the erasure of wick's relationship to armas in fandom is honestly troubling.
there's genuinely no amount of "but i headcanon him as gay" or loving wick and tyranny that justifies outright ignoring the woman he has repeatedly called "his love" and whose treatment at the hands of his family is a large part of why he turned on them in the first place (he was in love with someone and they told him the Light said she wasn't right for him so their relationship wouldn't interfere with his mother's business deal and now she's missing. come on.)
it's falling into the trap that MANY mixed race relationships in fantasy and sci-fi fandoms fall into, where despite being canon, they are largely ignored in favor of two white characters, or a canon female love interest is set aside in favor of a slash ship.
the optics of the fandom disregarding wick's real relationship in favor of shipping him with other white characters is pretty stark. armas is possibly rungjani or half-rungjani and she's noted by brennan to be a commoner. not the merchant class or the nobility. so this is a class-crossed and possibly mixed race relationship that's importance is being dismissed
i understand that she has not physically appeared in flashback or the campaign proper and that inhibits the ability to draw art or write fanfiction, but it's a bad pattern that she is treated like nothing at all. y'all have done more with less. it's not that hard to acknowledge her existence. and to immediately presume she is dead is just ignoring how brennan tells stories. he is not going to set up a "find the missing person" side quest for someone who has been dead the whole time, because that's bad DMing.
assuming that wick is gay (because repressed ex religious) in full defiance of how much he obviously loves armas is simply ignoring who wick IS in favor of who you want him to be.
it's fine if you ship wick with other people, but pretending like he doesn't have feelings for armas (or that he's just ~confused) isn't true to his character and honestly just makes it even more obvious that a subset of the fandom simply can't handle the idea that a racialized woman could be the most important person in a white man's life
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