#anevay

You know, I didn’t have any problems with “The Gathering” beyond going “Why don’t they just TELL Anduin and the others “Sylvanas and I are happily married and she just likes to do kinky stuff sometimes”. She said “Where’s the drama in that”. Okay, fine.

But then at the end of the story we get THIS line.

“You actually cared for Arthas Menethil as a child?” she asked. “That… must have been a particularly cruel irony for you.”

“Not really. And ‘cared for’ isn’t really the word I would use. The boy was a self-entitled brat. His father seemed to put it in his head that he was entitled to own Jaina when they grew up,” Anevay said, her brow furrowing. “Having been the pawn of nobility marriage politics myself, I came down very hard on him for that. When the initial rumors about his betrayal went out I wasn’t really surprised. Jaina on the other hand was absolutely adorable at that age.”

“I see,” Calia’s lips pursed into a thin line. “Perhaps if you simply had more time to challenge what he was brought up to believe, things might have ended up differently.”

Okay...NO. Do you know why this doesn’t work? CALIA MENETHIL IS ARTHAS’S SISTER...and SHE WAS FORCED INTO A POLITICAL MARRIAGE. Her dad arranged a marriage between her and Daval Prestor. Calia was distraught by the decision and she told Arthas he should marry for love rather than politics.

So ARTHAS HIMSELF wouldn’t have been like “I’m owed Jaina”. Not ONLY because he and Jaina genuinely LOVED each other, had been best friends for years and years and there’s nothing in canon to indicate he was a self-entitled brat, only slightly headstrong and confident, which isn’t the same as being an entitled asswipe, AND they’d fallen in love naturally on their own, he never thought he deserved her or was “owed” her, in fact, the idea would have been REPUGNANT to him because HE SAW HIS OWN SISTER FORCED INTO A MARRIAGE SHE DIDN’T WANT, AND SHE SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM “YOU SHOULD MARRY FOR LOVE”. 

This passage is insane. It’d be like saying “Luke Skywalker was a childhood bully!” Uh...no! There’s nothing we’ve seen of his past or his personality or in canon to indicate that. 

The idea that HIS OWN SISTER would react to what Anevay said with “Oh yeah totally” or something like that when SHE would know Arthas better than Anevay...AND the whole “political marriage forced on me thing” is TREMENDOUSLY out of character.

Naturally, I pointed all of this out in a comment.

And, of COURSE...Lily Orchard deleted it. Because God forbid I point out major out-of-character-induced holes in the story that make no sense when you actually stop and think about them. 

Can you not do ONE story without the main characters from said fandom acting super OOC? You keep doing this in the Sith Resurgence. Now we’ve got even more of it in your Warcraft stories. All you had to do was just end the story there. But noooooo, you HAD to throw in that dig at Arthas because f--k him, even though Sylvanas did worse shit than him when she was in full control of her faculties than Arthas ever did. Oh, but she gets a free pass for her atrocities because you wanna fuck her.

How  is that ANY different than people who overlook what Kylo Ren does because they think he’s dark/sexy? It’s the same bloody principle. You’re giving a character you like a pass for their evil shit because you think they’re hot. You’d be tearing your hair out if somebody was trying to excuse Kylo Ren’s BS, but because its Sylvanas, you don’t care.