As much as people decry how much of a “liar” Kaeya is after his Story Quest…not only did he apologize for roping them into his plans like that, but looking back at the end of the Mondstadt Archon Quest (which most players likely encountered after playing his Story Quest thanks to the way the AR system is structured, and is still one of the earliest quests available to the player in-game) his transparency with them started way earlier than I’d originally remembered.
You know, he could’ve easily kept silent from the Traveler about how members of the Abyss Order slipped into Mondstadt, and that he stayed behind in the city and mingled with them briefly to get intel. Cause think about it: there’s nothing in it for him telling the Traveler and Paimon, considering he didn’t know their answers were connected to the Abyss Order and they spend a lot of their interactions with him afterwards being sarcastic and distrusting of him (and after his Story Quest, they were pretty upset about his deception). And he was already under scrutiny from his colleagues, particularly Amber, for not being present during cleanup outside the gates (even though he had the right idea that sending everyone out at once could compromise safety within the city). He could’ve tried making his case to the knights to save face/clear his name, but no, he told the two people he had apologized to for being dishonest towards not too long ago, and when Amber showed up, he slipped away without taking credit, and all he got for that was being deemed even more lazy and shady by colleagues who already had that view of him in the first place. And it was on top of the reveal that he’d stayed behind to protect the city because everyone else leaving would mean no one else could do it (on top of making sure Noelle was safe, too), and that all showed so much more integrity and honesty than making big speeches about how you’ll do something but then never having to show up for it.
A lot of focus got placed on the whole “omg he can speak Abyssal language!” or “He mingled with the Abyss! Sus!” and not the fact that he came clean to the Traveler about doing something this dangerous and suspicious-looking, and didn’t even take credit for it with his colleagues despite how bad he knew he’d look for it. And thanks to him, we had a damn good lead on the Abyss Order and their new leader (which turned out to be the Traveler’s sibling).
Kaeya never got “retconned” into a nicer character or was changed out of nowhere as I’ve seen some people say about him. His sense of accountability and unconditional care for the Traveler has been there since the Prologue.
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