On Themis [6.4 SPOILER]

[Brinne]

Hythlo

Occasionally, when I see people sort of frame Hythlodaeus as some moral figure who would clearly disapprove or be outraged with Emet-Selch's actions as an Ascian, my reaction is basically "...what?" Because no. There's absolutely no way. Hythlodaeus is not malicious by any means, and all things being equal will generally do the benevolent thing, as he has no interest in hurting anyone excessively or pointlessly, but he makes crystal clear what he truly cares about and what he doesn't, and his pleasant polite quality is just as much as him also having no energy or interest in meaningfully engaging with anyone who isn't Azem or Emet-Selch beyond that "polite" surface level. He's an incredibly interesting character to me, and the dynamic of, once again, Hades perhaps being the figure in the friendship trio with the most pronounced morals and sense of empathy, and this in fact being the very thing that basically drove him to sink as low as he did, makes all of them all the more interesting and tragic.

In a way, I agree with Yoshi-P's assessment that Hythlo is in fact the "scariest" Ancient, though I entirely disagree with his reasoning behind it, but that comes down to finding the reasons Yoshi-P presumed the audience would find the Ancients "scary" as a whole generally laughable.

His VA ended up a bit of a hilarious fit for the original Themis, but I'll be damned if that "My duty! No! Not yet!" line in SoS still doesn't pull at the heartstrings.

The English voice casting obviously was done out of not knowing how Elidibus's true character would eventually manifest, but also, I will instantly piledrive anyone who says a word against Matt Stokoe and I can't tell you how immeasurably overjoyed I was that they managed to get him back in this patch. If Themis ever makes another return, if Stokoe doesn't come with him for voiced scenes, rioting from me will ensue.