Well as I said I want to know what are you planning to accomplish because I don't know what's more sad the fact you call screaming into the small circlejerk a "fight for better ending" or the fact that you think this small circlejerk of a few people can actually make larian change their mind.
We want. To accomplish. Talking to other people. Who share our views. Can you read.
Originally Posted by Ecc2ca
I love the brainstorming, speculating, and sharing links that’s happening here. It’s fun and hopeful. It’s nice to see folks sharing what they like about Karlach, coming up with cool ideas about other uses for stuff like soul coins, outlining their headcanons for possible expansions. This thread seems like a really nice way to honor the character.
^^^ thiiiis
Whatever part this thread could play in a "fight" it has already played, it was seen and known as much a forum thread can be, now it's just for talking and shooting the shit (it's what forums are FOR).
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So ONCE AGAIN trying to re-rail it back I swear one day I'll learn to ignore the trolls ('cause any person with an actual life to live would leave us alone by this point).
I've actually started re-playing the game AS Karlach recently, and oh boy that's a fascinating POV. The difference between Tav internally being all "Ah shit, the tadpole, the Hells, the mindflayers, it's all so overwhelming" at the beginning of the game and Karlach at the same exact point mentally going "YESSSSSSS I AM FREE THE SKY IS BLUE THE RIVERS ARE NOT BLOOD THERE'S A COLOR GREEN" is so stark, I love her. I mean, we been knew, but it's amazing to see it narrated. And it's narrated a lot, 'cause she talks to herself.
However, on a sadder note, and this is a spoiler if you want to see her playthrough for yourself,
it also quickly starts to look like she's been aware of Dammon's bad news for a while before he ever broke them to the rest of the team. She's in pain a lot, often, to the point that it keeps her awake at night, and all the things that poured out in her post-Gortash scene are actually almost constantly bouncing around in her head. She has to wrestle with her own grief and anger just to keep the positive attitude that we see her having, because she doesn't want to waste precious time left on moping and hurting. And she doesn't talk about it to anyone!
To that extent I'm starting to think that the whole 'doomer whiplash' we got with the new added lines in Patch 2 is just jarringly implemented, but not out of character. She's just opening up more about the constant emotional swings that go on in her head every time she's alone with her thoughts (especially as time goes on). The constant tug war between "Holy shit I'm going to die" and "It's okay I'll manage" is what's actually going on inside her (haven't been to Act 3 yet, granted, but that's what the pattern is shaping up to be).
"Why must it be me?" "Because I'm strong and I can handle it." "I wish I didn't have to be strong."
Breaks my fucking heart that she keeps so much of that hidden until a breaking point - and even then some. We don't even fully realize that she's in pain pretty much from the get go - not until it becomes harder for her to hide.
My Tav would give her soul for a chance to let Karlach have that future where she doesn't have to be strong anymore.
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