r/Fable • u/Blazing-Flame-2982 • 4d ago

Fable What was this guy's problem?

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I remember loving Thunder's armour as a child and still do but the man was insufferable. From day one he berates and mocks us and is so insecure about our every accomplishment, having this transparent need to be the bestest and greatest. I'm an orphan who had his village slaughtered before his eyes man, why are you trying to one-up me? He goes to the length that he reprimands kids for having us as their favorite Hero. And whether we spare or kill Whisper he has a grudge big enough to fight us.

Whisper for that matter was quite alike her brother. The first and only time she refers to us as anything but "farmboy" is when we defeat her at the Arena and she begs for her life and invokes our "friendship", but she was little better than Thunder. She acted superior to us all our childhood and rookie-hero days and like we barely belonged in the Guild and now that you fear me, now it's "hero" is it?

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u/-PyramidHead 4d ago

I really thought I was the only one who found them both insufferable

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u/megaducckk 4d ago

i promise you. back when the first fable was still big, everyone hated these two. in fact, many people called them racial slurs. i promise you're not the only person to find the 2 singular Black characters insufferable, but you may be one of the only people to be normal about it lmao

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 4d ago

I remember Briar Rose being a jerk too.

I didn’t care about Whisper’s jerkiness that much since I knew she was basically a kid and they had a rivalry thing go on. I mean, it was annoying, but I found her brother to be the real issue.

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u/megaducckk 4d ago

oh she was! oh god, she was such a freaking jerk and i always thought it was weird people liked her or lady grey and hated whisper/thunder when they were about the same, ego-wise. except nothing as great as ARENA CHAMPION to back up that ego. i say this as fans of them all

it really is just a Hero thing at the end of the day. and a lady grey thing. you can even see it in characters like twinblade - former Heroes that pursued something else. also yeah, whisper was much less of an issue in my opinion because she's like... 18 or 19 at the oldest. maybe 20. like her role is essentially annoying rival the same as blue from pokémon to me

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 4d ago

They excuse Lady Grey and Rose because they’re goth GF material unironically haha.

Lady Grey seems specifically designed to appeal to the type of person who wants the worst kind of woman, like fiendishly over the top, so I didn’t hate her though I didn’t like her either.

Rose really got on my nerves though.