- Sep 12, 2016
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Not to jump on the dogpile of Cyanna's storyline and seem too negative, but I'm of a very similar mind at the moment. It hasn't reached the point of Lily's sidequest (where I've just accepted that it clearly is being written for someone with different tastes), because I am still waiting to see where Cyanna's story goes and things still have ~plenty~ of time to improve.I agree completely with your take, thats the weakest storyline for me, the fact that they are the same age and saved her life once is like... why? I want a disgusting dude to do the corrupting, not a dude that I'd believe could take her with standard ways like... inviting her to a date lol
Yet looking at it now, I feel like it leans a little too far into the "what could have been" romantic tension and remorse between them. I have no doubt that it is written this way intentionally, of him hiding his true nature and blatantly trying to manipulate her, but he almost seems like a completely different character (at least so far) with Cyanna compared to how we see him during the first monster hunt with Alys, even before he duels her and we get to see his full potential for brutality.
But unlike with the other antagonists, we haven't been given much of a chance to experience his private thoughts about what he is doing. Those moments with Jazon where he completely drops the act and makes it clear how little he thinks of Haylen as a person help build up the anticipation of when she will eventually get see the true version of him. Meanwhile, with Brutus, it seems safe to assume that it will progress in a similar direction of him becoming more aggressive and rough with Cyanna, but the pacing and tone of it feels so much more... languid in a way that doesn't play into the whole appeal of his character.