Considering I specifically used the words “in-game” it is quite obviously what I was talking about. Also I’ve read both War Crimes and Before the Storm, so, wrong again. Keep assuming, you’ll get it eventually.
I think what you’re describing here is that other characters who maybe deserve more screentime don’t get it, while Anduin gets at least some kind of appearance in a lot of expansions. I mean, fair enough I guess, but also more of a ‘I wish the characters I liked could get more screentime’ than Anduin getting all of the attention.
Btw I do agree that Anduin is a character that the devs clearly like and want to use more than others. But I think saying they’re constantly shoving him in everyone’s faces is wrong.
Could you explain why Anduin, a 16 year old child with no leadership or military experience, suddenly became High King of a military Alliance? Because Blizzard never even bothered to explain that, just shoved him down our throats.
Well I think Blizzard defaulted to assuming that the king of Stormwind will always be the High King of the Alliance. Which, I also think is dumb. I don’t think the Alliance should even have a ‘High King’ to begin with. If it’s a military/political alliance all members should be autonomous to a large degree and not have some monarch over all of them. It’s a silly premise to begin with.
There was no High King at all until MoP when Blizzard made Varian have to prove himself to the other leaders to get their approval. It was very hamfisted and stupid even then.
But then Anduin just got shoved into the position with no explanation at all.
He’s such an awful character and the story is already so overflowing with human characters that every time Anduin shows up in game or in books it just feels like he’s being shoved down our throats.
Personally I don’t have any strong feelings on Anduin as a character, I think he’s kind of boring but not much else. My main thing is that if there are problems with Anduin, I don’t think it’s screentime that’s the issue.
Both DKs and Forsaken went through some serious stuff as well, that can’t be denied. I wouldn’t blame any either if they just broke down over what they went through.
I don’t know man, I don’t really know how to respond to this. This story beat for Anduin is exactly the kind of thing I would expect someone like him to go through after what happened with the Jailer so I just don’t have any issues with it. I don’t normally like to use this phrase but there’s been a fair bit of toxic masculinity in this thread. Just let the poor guy process this.
He does actually, because if you really read what you just posted he is clearly talking about Sylvanas’s life as a living breathing person, not her time as an undead banshee. I mean, yeah it’s kind of silly. It’s not his beast moment, but he’s also not wrong in anything he says there.
Look not having a dad around and a dead mum sucks, but he isn’t hard done by he is a wealthy prince who’s always had the best things in life, he is one of the most privelidged people in the setting.
Anduin never really had to work for anything either. He just became powerful with the Light because prophecy. Magically became good at using a sword somehow. Became not just king of Stormwind, but also High King of the Alliance solely because of who his daddy was.
Wow, I had no idea! I also had no idea that her time as a living elf meant that Anduin had it much worse than Sylvanas, when she died in a genocide and got turned into a Banshee against her will.
Yeah, I did say stock background after all. That’s basically just free points in the story markets. Most people seem to really enjoy reading about rich people being “heroes” for some reason.
Regarding daddy issues… have you not paid any attention to the game? Most of the leaders have daddy issues.
One I particularly enjoy bringing up, because I hate it, is the Death Knight story ends with “Sir Speeches” using the power of daddy issues to break the Lich King’s hold over the Death Knights and turning them into a “neutral” faction.
Then there’s the whole Death of the Lich King which reveals he too had daddy issues… to the shock of no one.
Let’s not forget Garrosh “Garry” Hellscream whose daddy issues were bad enough he nearly destroyed two worlds, one twice, over them before he was finally stopped by a fellow sufferer of daddy issues… Thrall.
None of those examples were trust fund kids, which isn’t something you can just leave out. Yeah, a lot of others have daddy issues, but if you’re a rich kid who never actually fought in a war, simply having daddy issues doesn’t put you on the same level as the other characters.
