One of Genshins most problematic ships (assuming you know the lore)
I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this lol but I'm talking about Wriothesley and Neuvillette.
Before I get into this, a quick disclaimer: I am not trying to police anyone’s fandom experience or force people to stop shipping them. If someone ships this completely blind to the lore and doesn't know about the age/problematic stuff I'm going to mention, that's one thing. But if people know the full canon timeline and still choose to romanticize this dynamic? Yeah, I'm going to rant about how gross and messed up it is.
This post is mainly about a few people I've interacted with who actively ship wriolette due to it's problematic nature knowing and actively romanticizing the full lore.
When you actually look at the canon lore and the timeline of their relationship, it goes from "fictional romance" to incredibly uncomfortable very quickly:
1. The Timeline and Age Gap are Concerning
We know that Wriothesley was sent to the Fortress of Meropide as a teenager after committing his crime. While his exact age isn't spelled out in bold letters, Sigewinne’s letters to Neuvillette heavily imply he was anywhere between 13 to 17 years old when he first came to the Chief Justice's attention (If wrio was an adult when first meeting neuvilette instead of there being a chance he could be as young as 13 years old, i wouldn't have bothered making this post).
Meanwhile, Neuvillette is an immortal being who has been around for at least 500 years. Shipping a literal ancient entity with someone who was a minor/teenager when they first met is wild (I hate it when any romance novel or anything does this, probably the worst thing ever).
2. "But Wriothesley is in his 40s now!"
This is the main defense shippers use (if you don't know the lore then thats completely fine, I'm talking about some people I met who actively like this ship due to it's problematic nature), but it doesn't fix the foundation of their dynamic. If shippers want to view their bond as a romantic progression that started back then, you are inherently implying a grooming dynamic.
Even if you claim they "waited until he was an adult," Neuvillette held massive institutional power over a vulnerable, incarcerated teenager. No matter how you slice it, the power imbalance from their initial meeting completely ruins any romantic framing.
3. The Family Dynamic Makes Way More Sense (this is after viewing their lore and doing a bunch of story/world quests)
If you actually look at how they interact with Sigewinne, a romantic dynamic falls completely flat:
Neuvillette clearly views Sigewinne as his daughter.
Sigewinne and Wriothesley have a distinct sibling-coded dynamic based on their mutual care for each other and how they run the Fortress.
If Sigewinne is the daughter and Wriothesley is like a brother to her, then Neuvillette and Wriothesley being together makes the family tree bizarre. Honestly, based on how Neuvillette looked out for him and monitored his growth from youth into adulthood, it makes infinitely more sense to view them as having a father-son or mentor-mentee relationship, not a romantic one.
TL;DR: not knowing of the lore is one thing, but knowing the context and still supporting it is weird (unless you choose to not take it as canon ig even though it's in the game). The power dynamic is terrible, and the canon lore points way more toward a found-family structure than a romance.
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