E: Whoever suggested killing off Krile is the most Krile thing they could do to her, lmao.
The worst part is that every time someone voices their frustration over Wuk overtaking the plot and the player character being sidelined the community will dogpile them with counter arguments like “this was supposed to be Wuk’s story! You’re role was to be her mentor! The plot doesn‘t have to revolve around you all the time! You’re just mad you’re not the main character and the narrative isn’t jerking you off!”
Which misses the point of the criticism towards Trooncat, if we're assuming they are arguing in good faith.
But they aren't. Since XIV reddit is generally so over the top sensitive with moderation, they can't out and out accuse someone of transphobia because that's 'toxic behavior.'
So they dance around it and try and bait people into saying haram things. It's all so tiresome.
The issue isn't that the story isn't about the WoL. The story has drifted away from the WoL before with the WoL just being a vehicle for dismantling the current monster of the week, it's the the story is poorly told, the characters have the depth of a puddle in Death Valley, and one character dominates the narrative so much over all the other characters.
This isn't a case of 'transphobia' (although yes, there are people who do hate WL/Dawntrail based off of that, but Grummz doesn't actually play the games he whines about, so...), it's just a simple case of bad narrative combined with overexposure and is one that has happened before. (See also: Jesus, Green in World of Warcraft's Cataclysm.)
You know what I’d rather have the narrative jerk me off and treat me as the most special person in the world than be sidelined in the story by the most insufferable characters to exist in this game. At least the writing was still good when they did that.
What's so disappointing is that there were so many ways they could have explored and exposed us to Tural in exciting and engaging ways that still accomplishes the goal of putting Wuk Lamat in the spotlight and doing the whole rite of succession thing. And there's infinitely more ways to explore the world. I don't give a shit if I'm the Chosen One or whatever, although I do have one conspiracy theory going that I hope doesn't come to life (basically, Wuk is also a piece/shard/whatever of Azem the Wanderer) but that's more just not wanting anything to do with Wuk anymore than anything else.
I know I'm going around in circles with this shit, but it's just so annoying that people can't have an honest acknowledgement of Dawntrail's shortcomings.
