Hmm... I don't think I'd like it If they made his alcohol dependency a main trait. He's neither charming, old nor pathetic enough to quite pull that off. He's already not likeable, so that weakness can't take further hits.
Still, he doesn't seem nearly as faceted to me as Gale or Shadowheart. He's almost got nothing going on for him, which wouldn't be a problem... If he were charismatic. If they go from slightly too 2D to 1D, might as well use a trashcan and start over new.
Well, I can certainly understand it wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste, though personally I’d be all for making him old and charming … and even pathetic … enough to carry it off. A sort of Ser Aaron from the Knight Errant Dragon Age comics, but with a warlock pact to explain his puzzling successes! And I don’t think that removing some of what I see as extraneous guff from his background would mean that he couldn’t be a faceted, interesting character, though absolutely appreciate my specific suggestion as to how that might be done is a matter of preference.
(On the subject of his age, I’m not sure it’s actually true he’s not old enough, by the way. The changes made to his character model for patch … 8? … already seem to have made him older and greyer, as well as Gale. I don’t recall if there’s anything in game that helps us pin down his age, but I could easily read Wyll as being in his 40s or at least late 30s. And as someone rapidly heading towards 50 myself, I’m all for party members who are also more mature. Though I feel for how creaky they’d be in the mornings after sleeping on those bedrolls!)
Wyll isn't quite the same kind of noble as Astarion. I'm starting to think they wanted him related to that one guy who protected Bg for... Reasons. Plot Reasons?
Not sure who you are thinking of here. Duke Ravenscar, who as of BG3 has been kidnapped by the Absolute’s sect?
