Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
Yeah that's been a lot of my problem with Venat, the suffering she inflicts is very uneven and petty and doesn't really seem to be about character building most of it is just people leading intentionally short painful lives and the people that care about them being broken by the grief. the game kept pushing that love angle but Venat is so abusive with it, and she doesn't seem to actually care for anyone....she's just horrible
The insistence on the "love" angle was another part of what made Venat's writing so insecure, and the sense that deep down, it knew that what it was trying was shaky and didn't work. And the hard overcompensation on it - especially because the technique of "NPC loves the WoL = popular NPC" has usually been very effective up until this point - led to a lot of us making connections towards the absolute cliches of abuse rhetoric and victim-blaming. Which I'm sure never occurred to the writers, but here we are.

I also find it odd that the culture that most seem to meet this ideology is the Garleans and the game has spent most of it time demonising there culture and the brutality there suffering caused them to turn to.
The single member of present day humanity who embodies Venat's ideology and methods most is unironically Ilberd Feare.