FablexDreams

…but at the same time people complaining about it being “woke” is so funny because wdym??? fable??? woke??? no way!!!! the game that has a potion to let you change genders at any point??? the game that has multiple queer characters (including reaver btw) and multiple cross-dressing options??? that fable???? nah, it’s never been woke at all, right????????

these posers make me laugh. tell me you’ve never played a fable game without telling me. all those factors made the previous games what they are. which, unfortunately for homophobes and the close-minded, is half the reason the games were so beloved.

One of the only outlets in her life when she dies is writing. She doesn't let anything stop her, she searches for good coals, she'll wait until Sparrow is sleeping or occupied to write, she writes over her own drawings, she keeps her journal beside her bed, she makes up stories to keep her sibling entertained, Rose is a writer.

While the rest of her life she is fighting and clawing for survival, working to keep not only herself but Sparrow alive, her needs and wants are second to theirs. The only real thing she keeps, the only thing she has that isn't violently ripped from her.

I can see an adult Rose, occasionally maybe, leaving to adventure, maybe to learn new things for her stories, but with how dangerous Albion is, and how much shes gone through as a child, her being able to put all her energy into the one thing that has always been freeing for her? It would be the ultimate freedom. Less worries, easier access to materials, no more writing in the dark, or over things she already made.

Between the two of them, I think Sparrow is the adventurer in any timeline, and Rose the the creative that needed room to grow.

Time to be a child who misses her mothers singing as she brushes her hair, or who thinks of her father laughing and playing with her and her sibling chasing them through the fields when they're meant to work. She can't spend her nights weeping that theres no one to hold her, and no dinner waiting when she's hungry.

Shes not got the time for her feelings to get in the way of her taking care of Sparrow. She'll have to wait to mourn until Sparrow is more grown, or someone pities them and takes them in.

The hero of oakvale has no idea that Theresa's alive but also no idea if shes dead, unlike with Brom he doesn't see her body, it lets him live with the hope that she's still out there, and she is, and while their reunion is short, Theresa being drawn to do other things, our hero had the comfort that she is alive, able to sufficiently take care of herseld, and she has an idea of how to find him.

Sparrow wants to avenge Rose, to take Luciens life in a way that is more intentional than his taking of their sisters was. They think getting revenge will sooth the ache in them, to bring them closer to who they used to be before they lost the only person they had that cared. And then, at the end, they are given a moment, a single moment of hope that they're going to get their sister back, just to have it snatched away as quickly as it's given. Sparrow never reunites with their sister, they never really thought they could, but they had hoped, and are left with the hollowness that comes with it that hope being cut from them.

But the Hero of Brightwall? They give up on Logan, and are never really shown to want him back. They consider their relationship with him ever fractured after what happens with Elliot/Elise, and everyone else tells them he is a lost cause, and they don't refute it. They show no desire to bring their brother back to who he used to be, perhaps they don't even remember that version anymore, they spare his life, but spend no time with him, they don't forgive him, they don't resist when he says he's going to leave Albion. They know now that Logan was put in an impossible postion, but that part of them, the part that's still angry with him, the part that heard all throughout their journey how Logan is an insult to their parents memory, a blemish on their lineage, entirely unforgivable, wins out above any part or them that still loves their big brother and wishes to keep him close.