Untrustworthy Finn?? Maybe at the beginning but definitely not by the end. The elves side has been pretty open, sure they mostly don't like humans but at least you can see where that's coming from.
Well of course, but that doesn't mean that they're in any way honest. In fact, having an extreme hatred towards a group will just make them more inclined to withhold information or outright lie.
Meiri said:
It's mostly the Templar side that is hard to trust here, every one of them seems to have their on agenda and they don't mind lying or hiding information, sure there's probably going to be traitors on both sides but I think templars are far more dangerous.
I'd absolutely say that both sides are equally bad. There is nothing to point towards the elves being in any way genuine, and I am pretty surprised that no one has any alarm bells ringing about the fact that any elf that he seems to come into contact with (
including the literal king) seem to have completely dismissed generations of trauma and hatred just because one ballsy boy shows up at the doorstep and refuses to kill someone (which in fact should be the default outcome regardless because murdering someone is a terrible diplomatic move and the elves should know this).
It just doesn't make sense, hatred doesn't change in a day, or a week, or even a month when it's this deeply rooted and especially given what we know of elves, their society and how long they live.
I've never heard anything more ludicrous in my life! What would be the point? Half the Elven city attending a fake funeral as a conspiracy to fool one insignificant human of no standing whatsoever? The point of that is to send him back to the Templars to tell them an Elven girl they've never heard of is dead? Oh, she was Medb's daughter and now Medb is really pissed... Wait... Medb was already threatening the Templars and demanding they disband. Again, what's the point?
I'm going to clarify my point since you seem to be misunderstanding it, I am not talking about literally every elf on the globe having a hivemind and deep understanding of a large scale conspiracy plot to trigger a conflict.
What I specifically outlined and what the MC is getting at is that there's a third party, not elf nor human, that have connections
within each faction that are manipulating them. My thesis was that Finn is either that connection or a pawn of whatever connection there is within the elves.
This also means that none of the other elves (besides potential complicits to Finn or whoever pulled the strings behind Finn) knowing anything about a faked death.
Personally I thought Fin was pretty trustworthy after she started to spend some time with the MC. Personally I find Elea and Fiona just as trustworthy. Only ones I question about how trustworthy they are is Kari ( the Valkyrie) and Kaija depending on her path. I do think Kaija is trustworthy on the Love path but maybe not as much as the other characters. As I get a sense her loyalty towards the Templars vs is going to waver on the Love path once we get more updates. As I suspect they are going to order her or the MC to do somethings they disagree with entirely.
Elea seems to be trustworthy since she isn't involved. Fiona isn't trustworthy but not for the reason of conflict, but moreso that she has a shady past that might fuck things up hard for the MC, a past that she isn't elaborating on so the MC can't take any defensive measures.
Kari doesn't seem to be trustworthy either, right now MC is a convenient pawn with some sway behind him, especially since MC tends to not trust either templars or elves, meaning that she would likely have an easier time persuading him if she feels the need to.. which she might have already done in regards to going to the elves, which makes her even shadier.
Not gonna get into Kaija, probably my most hated character in any digital or physical media.
You really should consider "chin scriching"
