suddenly move from beneficiary of that ideology to its target. And while this separation can be immensely painful, do not demand of those who have always been the target to tend to your wounds before their own. Do not ask the minority to acknowledge you as One of the Good Ones. Do the fucking work.
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