I can't reply to
@Son Goku Baku 's post for some reason, but I guess as the resident Warcraft Sperg I'll chime in on this fic.
I'm sending you the bill for all the alcohol I need to get through this, though.
First off, yeah, this is absolutely self-gratifying porn for Lily because Anevay is
so tortured, you guys. But she's also
SO STRONG so she can totally handle it because she's so badass and awesome and totally not a self-insert power fantasy.
And yes, Soulbonding is a real thing that WoW added in the latest expansion. It's mostly done between denizens of the Shadowlands (the afterlife in the Warcraft universe), but I guess if two mortals are there they could technically do it. In-universe, though, it's more than just a passive temporary sharing of memories or feelings or whatever this ends up being in the fic. It's pretty much literally having your two souls fuse; whatever one person has ever experienced the other instantly experiences and understands at the deepest level. That whole short conversation of Jaina having to explain herself wouldn't have needed to happen because Anevay would have known Jaina's motives as well as Jaina did. Also, Soulbonds are permanent, even over great distances and time the link still remains, it's not a one-off thing. Again, just, proof that Lily doesn't actually understand Warcraft lore and she just crams in her own headcanon everywhere.
Which is proven again by the idea of "Azerite Poisoning". Azerite is pretty much literally the blood of the planet and Titan, Azeroth. It's basically incredibly potent physical magic that can be harnessed in a wide variety of ways, from making gunpowder and other chemicals massively more explosive, empowering a spellcaster's spells to be much more effective, to even completely neutralizing an incredibly toxic poison that would cause horribly painful death into a slightly fruity drink. So, the idea that someone can be "poisoned" by this is just... incredibly laughable. But hey, gotta add more
wangst and torture/abuse somehow.
Does Lily know there are more ways to paint someone as an abuser or even just a Villain than just having them rape someone else? Like, I get that rape is a truly awful, despicable thing, but the way she has such a fascination with it and adds it, ultimately, into everything she writes is truly alarming. And it's an incredibly easy and convenient way for her to paint any character she hates unreasonably into more reasonable hate. Thrall and Baine apparently personally raped Anevay which is just... Literally the only way I can convey how wrong that is is by reminding that this is Lily's incredibly warped view of characters, and she probably views this as completely in-character and something they would probably do in-game.
Lily also sneaks in some more dull religious shit apparently. "Light=Christianity. Christianity=Bad. Therefore Light=Bad."
Yeah, that's just straight up sex. You can hmm and haa all you want, Lily, but when you explicitly state that a character has their hands between a woman's legs... that's sex. It's clear to all what is happening.
And christ, again with the implied incest that Lily is
tooooooootally not into. Jaina isn't even blood-related to Anduin, she was just an aunt-like figure in his life. Like yeah, it'd absolutely be weird for him to have those kinds of thoughts/feelings about Jaina. But Lily brings it up out of nowhere for seemingly no reason other than, well, we know that she gets off on incest and she
has to add an allusion to it in everything she writes. Oh and for good measure we have a child being into a much, much, much older woman, check that off the Lily Orchard Fanfic Bingo Card™
Fuck, and now she has to pull the same shit with Anevay being a formative presence in Jaina's childhood? Lily,
fucking stop. This shit is so fucking skeevy like what the actual fuuuuuuck.
Anyway, last bit: Silysa is the Alliance Champion, a Night Elf Warrior. If I recall correctly, she doesn't have nearly the same amount of victories or accolades that Anevay does. In fact, I'm pretty sure some of Silysa's "achievements" were actually Anevay's that she let Silysa take the credit for, for one reason or another. So she's literally only Anevay's contemporary in title alone, and isn't actually anywhere near as strong or accomplished as Anevay.
Which, if you'll allow me to sperg one last time in this post, irks the fuck out of me. There is obviously a good deal of disconnect between canon and gameplay as you can't have literal millions of characters running around all being champions of the Alliance/Horde. They'd far outnumber the actual population of each race if they did. The way they solve this in the official lore is that they allude to the
numerous champions/heroes every so often. Pretty much every big bad since WoW started has been, in-canon, dealt with by unnamed, unnumbered heroes (the exception being Onyxia, a Black Dragon from Vanilla WoW that was retconned to have been killed by Varian for character development stuff).
This allows the player, any player, to feel involved with the developing story.
But Lily instead has decided that an MMO's story is more like a Single Player game. Her character is the only Champion of the Horde, only one is ever allowed to exist, or two when she wants to make a new character. And so Anevay has faced literally everything on her own. Because she's so strong and badass that she doesn't need anyone else and other characters, even if just alluding to them briefly, would muddle the story and take away from the fact that Anevay is the bestest, strongest, most abused, most traumatized being to ever exist.
God, stewing in this shit is draining.
