I think moving Eliksni into the city might have some negative reactions. People might jump them, might call them slurs, some weapon companies might refuse to sell them items out of fear. Who knows, there might be some police brutality assuming there are police.
Maybe he fact Eliksni used to eat human children and their own children will spread around and people as a result will refuse to let kids play with them. (I half expect Saint-14 to be tense seeing Fallen around kids because of trauma from failing to protect a village.)
I think it'd be good writing for this stuff to occur. I don't hate Eliksni but others do. People in the City might. That's natural. Good writing includes consequences. But what do you think?
That’s exactly what’s happening.Â
Borrowed Time recounts Drifter stopping an all-out bar fight between Eliksni and humans (and the Eliksni detail the rumours about children-eating).
Gridskipper tells of a civilian in the city seemingly suffering from nightmares about Eliksni breaking into his house and increased paranoia.
Riiswalker is a short look into humans literally abusing and almost murdering an innocent Eliksni in the street, as well as said Eliksni running away in fear after being saved by a Guardian who used Stasis (trauma from Eramis).
Shattered Cipher is about a human who very obviously murdered an Eliksni civilian and is trying to cover it up.
There’s more but the writing so far definitely includes consequences.Â
The Eliksni in Borrowed Time lore do say that they never ate human children (though obviously we know they can’t be speaking in the name of every single Eliksni) but they do admit that they ate our dead. Drifter is understanding about this, but that’s Drifter. I personally agree with Drifter on this issue.
Saint has so far been flip-floping between agreeing with Mithrax because there’s bigger threats (Vex), but also very adamantly expressing his displeasure about the whole thing. I’m sure he’ll relax as time goes on. It’s a good sign that he agreed to work with Mithrax in the first place and to oversee the Eliksni settlement. But he does have some harsh words:
Mithrax:
Saint:
Mithrax does not respond to this. How can he? Saint is very emotional here and he is right to have these feelings after all that he has seen.
And of course we have Lakshmi who is very adamant about the Eliksni being a threat in the future. And we have others like Ikora, Osiris, Amanda, Crow and civilians being accepting and understanding.Â
Bungie did a great job introducing the nuance of the budding alliance with the Eliksni. Not everyone will be accepting, not right away. Some people not ever, I presume.Â
