#violence as inheritance. fate vs freedom. the ways in which we take our parents with us. & wulbren/barcus could extend this politically

[serenfire]

finished the bg3 ironhand gnome plotline today and was wondering about the pulse of the fandom so i checked and

turns out almost everyone who played this game is a coward!! doesn’t see that bg3’s commentary on violence can be about resistance by any means necessary to the point that you turn the knife on every single one of the people you once called friend

#[slaps car] this baby can fit so much dialectics about direct action in it! #really makes you think how much of wulbren’s motivation is the ironhand vs gondian religious affiliations & history of violence or #an absolute last tactic to stop gortash whatever the cost. which only tracks if #wulbren was gearing up to kill himself in moonrise towers so the absolute wouldn’t get his runepowder design. #like that’s the line between viewing his pov as an underdog tyrant or going scorched earth as a result of a lifetime of desperation. #which way did he get radicalized? in trying to kill the gondians is he aligning with the absolute and bhaal on purpose or despite it all? #and (i say this only knowing about bg1 and not the details of the bg3 durge playthrough) the bhaalspawn is bg’s commentary on #violence as inheritance. fate vs freedom. the ways in which we take our parents with us. & wulbren/barcus could extend this politically #think about it. think about it! #barcus wroot #wulbren bongle #bg3