its 100% harmless to pretend you’re an assassin in a fictional world in a video game. Like, dont get me wrong, lucien is definitely a likeable charming character, and its obvious on some level that if youre an assassin, youre probably at least morally dubious, and i guess thats the charm. who would be so happy about gruesomely murdering someone like this? not like literally everyone in dark brotherhood relishes in death and mutilation, like the dude bragging about murdering an entire birthday party full of kids, or yknow, all the talk about the beauty of bloodshed and gore. fucking loser traumatized by seeing his mother be gruesomely decapitated, look how over the top and gross and crazy and depraved he is. but matthiew bellamont is unambiguously presented as a repulsive, creepy, unjustified freak, for wanting revenge for what happened to him. youd think there would at least be some moral ambiguity here. the fact that the DB are the good guys here, that lucien is the good guy here, wronged by the unfair revenge of some dude who dared to be fucked up by such an experience, is just.
lucien lachance gruesomely murdered a kid’s mother in front of him, and said kid grew up to hate him and conspire against him. the traitor thing in the oblivion DB questline is just absurd to me to be honest, having given it some thought.
