okay i know i literally just said idc about this but the two cents are getting real sweaty in my hands. what the fuck is up with the bolaire discourse that keeps floating past my dash.
yes, he murders people, no he doesn't need to. yes, it's possible for him to find willing hosts he would wear for a time and then let go. no, he doesn't do that. yes, this is an extremely morally questionable choice he's making. yes, it makes him a very unreliable narrator.
guys. i thought this was why we liked him. hello?? i genuinely don't understand the urge to say "he didn't do anything wrong!!" because well, he did. he's actively doing it. i ALSO don't understand the callout posts saying "this thing he's doing is morally bad. this means i don't like him as a character." like are those not completely seperate issues.
i genuinely don't think taliesin is playing him with the mentality that everything he's doing is morally correct [even if he is, intention of the player is also a separate issue, and the character's role within the story remains the same]. that's what makes him so interesting! instead of arguing that he's a good person (undefinable attribute + he's not even a person), why don't we instead think about how he's justifying his own actions to himself. is that not way more interesting?? to consider why he kills the way he does? to consider the way he was, ultimately, created to be a character in a play, and has probably never quite shaken the habit of seeing everyone (except a select few) as inconsequential and unimportant? to think about how hal now has to grapple with this realization, trying to maintain basic moral decency while circumstances force him even closer to his utterly amoral murderous best friend? is that not more interesting? is that not what we're all in it for?? sometimes characters do bad things. is that not what makes it fun?????