I mean, everybody’s experience so far with Archontes are that we do ending up liking them. It’s always possible that Baal will have her own arc to redeem herself and everything becomes good and dandy.
I do not think that at the end of the game all the archontes will be Traveler’s enemies, so a lot of ppl is just like “yeah, Baal is a crazy tyranic asshole, but she’s probably the only one who can fix what she did and eventually is possible that she will”.
I’m not like, against her if she decides to change.
Do I think that her castle is a joke? Kind of, she build that fancy huge ass castle while her ppl is starving and suffering, like fuck that.
It’s gorgeous piece of cultural respect towards japonese culture, for sure, but noneless!
I do think she’s beautiful and I wouldn’t my pull for her even if I don’t agree with what she’s doing right now. What is going to stop me from pulling from her is because I wanna know what else is going in 2.2, if a character like Hu tao comes back in 2.2 or we get someone that I will like more, it’s possible that I will skip her banner. Personally, I don’t have Venti either. The only Archonte I have is Zhongli, so it would be fun having another one, I guess.
But what is happening in the story is something in proggress. Like, I’m done with the first act yet, cuz I’m searching for stuff to updating the sakura three and the archonte’s statue, so I’m kinda behind what’s happening….
I don’t believe, however, that Baal will be a tyrant until the end of Inazuma’s arc, I don’t think she’s there to become our enemy forever and I don’t think Mihoyo would just half hearted redeem her. If she’s going to redeem herself, they will make her do it right, I have faith on that.
And I guess you could argue that’s the same about the Fatui Harbingers that’s gonna probably become playable characters in the future, not everybody has an issue with maniac evil characters, even more in a game where half of it is the combat mechanics xD