I hear a lot about how Sylvanas shouldn’t be redeemed - and I’ll be frank, I don’t think I know the word exactly for what I want her to be.
Do I want her to be the “good guy?” Someone who was good all along, who’s actions place their atrocities in somehow a “good light?” no.
But I don’t want her to die as a Villain, because i feel like that runs counter to everything we’ve seen of her so far.
Sylvanas Windrunner has been a tragic villain throughout her storyline - she’s someone who has caused pain because she does not know how to deal with her own, and has alienated everyone around here because of her own responses to trauma.
Does any of that excuse her actions? No! Hardly!
But it would be really nice for this to catch up to her - and for her to realize this. Painful, absolutely - frankly it’d be soul-destroying, realizing that there really was no justification for your acts other than your own petty hatreds.
But it’d be nice to see as a reader, as a player, because it’s showing a character, showing a person, realizing their faults…and maybe trying to atone for them.
It wouldn’t redeem her of her actions,
It wouldn’t lessen my hatred towards her character,
But it would give me a little more hope.
And I think we all need that right now.