wyll baldursgate ravengard is like. the writers very obviously half-assed it, but it would've taken SO little effort to just go with:
"this guy shed his previous identity in a traumatic burst of violence at the tender age of 17 to save his city, and in the process has welded his entire sense of self to the Heroic Ideals™️ he grew up with. he is charismatic and superficially whimsical, but underneath it, he's in a objectively very bleak situation of having no family or home, 0 prospects aside from dying young in a monster fight and/or getting another offer he can't refuse from mizora, and getting his soul put into a torment nexus forever. he's kind of accepted this bc he places no value on his life outside of Doing Good Deeds™️ . he has built an impenetrable 18 charisma facade around himself to hide any fear or anger or negative feelings. but, he stays silly :)"
and then quite obviously, you can either encourage wyll to remain on his heroic martyrdom complex (similar to how you can encourage gale to literally explode) or you can get wyll to remember that he is also a person that deserves to live and occasionally do things for his own benefit (the opposite of astarion, perhaps). and this would be extremely sweet, and is exactly what the voice actor was trying to infuse into the performance! it just. never got satisfyingly brought together. AASHJDGSHH. gnashing my teeth eternally.
