i romanced Wyll on EA and I was shocked to see how much different he is. He had more personality in EA in my opinion.
I think the proof of racism is the fact that people will dislike him no matter what. People in EA complained that he was boring apparently even tho I think he was more interesting than FR. And now people think hes even more boring, sorry but I do.
I want to give another perspective about Wyll tho, wyll in EA was more aggressive (every other companions were) but you need to remember that Larian is a white studio with main office in Belgium afaik and DnD is massively white, I say this as a non-white. I will say that the change to wyll's character already takes diversity and sensitivity issue to account. Because I do believe they changed Wyll to be mild and goody two shoes because Larian did not want to fall into aggresive and hypersexualized black man trope. So they changed him, now why he had less content it was because his story was rewritten and new lines had to be recorded. They probably did not have time to flesh his current story in a game as ambitious as this. People compared him to Astarion as a proof of racism bur Astarion only got minor changes not a complete personality change meanwhile Wyll had to be rewritten. Wyll in EA hates goblin, had a warped sense of justice, vengeful, and mizora was his ex that he still had feelings for. You need to persuade him to stop thinking about mizora to be able to sleep with him. In the end I do beliebe Larians intention was well, writing about a black man is hard because there needs to be consideration and they already tried to be sensitive by removing Wyll's aggression sexuality. (Though i dont think he was, it was just my guess because now he isnt in relationship with Mizora. Its probably to prevent him being too simular to gale, but the fact that it's wyll and not gale that's changed despite mizora being front and center in the promo leaads me to beliebe they wanted to avoid hypersexualization of black men)
Thays my two cents, i wish they would included back EA wyll but its already a lost cause now.
