I think Delphine is actually a kinda cool and well written character. I'd used to not super like her, but thinking more about her position both within the plot of Skyrim and within TES lore, she's a lot cooler.
What do you mean the badass emperor's secret agent/dragon slayer turned renegade Thalmor fighter is a bad character? I mean, sure, she's a bit obtuse when you first meet her, but like, she's actively been in hiding for years, and is trying to not get fucking killed by fascists, which, y'know, reasonable.
Sure, asking to kill a character who does some mentoring to you is maybe an overstep, but it makes sense for one of the very few surviving members of the ancient DRAGON HUNTING ORGANIZATION to suggest that this dragon, who has killed a lot of people in the past and for all she knows is still killing people (dragons look a lot alike, can you tell a blood dragon from a legendary at a glance when they're flying overhead? Probably not) to ask you to kill a dragon. I wish there was an option to say "nah, he's chill, he taught me a lot of stuff about the Thu'um," but since there's a crazy amount of cut content, and unfinished plotlines, I don't think there would have been a way for that to happen.
Also, with how the fandom treats other warrior women like Uthgerd the Unbroken and Mjoll the Lioness, you'd think the lady who kills dragons and fascists for a living would be treated better. Hell, Astrid gets more grace, even though she ran the Dark Brotherhood into the ground, set you up to get killed, and got your friends killed. She gets grace because why, exactly? She said sowwy? But Delphine gets no grace because she's worried about a dragon being left unchecked. Sure.
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