#not borderlands

Some examples off the top of my head: Darius talks up Camellia’s activist credentials so you can ask if he’s in love with her; Thomas tells you he was in a fire so you can ask if he set it himself. (The answer to both of these is a resounding “Dude? No.”)

And I can’t put my finger on why Jonathan does this because there’s seemingly no narrative reason. The game never brings the suggestions up again, so it’s not trying to plant these ideas in our heads by having Jonathan foreshadow them.

So the options are—Jonathan thinks he’s a far better judge of character than he actually is, or he just doesn’t have much of a sense of scale concerning how common these things are in real life. Like he was kind of living in his own dreamland even before Myrddin came along. Perhaps Jonathan’s general proclivity for wanting things to be ‘exciting’ is why Myrddin picked him in the first place... as well as, perhaps, part of the reason he went to war.