Mila

[surly king]

I tried making this thread yesterday but apparently it got removed due to spoilers? So here I am writing again with zero spoilers.
For anyone who got to experience this character in a certain segment right around the middle of the game: What do you think?
In some 4D chess big brain move, is it actually some kind of possessed demon/spirit? Why does this character act the way they do?

I can´t be the only one finding this particular inclusion to be some of the worst writing decisions made in history, completely clashing with everything around it and basically ruining the moment.

I am talking about the child character that follows you for parts of the Weisshaupt raid segment. Completely insane to me how unbothered this character seems to be in relation to what´s happening around us, people getting eviscerated left and right by ungodly dark spawn. Even your companions seem to be more worried and scared 😂

[DaisyRay]

Originally posted by surly king:

I tried making this thread yesterday but apparently it got removed due to spoilers? So here I am writing again with zero spoilers.
For anyone who got to experience this character in a certain segment right around the middle of the game: What do you think?
In some 4D chess big brain move, is it actually some kind of possessed demon/spirit? Why does this character act the way they do?

I can´t be the only one finding this particular inclusion to be some of the worst writing decisions made in history, completely clashing with everything around it and basically ruining the moment.

I am talking about the child character that follows you for parts of the Weisshaupt raid segment. Completely insane to me how unbothered this character seems to be in relation to what´s happening around us, people getting eviscerated left and right by ungodly dark spawn. Even your companions seem to be more worried and scared 😂

Lol I didn't think that about her, but I did think it about a few other characters. So it makes sense some people saw it with other characters.

One of the characters helping Neve gave me weird vibes the whole game, then they ended up just being a normal, harmless person. I was so baffled by it.

[Ashtrails]

No, I think the game just wanted to become Stranger Things there for a hot minute.

Like... it's a trope. I found it horribly misplaced as well, but you can clearly see what the intention there was, as far as i'm concerned.
I just filed that under 'yeah, that was dumb', and moved on : D

[Left-Hand Path]

Originally posted by surly king:

I tried making this thread yesterday but apparently it got removed due to spoilers? So here I am writing again with zero spoilers.
For anyone who got to experience this character in a certain segment right around the middle of the game: What do you think?
In some 4D chess big brain move, is it actually some kind of possessed demon/spirit? Why does this character act the way they do?

I can´t be the only one finding this particular inclusion to be some of the worst writing decisions made in history, completely clashing with everything around it and basically ruining the moment.

I am talking about the child character that follows you for parts of the Weisshaupt raid segment. Completely insane to me how unbothered this character seems to be in relation to what´s happening around us, people getting eviscerated left and right by ungodly dark spawn. Even your companions seem to be more worried and scared 😂

No, you aren´t.
Especially considering that alot or people she knew and grew up with are dead or got killed in front of her eyes and she treats it like some form of adventure, even has the time to be sassy about it

[surly king]

Originally posted by Ashtrails:

No, I think the game just wanted to become Stranger Things there for a hot minute.

Like... it's a trope. I found it horribly misplaced as well, but you can clearly see what the intention there was, as far as i'm concerned.
I just filed that under 'yeah, that was dumb', and moved on : D

What trope? I thought the intention was to portray a strong and independent child that doesn´t afraid of anything.
To me the reverse would have been an easy homerun, use a child character to show fear and elicit sympathy in the player, really hitting home how terrifying the darkspawn actually are. Instead we get this odd thing and I´m like huh???

Originally posted by DaisyRay:

Lol I didn't think that about her, but I did think it about a few other characters. So it makes sense some people saw it with other characters.
One of the characters helping Neve gave me weird vibes the whole game, then they ended up just being a normal, harmless person. I was so baffled by it.

I meant the comment about her being possessed as a joke, though it would be funny and definitely change my opinion on the matter if it could somehow be confirmed 😂

[surly king]

Originally posted by DJ Geräteschuppen(Ricochet):

No, you aren´t.
Especially considering that alot or people she knew and grew up with are dead or got killed in front of her eyes and she treats it like some form of adventure, even has the time to be sassy about it

Good. I´ve been following the discussions here for a bit and never saw it brought up, so it really made me wonder when I got to that part in game 😂

[Ashtrails]

Originally posted by surly king:

What trope? I thought the intention was to portray a strong and independent child that doesn´t afraid of anything.
To me the reverse would have been an easy homerun, use a child character to show fear and elicit sympathy in the player, really hitting home how terrifying the darkspawn actually are. Instead we get this odd thing and I´m like huh???

Well, that's kinda the trope.
Think Stranger Things, the Goonies, Monster Squad, Over the Garden Wall etc.
It's less about 'strong independent', but fear being vastly outmatched by a sense of adventure and lack of grasping the actual scope of danger, to put it simply.

It's a whole genre of cool stories, but in this case it's a tonal clash since Veilguard wasn't, up to this point, this kind of story.
But you can clearly see the inspiration for Mila.

And don't get me wrong, it's a very, very poor attempt, as far as I'm concerned.

Her being a spirit of Compassion staying with the Blacksmith since he has lost everyone else and that explaining why she's so fearless in face of danger and guiding / helping you would be a vastly superior story beat : )

[Quacksalber]

I didn't think about it in such detail, but I was somewhat disconcerted by a kid being there. I'm even somewhat disconcerted by Taash who appears to be quite young.