Wyll's dilemma feels always odd but I recently had the probably oddest version of it. He started to tell the group about his ambition to become a politician after the whole Ansur situation, Gale mentioned the horns might prove a problem but Wyll insisted, then I allowed him to choose for himself and ... he backpaddled, distancing himself from the idea he himself had brought out of the blue only moments ago. It felt very, very odd. In general his conflict is not very well developed. Why does he even want to become a politician? He does not seem to have much love for the upper class apart from the dancing opportunities it offers. Because he wants to meet his father's expectations? Because he wants to stop corruption? Maybe I have missed a crucial piece of information, but for me the politician plot always jumped out of nowhere. As a side note, it's hilarious that Wyll's politician route is treated as his "bad" ascension path.
Along with the matter of agency, it also bothers me how often he is treated as a secondary character in his own content. The Emperor was mentioned, but the difference in his epilogue between when he is with Karlach and when he is alone is also noticeable. When he is alone, he is awesome. He has a lot of things to say, no matter if he is a politician, the Blade of Frontiers or the Blade of Avernus. I also very much enjoy *how* his character is written in all of these endings, both the more dignified politician, and the adventurer eager to tell you of his exploits are very charming and leave me wondering where this Wyll was all along? When Karlach is in the picture, she gets to say all the interesting stuff and Wyll is left with barely nothing. Recently the Avernus sequence was added for everyone (very idiotically placed between the romance-ending and the epilogue) and here Wyll is given the unaltered Tav-role without any agency and Karlach treats him as if he was new to this sort of thing. This feels very wrong considering how the two of them first met, when Karlach was the prey and Wyll the hunter, chasing her through Avernus.
I agree with how oddly the politician ending is handled. I don't think it seems to expand his characterization or anything, and it seems like we *should* be getting the idea that he's being power-hungry but it's not really played with much? You can have characters with vastly different endings and what it means for them, but with Wyll it kind of feels like all of his endings are somewhat neutral. When you see him in the epilogue he seems to be doing well enough as a politician, unlike the uncanny feeling Ascended Gale and Astarion give.
