I AM MY SCARS!
May. 4th, 2023 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragoness_e2019-12-16:
For me, it was a powerful scene about consent, and doing things to people "for their own good", and the appropriate response to people who condescendingly decide that consent doesn't matter if they "know better". Illidan chose every step of his path, and became what he is by his choices and suffering and descent into evil and recovery. His running theme through the expansion (once he's actually back and not dead from being an old raid boss) is that there is no relying on divinely-appointed fate or special destiny to defeat evil, just us working together to defeat the powers of evil.
"Our destiny was never in fate's hands".
Also, if you're not familiar with the game context, the light being that was trying to remake Illidan was the Prime Naaru Xe'ra, the next best thing to an archangel in the Warcraft universe (and worshipped as the closest thing to gods the draenei have).
For me, it was a powerful scene about consent, and doing things to people "for their own good", and the appropriate response to people who condescendingly decide that consent doesn't matter if they "know better". Illidan chose every step of his path, and became what he is by his choices and suffering and descent into evil and recovery. His running theme through the expansion (once he's actually back and not dead from being an old raid boss) is that there is no relying on divinely-appointed fate or special destiny to defeat evil, just us working together to defeat the powers of evil.
"Our destiny was never in fate's hands".
Also, if you're not familiar with the game context, the light being that was trying to remake Illidan was the Prime Naaru Xe'ra, the next best thing to an archangel in the Warcraft universe (and worshipped as the closest thing to gods the draenei have).
