I really wanna talk about Illidan and his Illidari. (quotes from the Illidan Novel) and the eroticism of it all..wait that’s just me
Akama shook his head. “Their leaders have been told to stand ready to move at a moment’s notice. I think the order will come if the ritual proves to be successful. I don’t think he wants to risk them beyond the temple if it is not.”
“He values them so highly? [Maiev speaking]
“They are the apple of his eye. He spends more time with them than he does planning the defense of his empire. It is puzzling. They represent something very important to him but I cannot work out what it is. I believe it will be revealed within the next few weeks”
Like it’s touching in a twisted sort of way because I do believe he feels..some sort of attachment to them. In his own messed up way.
“As he watched them move en masse under the Betrayer’s gaze, the resemblance between these combatants and their master struck Akama as never before. They were all like Illidan. They might have been his children. They were certainly his creations he had forged them from flesh into something new. The question was why.“
The inherent twisted nature of Illidan creating them to be mirror images of himself and coveting them until he deems it acceptable to risk them.
I think..they are his in a way that no one ever has been and I delight in the subtle and erotic possessive nature of his relationship with them. Notice he so often says “My Illidari.”
Because they are his creations. Forged from flesh into something new entirely as Akama said. They belong to him.
In some ways I think he views them as an extension of himself because..aren’t they? Even the name makes it clear who they serve, who they are modeled after.
When demon hunters look at him do they see their creator? It almost seems like some view him as a God and maybe he is to them. He created them after all. Not originally but he helped mold them into what they are now.
Lord Illidan but what is he lord of now? Not Outland. Just them. It’s listed as his title actually “Lord of The Illidari.” He is their Lord, an inherently possessive title honestly. To lord over something is to own it.
But we already know Illidan loves..possessively. We see that with how he feels about Tyrande. It’s only at the end of Legion that he truly accepts and respects that she’s chosen Malfurion, even going so far as to say she made the right choice. (Even if he wishes it could be different) like that’s some good character development there I think but that’s besides the point for this post.
But prior to that revelation for him, there’s this element of “You are mine” or “You should be mine” rather than “I’m not what you want so I want you to be happy even if it’s not with me.
However his Illidari are his. Something Malfurion and co can’t take from him. (Not that he’d want to)
They belong to him and they don’t look at him like he’s a monster like his brother and Tyrande…and well, everyone else does too.
(He arguably deserves it for some of the shit he’s pulled but I’m going by his POV, the whole ‘they call me the betrayer but in truth I was the one betrayed.’)
On the contrary, he turns them into the same kind of monster he is. “They were all like him.” and now they are monsters with him.
His monsters. Wholly dedicated to him and their mission of defeating the Legion.
Flesh molded into exactly what he needs.
I’m not sure if there’s a point to this post beyond i like to think Illidan has some kind of arguably unhealthy attachment to his demon hunters and I enjoy it.
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