#redflight

I really need to vent about this as it's REALLY bothering me.

Wrathion is... or WAS... such a better character. He's a far more complicated character than most might realize, and is a character I can personally relate to as an abuse survivor.

I'm so pissed off about Wrathions "development" in Dragonflight. In Visions of Nzoth; we get to see him being more mature, more calculated, more tempered compared to when we meet him in Pandaria. HE WAS ACTIVELY GROWING UP AND BEING MATURE. But blizzard turned it around and DESTROYED ALL HIS PROGRESS JUST FOR "haha young dragon is brat!"  and just.... It's so frustrating as someone who watched a character grow and mature and living vicariously through that.

I'm so pissed how people treat him. Both players and npcs. Sabellian and co had DECADES on Outland and had SO MUCH time to learn how to free their kin. Yet they CHOSE NOT TO. Now they scream and cry "OH WRATHION IS SO HORRIBLE! HE CHOSE TO KILL THEM INSTEAD OF HELP THEM!" When they BLANTANTLY leave out massive facts... ya know... Like how Wrathion was hatched DURING the Cataclysm??? The time where the entire flight was ACTIVELY RIPPING APART AZEROTH?!!?!?! His choices at that time were  a) get killed by the black flight. b) get killed by the red flight. c) get corrupted and then killed like the rest. or d) Protect azeroth from the flight.

Wrathion wasn't born with the information OR time to learn how to free them. Had he tried, he would have put himself at GRAND danger of being killed by the old gods or by Deathwing and the flight themselves. THERE. WAS. NO. TIME. contrary to what Sabellian and co say.

Wrathions trauma stemmed not just from Deathwing, but from the Red Flight too. We the players, get to help Rheastraza purge a black egg... which turns out to be wrathion. But those who didn't play Rogue in Cataclysm; don't know that. Which pisses me off as his origins are so hidden. and It's so vital. Now you and this red dragon put this egg through so many tests, which we later read in Wrathions journal; HE REMEMBERED THEM. And they were intrusive, violating, painful. But the agony doesn't stop there; he was taken to a red dragon area where he was "looked after." Based on the way the leader there (i forget her name) spoke about the egg when it was stolen away by the Rogues of Ravenholdt manor she clearly didn't care about him as a whelp. Just as a thing.. or seemingly worse. A *black egg.*   ya know.. despite being let in on the fact that this egg was purged.

now when the Rogue player character gets sent to steal him back; we find that he's hatched... and pissed. Wrathion hires you to help him fight off the flight, while sending back the red dragon who accompanied said player with broken legs with a message that "he won't be a prisoner to anyone anymore." ya know... reasonable. a tiny bit aggressive but reasonable. But that's the worst he did at this point. AND IT WAS JUSTIFIABLE.

Once you finish his final quest, "Patricide." You come back TO FIND THE WHOLE MANOR BEING ASSAULTED BY THE RED FLIGHT. Instead of trying to reason with him, treat him as a sentient person, or any care; THEY JUST DECIDE TO MURDER HIM AND EVERYONE IN THE AREA.

Now to Pandaria.. We find him a lot in the Valley where if we remember well, is DESTROYED with Sha menace. Sha.. or also knowns as "the Breaths of Y'sharj"... old god. If we remember how old gods work; they THRIVE on negative emotions; paranoia, fear, anger, pride.... Gee sounds familiar?? Ya, Wrathion was a PRIME target and was so actively close to it all. But we forget; N'zoth was still active at that time too. Wrathion makes a comment in later years, during Visions of Nzoth, about despite him being purged; ***he wasn't immune.*** Now why would Wrathion who wants to help and protect azeroth, go to lengths for chaotic actions?? He was led astray without being aware of it. And since he was so secretive; all we could assume was that his attitude was just him and that he was just a dumb idiot.... I believe that Wrathion during pandaria was influenced. And having consumed the heart of Y'sharj... only worsened his chaotic emotions that OTHERS have destroyed. Yet he's treated like he's just an idiot... Ya he fucked up; but there's so much more to him.

Now i'm so pissed how Alexstraza treats him. She seems aware of how his situation started; yet still makes scathing comments and COMPLETELY disregards the idea of perhaps mending the rift between them???? Some fucking "Queen." And from the history I've seen of her; she only really cares about herself, her flight and those she chooses. Unless it's a Very Big Event^TM which was like... 2 times?? So many things could have been stopped had she done her damn job.

SPEAKING OF DOING HER DAMN JOB: Doing quests with Emberthal, we found a recording of Neltharion talking about how Alexstraza and the other aspects refused to believe him when he tried to warn them about the Incarnates war. HE TRIED TO WARN THEM AND GET HELP. THEY ABANDONED HIM! THEY BETRAYED HIM AND HE SUFFERED FOR IT.

Ahsoka's ship was having troubles and so she was working on fixing it. Sweat had been forming from moving parts around and trying to diagnose the problem, but she didn't seem any closer to finding it out. She was frustrated and it was evident in her posture.

[Grown Adults Meme from @red-flight for Wedge.]

15. Trying to be quiet while laughing themselves stupid. ~ Tycho or Wedge, maybe both, your choice ------------

"I'm such a kriffing hypocrite ... !" Thera mumbled behind her hands. They'd been covering her mouth for several seconds now, tightly enough that they might make it difficult to breathe - or maybe that was due to the hysterical giggles she was trying to suppress.

"I keep saying no to his pranks, but I'm letting you do this - !" Letting them. Not helping, not really, unless not telling when she found out (and very definitely not stopping them) counted. It probably did. But if she needed to she was quite prepared to argue that it had been entirely the boys' idea.

But there was still a tiny flicker of guilt as people wandered innocently into the cafeteria, ready to check the Specials Board. Which now just happened to sport a still shot from a certain holovid in Wedge's hidden files; the one where Wes Jansen had ended up in front of the entire squad, butt-naked except for a stuffed plush toy.

[Drunk Confession Meme from @red-flight for Wes.]

"Can I tell you a secret? No one knows this. Not even me." ------------

Lashes lowered, contemplating what to say. Or rather, what tack she ought to take this time around. Nature stirred itself up for some sass, on the tip of her tongue and silently encouraged by the habit she'd ... fallen too much into, regarding Wes.

In her own defense he did regard himself as the Prank Master of the base, and tended to live his life like a salesman, trying to get people to buy something they really shouldn't. But that was usually when he was sober, not rolling the base of a glass around on a bar to leave damp rings. Add in that Thera was starting to dislike the person she'd become around him, and she decided on benefit of the doubt.

Thera was pretty certain she'd been a serious culture shock for Wes. Or maybe a figurative hip-check was a better term. "You know you can't ask Hobbie because he'd tell you to kriff off." Maybe. Possibly. Or not, depending on whether he figured the risk was worth it to get Wes to shut up. She, on the other hand, was consequence in spacer's boots, where banthashit didn't just not work but received active resistance.

In good humour or not, she just didn't appreciate being treated like a sucker.

"You mean," Rephrasing, a little relieved that he seemed to have caught on and was going for open pleas instead, "'will I pass up the opportunity to piss off either the base commander or a visiting Mandalorian with notoriously bad impulse control'? Hmm, let me think. Yes!"