I was actually a little worried writing her with Brynjolf, I was a bit worried Brynjolf's fangirls would lynch me. ;) Fortunately, so far it hasn't happened.
I'm not sure why she gets the hate she does - I wouldn't expect her to be universally liked, but she's not that bad. There are occasional flashes of concern from her towards the player character, and all told, her attitude's not much different from Vilkas during the Companion's questline and certainly streets ahead of Ancano or Mercer, and yet those two have fans. It's a mystery. She's not even the only one to ask you to kill someone innocent with whom you may have prior history - the entire Dark Brotherhood questline and side contracts, half the Daedric quests, they all have you doing similar things, Boethiah's makes you kill a follower. It is odd. I guess it doesn't help in that she's particularly bad at opening up, so it's difficult to warm to her in game. But I've written her before, so I'm used to working out what makes her tick. It does help humanise her. And with Brynjolf, she'd like to trust him completely, but can't quite do it yet - but the big fear isn't what he might do to her, but what might end up happening to him. She doesn't want to lead the Thalmor right to him. Fortunately, once warned of the danger, Bryn's very good at staying one step ahead of trouble.
Ultimately the main thing with her is that she never got to lead the life she wanted - she loved being a Blades field agent, would have liked to stay as one, or running a small to midsized cell directing all the ops. Now she's stuck in charge of it all because she's all that's left and while she'll rise to the challenge, part of her won't ever really be happy doing it. I noticed in game she referred to herself as Acting Grand Master when swearing in Blades, so she'd clearly stand down if anyone with any more seniority turned up. Alas, it's not terribly likely after thirty years.
Thank you for the comment, it made my day! Always good to know readers get what I was aiming for.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Re: The Wolf Queen Awakens 9.4
Date: 2013-10-31 08:42 pm (UTC)I'm not sure why she gets the hate she does - I wouldn't expect her to be universally liked, but she's not that bad. There are occasional flashes of concern from her towards the player character, and all told, her attitude's not much different from Vilkas during the Companion's questline and certainly streets ahead of Ancano or Mercer, and yet those two have fans. It's a mystery. She's not even the only one to ask you to kill someone innocent with whom you may have prior history - the entire Dark Brotherhood questline and side contracts, half the Daedric quests, they all have you doing similar things, Boethiah's makes you kill a follower. It is odd. I guess it doesn't help in that she's particularly bad at opening up, so it's difficult to warm to her in game. But I've written her before, so I'm used to working out what makes her tick. It does help humanise her. And with Brynjolf, she'd like to trust him completely, but can't quite do it yet - but the big fear isn't what he might do to her, but what might end up happening to him. She doesn't want to lead the Thalmor right to him. Fortunately, once warned of the danger, Bryn's very good at staying one step ahead of trouble.
Ultimately the main thing with her is that she never got to lead the life she wanted - she loved being a Blades field agent, would have liked to stay as one, or running a small to midsized cell directing all the ops. Now she's stuck in charge of it all because she's all that's left and while she'll rise to the challenge, part of her won't ever really be happy doing it. I noticed in game she referred to herself as Acting Grand Master when swearing in Blades, so she'd clearly stand down if anyone with any more seniority turned up. Alas, it's not terribly likely after thirty years.
Thank you for the comment, it made my day! Always good to know readers get what I was aiming for.