Anduin is affectionately known as Blanduin after all. He’s clearly universally adored and the only reason is…
Oh wait. We hate him. That’s right.
He is Persian-styled. Definitely not “Black”.
Ah, I wrote Asian. I meant Middle-East, I’ll correct this above.
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Really over the top having this reaction over a video game.
Where are the mods?
I bet Med’an, the Jailer, and Calia are much more unpopular.
You’re only proving my point here lmao
Everyone is entitled to their own religious views long as they don’t break the law.
If Anduin were portrayed as strong and as a leader, nobody would question it.
Comparatively, Faerin is strong and portrayed as a leader, but everyone hates her for it.
I hope this helps. Seems like you’re a bit lost as to what the point is.
You are missing the point that Blizzard was trying to make with her. She is super powerful and at the center of lore BECAUSE she is a “POC”. It is Captain Marvel all over again. Woke writers are obsessed with having their perfect heroine that ticks all the boxes and which have the highest “Victim’o’meter”. She scales high because she is black, a woman, disabled and I bet somewhere buried in the story she will actually end up being a lesbian too. So of course she has to be on top- the alpha, the omega, the end all be all because Blizzard has to signal to everyone how woke they are and how amazingly diverse they are! Now are you getting it?
It makes me want to vomit too.
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It’s purely a shield against criticism that signals to a certain personality that it’s something they need to defend in order to maintain their spot on the roster of team good guys.
They’d be seen as the enemy if they don’t toe the line.
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Not once has Blizzard even made Faerin’s skin color a part of the plot. She’s just black.
People who make these sorts of connections with nothing to ground that conclusion are forever proving that they are the ones obsessed with skin color, not the other way around.
Andy we’ve known since he was a 5 polygon child. His dad was Varian Wynn for Christ’s sake. He should be powerful, but he’s wet tissue paper
Faerin came out of nowhere, tied to a recognizable name, looks nothing like him, has been thrust into the spotlight, has no weaknesses despite her disabilities, has the dumbest weapon of all time
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She will be forgotten in the next expansion, just like Taelia.
We aren’t that lucky and she’s far too valuable to Blizzard as a foil against criticism. She’s here for the long haul.
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Why? The games have done nothing to illustrate that to me. I’m not really convinced he’s all that powerful.
So this is the excuse you’re giving for why Anduin should be powerful even though they’ve never really established his capabilities and why he should be strong in the game? Nepotism?
If you actually paid attention to the story at all, you’d know that Anduin’s character is antithetical to his dad - that he is his own person and not the legacy his father made for him.
The assumption that intersectional identity fragments relatability presumes a universal subject position against which all variation reads as excessive. That’s not a critique of writing. It’s resistance to difference itself.
Representation can be poorly executed. But to conflate poor execution with the failure of inclusion is analytically lazy. Tokenism is a structural issue. It is not a character flaw.If Faerin’s traits feel inorganic the critique should be directed at narrative integration, not her embodiment of marginalized identities.
And no, “the marginalized communities” don’t speak with one voice. Reception is multivocal. Assuming otherwise is reductive and, ironically, tokenizing.
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Stop making excuses. Faerin sucks
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The pupil of one of the most powerful priests in existence has no basis for why he should be powerful?
Maybe watch the BfA opening cinematic?
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Are you unfamiliar with genetics and how they work?
I’ve noticed he’s disappointing us and his daddy since BFA
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Faerin is literally a member of the Lothar family and was trained by a paladin. What?
I’m familiar with genetics but I don’t think they, by default, make you a fierce as*-kicking machine. You still need to be trained.
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The proper way is to have someone who has led their people for thousands of years pass on leadership to a random person? Yrel went from being a slave to leader of the Draenei and fighting a demi-god in whip-lash speed.
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