Anders was right and justified

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EXACTLY. like genuinely? I love fenris, he is one of my favorite characters, and him being very vile to anders and mages is him being mostly well written. it is cool to be given these very wide arrays of experiences and characters to portray the actual depth of the issue at hand.

HOWEVER can anyone put themselves in anders' shoes for like a single second. bc honestly i would also be a gigantic cunt to fenris if i was anders. and anders also deserves a peace prize for not blowing up at hawke about being so buddy buddy with people who advocate against mage freedom. i'm glad anders at least does get to throw a few pointed lines at hawke, and whilst his weird questioning of hawke's romantic decisions wrt fenris - and specifically, the wording anders uses being kind of fantasy racist - imagine you watched your liberal friend hanging out with a guy who constantly advocates for your extermination LOL wouldn't you also have a few moments of extreme bitterness even in situations where it's not your place.

"oh I hate anders, I always kill him" "why do you hate him" "he's awful to/about Fenris" is a conversation I've had a shocking amount of time and it's like. W. Would you not kill him after the chantry boom if he had been nicer to fenris???????????

Like gameplay wise it's not revolutionary but neither were the other dragon age games or any of bioware's games really lol... Writing wise its clunkiness basically equals the rest of the franchise, and if you wanna complain about lore inconsistencies but think veilguard is the only culprit then you either don't know enough about the series to be listened to, or you're a hypocrite, because every single piece of dragon age media introduces insane inconsistencies lmfao.

And specifically because a lot of people kept anders alive to have a healer w them in the last straw

Now, to me, I think this offers a great deal of depth to anders, to da2's mechanics, and to its writing in general. I mean, the fact that anders is a healer is a huge part of his character, first of all, and puts him into a character archetype that he then breaks out of by also being this agent of (rightfully) violent justice. It's brilliant. It's super awesome, it's so different from the healer archetype, while at the same time INFORMED by the fact that he's a healer.

And then ofc the so called "dilemma" players wld have about anders after the chantry boom is made cooler by the fact that they suffer GREATLY for killing him, because immediately if they're not playing as a spirit healer mage hawke then they lose their healer. This is really fucking cool, gameplay and storytelling wise. This sort of decision and consequence is exactly what you want when designing a story heavy game, right. They wanted people to hate anders and kill him (bc they hate minorities fighting for their rights) and the game very much expects you to, if not downright go for the kill, then at least struggle with the choice a little bit. And what a great thing to make players agonise over: do you kill your only healer, or do you not? If your morals demand you kill anders for blowing up the chantry... Then what does it say if you to against them for a selfish utilitarian reason? (obviously, the choice is actually easy if you have half a brain and understand that anders didn't do anything wrong by blowing up the chantry, but again: I'm speaking in terms of what the narrative is trying to achieve)

But this isn't how bioware sees it. Anders being the only healer, whilst also being a character they didn't just expect but WANT you to hate, was... A mistake. It was a fucking accident and instead of seeing the added depth they just listened to people whining about it and axed one of the best subclasses in the game.

And like. Are they. Stupid? Are they just dumb? Have they never played a video game before? A fucking rpg? You're gonna take the healer out of your fucking rpg series?????? Just decide healer isn't worth putting time and energy and thought into and instead you're gonna give everyone the ability to heal w potions and Maybe have a Single healing spell??? Aren't you fucking ashamed?