wyll/karlach is such a good fucking ship. it’s just like. i was going to fight you, i viewed you as my enemy and you did the same to me, and then we realized that we’ve both just been hurt and manipulated by people more powerful than us. wanna be friends? i met you properly a few minutes ago and i’ve decided i’d rather be punished by the demon who owns my soul than hurt you. i want to touch you so bad but i’ll hurt you if i do—can i touch you? i shouldn’t touch you. we’ve known each other for three days and i would literally die for you. we’ve known each other for three months and i never want to be away from you. i cannot save you from having to walk into hell, but i can make sure you don’t walk alone. our lives were set up as tragedies through no fault of our own, and maybe we can’t escape that, maybe we can never live normal lives, but we can bear these burdens together. i love you. you will not face this alone.
at the start of the game karlach and astarion are absolutely fucking reeling from being suddenly freed and are in a state of manic joy that would probably seem alien to them like a week ago, while gale has been locked in his depression tower for so long he's almost completely forgotten how to talk to people. shadowheart has not a single fucking clue whats going on because shar keeps slurping up her memories and lae'zel is literally in the midst of her ultimate nightmare scenario and trapped on an alien planet with a bunch of jackasses who have no idea whats happening. so almost everyone has experienced a situational personality shift and isn't quite the person they were a year before you met them. EXCEPT Wyll. Who is just like "this isnt even the weirdest thing thats happened to me this month." my man got scooped up, tadpoled, and slammed back and said "oh well, not gonna ruin my day" and went about his business teaching self defense to children and slaying evil beasts. He didn't even seem confused he literally did not give a shit. no urgency. He's like "I'll put that in my day planner but is gonna have to wait until after i hunt down this demon." When you recruit him there is no sense of "oh man we really gotta help each other because we have the same problem" he just would have said yes because you asked and he's wyll. Or because you told him he could kill mindflayers. He'd be like "sick" and done, no questions asked. Just another Tuesday for the blade.
wyll is so transgendered like the little Ye Olde Binder he wears around camp and the way he lives his life according to this fairy tale ideal of gentlemanly masculine heroics....tboy swag off the charts