Honestly I think Wyll comes off really well in his scene with the children. To me he's genuinely trying to help them. Sure he enjoys showing off for them, but I think he just genuinely likes kids. He's trying to be encouraging and playful so they don't realize just how bad of a situation they're in. And he seems genuinely sad about their situation. I think that that scene is actually when we see Wyll at his most genuinely good and decent.
Wyll has high charisma in the sense that he comes off as good-natured and easy to get along with. He's not necessarily supposed to be manipulative.
Wyll is forgettable. High charisma should be the opposite of that, unless they're trying to be forgettable. But he's also trying really hard to be a big famous hero.
I can agree with that. Every time I get to the door fight and he jumps out of nowhere shouting "make way for the blade of frontier!", I am like "What? Who? Why?". I feel like this particular scene NEEDS a cinematic to show how important and heroic this character is. So far he is the only companion not introduced by either a cutscene or a dialogue.
I think you're right. A cutscene would really be appreciated there. I think that touches on another bit of the writing fumble. We never get much chance to really FEEL Wyll's heroic reputation. We only really hear it from him, so it feels really hollow. So when we get to the reveal, that's actually undercut because we can't fully appreciate what he got in exchance and what's at risk.
On that note, I don't want his stories to just be exagerrated and mostly untrue. I think that undermines him too much. The exageration works if he on his own was the one exagerating them. But if it turns out that he sold his soul AND the stories that made him a hero weren't even true, that's just too pathetic. He has actual power thanks to the pact, he should have used that power to become the hero he always imagined he would be. Otherwise what's even the point?
