So anyone going through the recent nightfae campaign had some spicy stuff to go through with our precious nightwarrior g horse couple, which prompted you after a failed kiss of love to visit alexstrasa and ask her for a token of her love for who was essentially her husband: Kori
Now i want to make it clear that i dont care either way cause after bfa i have literally no quality, moral or any form of other expectations toward’s blizzard’s writing, nor do i have any kind of prejudice against certain groups who experience love “differently” but… could you just try to explain me that after all of that, why was Alexstrasa giving a monologue about loving her husband but never loving anyone as much as ysera, her sister?
I mean what kind of fanfic was this copied out of? Would it have broken the back of the writers to clarify either pro or contra whether this is just sibling love (which i have no effing idea how is related to any of what we are doing considering the entirety of the quest) or… well… yeah: basically an implication of lesb*** inc***
Cause i doubt this was written this openly out of a mistake.
You can literally read it either way, and considering the context of the quest, actually there is pretty much only one way to read this.
Thank you for the bejudging comments. I guess for those who have an attention span of twitter’s 250 characters, can easily disassociate the entirety of the quest, the context of it, and the actual reason you were sent there for, to then come up with the glorious unrelated conclusion that yes: Even tho nothing said it specifically, its obviously sibling love.
In fact, screw the fact that im literally asking why its written this unspecified that it can be understood BOTH ways, yet apparently I cant think of it any other way.
Thank you for your demonstration of coherent reading capability.
Nope, you don’t. (That’s just you) The quest and the voice-over clearly indicate they are siblings.
There is no other interpretation of that relationship (except in your head). The love and bond they share has lasted for thousands of years because Ysera was a very small and sickly whelp, the dragons wanted to eat/kill her but it was Alex that protected and nourished her back to health.
It is a very common bond between siblings of trauma and hardship.
The entire point of the quest is to show you that the bond they shared was magical and was embedded in the gift Ysera gave her. They used the gift to help two other people with a deep bond. It was very fairytale/Disney like.
It couldn’t be any more obvious that their bond is far beyond that of romance.
Alexstrasza is her sister, she nurtured her as a whelp and without her Ysera would have never made it to adulthood.
It’s not the writers fault, you just misinterpreted it (somehow).
So let me get this straight. At the first mention of two female characters that have been presented as siblings for years sharing a strong relationship, you immedietely jump to the conclusion of ‘lol lesbians amirite’ and then you tell OTHER people how narrow minded they are.
Who the F$$$$ hears Alexstrasza talking about her love for Ysera and thinks, what a nice lesbian couple.
Are you serious? Are you in a right state of mind? They’re sisters. This isn’t game of thrones. They grew up, lived and became aspects together and she’s mentioning all of that while your mind goes towards sisters and incest.
Sorry, i cant really reply anything to objectively false statements. If you are too young to understand what inc*** refers to then you shouldnt discuss this in the first place, cause you know… inc*** refers to a sibling. So you telling me that they are sibling is neither a counter argument, nor anything else beyond stating that you have no idea what you are talking about.
But lets play a game then shall we?
You and your friends are talking about your partners and the talk goes to why you love them. Then there is you who goes “oh i love him/her so much, but you know i love my sister much more”.
The literal two possible interpretations there are:
A.) Brainfart/Severe mental issues
B.) You are into inc***
Kinda different when your dad gets asked about how much he loves his wife and he responds with “i love her a lot, but i love your uncle much more”.
That is true. Should be true by the lore around them, and im not questioning that. Im asking why in the hell was it inserted this awkwardly.
The entire quest is about romance. The horses are about romance, your task is about romance, her first line is about romance how much she loves her now dead mate, but then inserts that she loves her sister much more.
HOW does that make ANY sense?
Im not questioning her love for her dear sister.
Im questioning why in the hell this was written in such a manner.
Remember your long dead husband whom you loved dearly? Yeah i do, but i love my sister much more. Sorry, you what?
Bub.
They have presented as sister with a strong relationship for over a DECADE. NOT years.
And if you could read, you’d find out that i didnt even remotely question this. Just as written above: Every part of the quest, context and ever her response is about romantic love. She is literally asked for a token of romantic love for her consort whom she btw dearly loved and mourns to date by lore, and then she goes out of nowhere “i love him very much, but i love my sister more”.
Care to explain to me what kind of brain disconnect you need to have for such a statement EVEN IF you have no romantic love for your sister?
My entire point was here that its written abysmally and literally implies an inc***ous relationship.
Responded to it twice, read above.
If you dont know the quest or the context OR the way the quest text is written, then dont jump around cause you dont have any idea what you are talking about.
I didn’t get a weird reading from the quest, instead it reminded me of Frozen where they subverted expectations so that the love that saved the day wasn’t romantic love but the love between two sisters.
I get the general idea of that too, OR ATLEAST I HOPE that was the general idea of it, but seriously: There is nothing wrong with the phrasing in your opinion considering the context? At all?
You are prompted only on romantic love across the entire quest, every each instance and even alexstrasa starts her text with references to korialstras, then the entire thing goes “oh yes, i loved my husband very much, but i love my sister more”.
How, what, why, where did that come from all of a sudden? What was the frikin logical connection between the two? Why are you putting the romantic love for your partner up against the love for your siblings?
What the f is this supposed to be in the first place?
Im sorry, i guess coherent reading is becoming a problematic skill in the age of twitter and 250 character attention spans. Im sorry, but i really feel that way.
I have no idea how everyone can disconnect the start of a sentence from the end of it.
I am pretty sure that is not the message they were trying to send. They would have gotten themselves into quite a bit of trouble if they did something like that. Incest is illegal in most countries.
The fact that you assume that incest can be openly used as a plot device in a video game with an age limit of 12 tells a lot about your ‘‘age’’ and your edgy contrarian silliness. I wonder who has no idea what they’re talking about?
NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS don’t consider that dialogue, something that happens between a lesbian couple. Which is why, they don’t think it’s sexualized. They think it’s a sister, showing her love for her dead sister.
If incest is the first thing that comes to your head, then as i mentioned before, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I can tell what this guy’s favourite kind of adult films are…
Dude the fact you read into this really sweet moment (which by the way, from knowing the lore brought a tear to my eye cus it was so touching how hurt alex still was) as something incestual is absolutely astonishing.
I love my sister more than anything, I love my son more than her. Apparently this makes me lesbian for my own sister, or into incest with my own child without even knowing it lmao.
Anyone who disagrees is a “kid” and has no reading comprehension skills apparently, which is honestly ironic considering this topic…