Things you might not have noticed in Wriothesley's Character Teaser: A VERY Detailed Breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- GOD, THAT CHARACTER TRAILER WAS MY FAVORITE!!! No one does it like him (teaser anecdote-wise, at least). So, you know me...I couldn't stop myself from spewing all my thoughts on it.
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P. S. Sorry for the weird audio. I rushed the recording of this one. Also, I use the Korean dub exclusively and his voice in Korean is genuinely lovely, I swear. Please listen to it! I simply used the English for this video so I wouldn't need to put in subtitles.
The music used here is from Genshin Impact's OST (the one played at Poisson, I don't know the title yet)
Translations of Wriothesley's propriety line:
CN: x.com/inconsistentKT/status/1...
KR: x.com/_SoRae/status/171202096...
Time stamps
0:00 Intro
1:31 Scene 1
3:33 Scene 2
5:19 Scene 3
7:49 Scene 4
9:00 Scene 5
11:15 Scene 6
13:41 Scene 7
14:58 End
It's refreshing to hear and talk about characters in a non-sexual sense and see for what they really are in terms of their backstory, upbringing, perspective of the world around them, what they do and what their job means to them, their hobbies, personality etc. Sure cool designs and playstyle, but I like to get into the character analysis and what made them be the character they are today. I am 100 % sure non of these characters are free to date even. I love seeing their individuality and how they fight for their beliefs/ use their occupation into the world of Tevyat. Wriothesley is someone who may have not had a supportive system growing up and its HARD to learn manners, self discipline, gain wisdom in such harsh environments he grew up in. Just because he didn't grow up with that kind of support, he has that justice to try to help other kids (if he's really in charge of welfare for kids when their parents/guardians are arrested). I feel like it takes serious amounts of strength to not give into misery and spread that to others and he does the opposite. He's strict and harsh, but believes in the ideology that every children deserves a loving, safe home and upbringing.
If you want to know a little more about the criminal, you can talk to the little girl near Northland Bank.
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I don't like how Hoyoverse antagonized Wriothesley in the AQ just to raise up the playerbase's favorability towards House of the Hearth kids.
Even though Fatui are clearly sketchy and never up to any good. Lyney casually talks about stealing the Gnosis and Traveller was like "ok".
Meanwhile, Wriothesley is literally saying stuff as is, just with a scary demeanor and tone, is treated as a villain.
I feel that in retrospect, anyone who actually reflects on the situation can see that Wriothesely was 100% in the right, was just a little harsh about it (which, in fairness, likely comes from the fact that this was his like 90th time dealing with something like this and every man's got a breaking point.)
Really, not even the narrative treats him as a villain after the initial scare. If we just used our heads for a second, we could probably tell neither him nor Sigewinne were a threat, but because we were coming into the Archon Quest expecting a villain, it was easier for us to blend into the same perspective the House Of The Hearth kids had. Really, it was kinda humbling for the quest to basically end up like: "Did you really think the people in charge of dealing with a PRISON are gullible idiots who'll fall for Tom and Jerry level acting?"
Nice video! I'm very excited for his quest, I want to see him outside of Meropide even if it's for a little while. I'm sure he would appreaciate a little bit of fresh air (even tho it seems his job is also part of his sentence).
i recommend a popping filter for your mic or simply moving away a few centimeter :)
Contrast Wriothesley with Kujou Sara.
When she is alerted to prisoner abuse under her watch she is so disgusted by the behaviour of the guard and so confident in the righteousness of her policing agents, that she immediately releases the prisoner and turns a blind eye to a prison break operation, figuring that there shouldn't even be the very slightest hint of impropriety in dealings of prisoners and that against that notion the loss of the prisoner (temporarily) and ignoring the prison break is a small price to pay. As it were these crimes are "fruit of the poisonous vine" of prisoner abuse, or could be argued as such. [Of course the crime in question is one where the convict is no threat to the public and it would have been a tougher call if he had been.]
She sure as hell wouldn't be threatening prisoners with killing their brother or sister, nor sending them into deadly situations just to save herself the hassle of investigating.
Sara also was loyal to an oppressive regime that hurt many other people, just because she stopped one very obvious bad behavior, let’s not act like she’s some saint that was so good and righteous.
As far as I can see Fontaine is known for "crimes" that are irrational, which by definition makes them oppressive. I don't see Wriothesley second guessing why people were sentenced. Do you? Also we know not everyone with a Vision was arrested. Presumably they were only arresting trouble makers like Itto. Makes sense to me. It's like saying people with a criminal record can't carry an assault rifle. And for your information the game shows people who had Visions removed and felt their lives improved as a result too, as well as those it didn't effect and those who got worse.
But let's stick to comparing them as prison wardens shall we?
Sara pretty much is a saint. And there's every reason to believe she'd react the same to any signs of abuse she came across. After all the whole plot revolves around Sara discovering abuse by her own foster father and reporting him to the Shogun even though it might cost him his life, and would cost her clan great prestige - two things Sara personally valued immensely.
Arguably she's too strictly righteous in genera and needs to tone it down a bit, but as a prison warden having strict standards is a good thing.
She's light years from torturing prisoners by threatening to kill their siblings. @@CaptainPikeachu
I guess I see Wriothesley negatively because of the weird way he handles the Fatui kids in the Archon quest. Basically he has a duty of care for his inmates and he threatens them with death and puts them through life threatening situations which are or ought to be illegal and immoral, even if they are Fatui. He lets Freminet go out into toxic waters without knowing the danger. He kidnaps Lynette, poisons her (has Seguewinne do it which is also reprehensible to twist a Melusine into doing his dirty work) and threatens Lyney with killing both of them. All this within a prison system he's in charge of. If he wanted information he could simply have asked them. If he wanted to meet Arlecchino he could simply have asked them. It's especially unforgivable as he then spills all his secrets to Traveler knowing Traveler will tell the Fatui kids anyway.
So what was all that for?
The closest to an explanation is when he says he cunningly decided to have Freminet risk his life and generally have the Fatui investigate stuff he wanted the answer to, on his behalf and without risking his own people's lives. But in the end he has to ask Chlorinde to go into danger anyway so not only is it a fail on practical grounds but, again, he deliberately endangers the lives of people under his duty of care.
It all seems pointlessly evil as if he just enjoys screwing with people.
Not to mention we then find out he and Neuvillette are in each others back pockets contra what Neuvillette said about the fortress being an independent place where they would have to sneak the Traveler in. Clearly Neuvillette could simply have said "we're sending in an investigator to find out what happened to Childe" and got full co-operation from Wriosthesley. In fact Neuvillette almost certainly did tell Wriothesley from the very start, making the whole quest a sort of joke or test of Traveler.
Also if Wriosthesley wanted to avoid having the Fatui kids in the fortress he could just have kicked them out or secured them wherever he put the other agents. Or if he doesn't know what happened to the other Fatui agents then that's a whole other topic he really should be investigating.
Unsurprisingly Lyney refuses to co-operate with Wriothesley's terrorism tactics even for something so minor as passing a message along to his boss. It's all counter productive. Arlecchino is apparently happy to talk in person to people in the Fontaine government. Why deliberately antagonize Lyney?
Back in the day there was a meme about Reckless Pallad attacking Sucrose. Feels about the same with Wriothesley and Lynette.
Lynette was never poisoned, she was sedated. And he didn't twist Sigewinne into doing anything for him, she chose to do that of her own accord. (She works at a prison, remember? She deals with troublesome people a lot of the time.) The Fatui barged into his Fortress and expected they could bend the rules to suit their whims and were actively breaking rules, of course, he was going to reply harshly to that.
As for Freminet, I think he only sealed the entrance when he realized something was up with the water, and sending Clorinide to go save him isn't 'recklessly endangering lives', she's basically an officer of the law, it's her job, and she's probably more physically capable then he is, of course, he'd ask her to handle a sensitive mission.
And maybe he implied he was threatening their lives to Lyney, but that was likely because of how done he was with the Fatui constantly barging into his prison system and trying to discover confidential information. Believe me, I disliked his handling of the situation, but in retrospect, it's very much a 'you play with fire, you get burned.'
And he really doesn't have Neuvillette in his pocket, because while they have a personal relationship, the Court Of Fontaine has no legal authority over the Fortress. That's why the Traveler was sent under the guise of a prisoner because by the law, the Court fundamentally could not conduct an investigation into the Fortress. He likely did know what was up, because it doesn't take a genius to figure it out, hence why he was content with just letting the Fatui and Traveler be until they started to actively circumvent Fortress confidentiality and security(and were at risk of endangering themselves due to tampering with matters regarding the Primordial Sea.)
So, really, as kinda messed up as it was, his tactics do not count as terrorism in the slightest. (And in retrospect, are kinda understandable).
Sorry, but what rules did the Fatui kids break in your opinion?
It's a bit more than a sedative if it renders someone unconscious quick enough to drop them immediately. That's a poison. It's inherently not safe to shut down the human body that way. Legally, it's certainly a poison. There was no medical necessity for it and none offered. it was used as a weapon and completely unnecessarily. Are you suggesting Lynette was in the process of attacking Sigewinne?
Obviously Wriothesley knew about the primordial water already. He's found the big seal after all. But you raise a good point about sealing the pipes to keep Freminet outside. That was potentially deadly. What if Freminet had spotted the danger and headed back only to find he had no way to get back in? What if he encountered some problem and had to return sooner than Wriotheslety calculated? He'd be dead. And no, the pipe wasn't sealed shut on the basis of what Freminet found obviously since nobody knew what he found until he was recovered. Note that Wriothesley isn't especially interested in what Freminet found as he already knows.
"you play with fire, you get burned"
And how would you have felt about Lyney's character if Lyney had kidnapped Sigewinne and threatened to kill her?
@@radiantbunny
Terrorism tactics? How do you terrorize people who deliberately broke into your place and started to mess around? I get folks love those Fatui kids because they’re so cute and all, but let’s be real here, they went into the fortress with the clear intention of starting up shit and messing about and sneaking around. Wriothesley doesn’t actually owe them anything other than not actually letting them die, which he didn’t.
Sigh, another House of Hearth apologist.
The Fatui didn't break in. And whether they had or not Wriothesley could have ejected them if he'd had an issue with what they were doing. But as far as I can see everything they wanted to do fits within the rather loose set of rules he has for the fortress. In particular "starting up shit" isn't against the rules. "messing about" isn't against the rules and "sneaking around" is practically recommended. At one point he openly suggests Traveler and Paimon could set up some sort of protection racket to make coupons. His whole deal is some weird Libertarian 'anything goes" or "let the invisible hand of the free market decide" concept. Prisoners don't have to work, they don't appear to have to obey guards, avoid fighting, or practically anything. So I repeat: what rule was broken by the Fatui? Certainly Wriothesley himself doesn't claim they or the Traveler, broke any rules.
And yes, Wriothesley owes all the inmates something, by modern day standards (which is usually the standard discussed on this channel fyi) and also by his own standards as revealed in game. Death, risk of death or threats of death being the top ones, but more broadly security, medical attention and a lack of physical abuse would be obvious examples.
@@CaptainPikeachu