I keep imagining Anub'Arak being rather--well, maybe not as far as AMUSED but somewhat smug about Ner'zhul getting his ass elbowed out of the psychic driver's seat. Arthas all like "NOPE LOL teamwork's for chumpsticks, u been usurp'd" and Ner'zhul is going "omfg you damn kid you did not" and here's Anub'arak over to the side like "ah, poetic justice--that was well worth the wait."
Arthas-the-Lich-King is still an omega platinum tera magnum douche, but unlike Nerz he does seem to give at least something of a fuck about his minions. So while he's still an annoying boss, he's not the most annoying boss ever.
(I love the whole 'who the hell is driving!?' thing you get with LK sometimes. Like, the Acherus DKs get ditched at Light's Hope and you get a "LOL KNIGHTS, NO1CURR" from LK, and then later on when Thassarian is up yelling at Valanar (and failing at insults forever) he shows up like "HEY THASSARIAN HOW YOU BEEN HOW'S DARION YEAH THAT'S GREAT okay now you get your ass back to ICC right now k thx" like nothing even happened, and Thassarian's going "what in the orange plaid hell are you on!?" And there's the "I was once a shaman" in Wyrmskull, versus the "humanity's most wayward son" to Tirion. Maybe Nerz takes over the driver's seat while Arthas is napping or thinking about nekkid elves. I dunno. it's intriguing! One of a bunch of things that didn't get explored much and really needed to be. See also: why the hell didn't Varian flip the hell out at the plagued grain being shipped to Farshire? If we're to assume that the novel is accurate and Varian and Arthas had this epic level princely bro-mance (I like writing this, even though parts of the novel are super dumb), then that grain thing was a straight-up "HEY VARIAN HEY JAINA WHAT DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF LOLOLOL I WOULDA GOT YOU GUYS A POSTCARD FROM STRAT TOO BUT THEY WERE ALL STILL ON FIRE HAHA." It's a direct callback to Arthas's own fall from grace, and in my view a really trolltastic dig at the two of them. AU!Varian (who thinks he's partly to blame for Arthas's batshittery because dammit wasn't he Arthas's friend shouldn't he have noticed something wrong BLUH) reacted to this in a rather capslock-tacular way. At length. And considerable volume!
These are unnecessarily verbose and probably really tinhatted parentheses!)
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Date: 2012-07-12 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 11:07 pm (UTC)I keep imagining Anub'Arak being rather--well, maybe not as far as AMUSED but somewhat smug about Ner'zhul getting his ass elbowed out of the psychic driver's seat. Arthas all like "NOPE LOL teamwork's for chumpsticks, u been usurp'd" and Ner'zhul is going "omfg you damn kid you did not" and here's Anub'arak over to the side like "ah, poetic justice--that was well worth the wait."
Arthas-the-Lich-King is still an omega platinum tera magnum douche, but unlike Nerz he does seem to give at least something of a fuck about his minions. So while he's still an annoying boss, he's not the most annoying boss ever.
(I love the whole 'who the hell is driving!?' thing you get with LK sometimes. Like, the Acherus DKs get ditched at Light's Hope and you get a "LOL KNIGHTS, NO1CURR" from LK, and then later on when Thassarian is up yelling at Valanar (and failing at insults forever) he shows up like "HEY THASSARIAN HOW YOU BEEN HOW'S DARION YEAH THAT'S GREAT okay now you get your ass back to ICC right now k thx" like nothing even happened, and Thassarian's going "what in the orange plaid hell are you on!?" And there's the "I was once a shaman" in Wyrmskull, versus the "humanity's most wayward son" to Tirion. Maybe Nerz takes over the driver's seat while Arthas is napping or thinking about nekkid elves. I dunno. it's intriguing! One of a bunch of things that didn't get explored much and really needed to be. See also: why the hell didn't Varian flip the hell out at the plagued grain being shipped to Farshire? If we're to assume that the novel is accurate and Varian and Arthas had this epic level princely bro-mance (I like writing this, even though parts of the novel are super dumb), then that grain thing was a straight-up "HEY VARIAN HEY JAINA WHAT DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF LOLOLOL I WOULDA GOT YOU GUYS A POSTCARD FROM STRAT TOO BUT THEY WERE ALL STILL ON FIRE HAHA." It's a direct callback to Arthas's own fall from grace, and in my view a really trolltastic dig at the two of them. AU!Varian (who thinks he's partly to blame for Arthas's batshittery because dammit wasn't he Arthas's friend shouldn't he have noticed something wrong BLUH) reacted to this in a rather capslock-tacular way. At length. And considerable volume!
These are unnecessarily verbose and probably really tinhatted parentheses!)
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Date: 2012-07-12 09:43 pm (UTC)BRILLIANT.
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Date: 2012-07-12 11:07 pm (UTC)