Delance
Victory, you say?
Well, first of all, it’s important to say that this message is about a personal impression I have from the WC universe. I’m not saying any of this is “canon”, “official”, or whatever. It’s just a comment about a subject aspect of WC.
Blair and Tolwyn did have a level of respect and admiration of each other, and they also did bump their head a few times. It’s interesting when you get the beginning of their relationship, with Tolwyn teaching a still cadet Blair about how to command a ship on WCA with WC4, where they battle carrier to carrier.
There’s a Freudian thing when he tells Blair that he envies him on Confed HQ. It’s clear that Tolwyn’s insincere about the pastoral life, but did envy Blair for other reasons. The awkward moments between them on Confed HQ are revealing – even on the losing cutscene where Tolwyn ignores Blair’s gesture to shake hands. Quite moving, actually, like Blair’s brave execution, a nice scene that look like it was taken from a WW1 movie.
The admiral clearly admired the Kilrathi, but the warrior they admired the most was Blair. They surrendered to Blair, and Tolwyn signed the papers. Tolwyn fought the Kilrathi for a lot of time, but did he get a special nickname? No.
I think this is somewhat hinted in WC4, where Tolwyn turns the ship around. He would not run from, Blair, no sir.
Tolwyn says to Seether: "The heart of the tiger... that's what the Kilrathi called him. He could have been, truly, a great warrior. Now, he's nothing more than a traitor". The subtext here is that he’s the great warrior, after all, not Blair.
Also interesting was his message to Blair. "You may be tenacious, but I'm the one who's inventible." WCIV is also about the personal struggle between Tolwyn and Blair. Tolwyn resents that Blair never acknowledged his superiority as a warrior: “You should know that by now.”
Comments?
Blair and Tolwyn did have a level of respect and admiration of each other, and they also did bump their head a few times. It’s interesting when you get the beginning of their relationship, with Tolwyn teaching a still cadet Blair about how to command a ship on WCA with WC4, where they battle carrier to carrier.
There’s a Freudian thing when he tells Blair that he envies him on Confed HQ. It’s clear that Tolwyn’s insincere about the pastoral life, but did envy Blair for other reasons. The awkward moments between them on Confed HQ are revealing – even on the losing cutscene where Tolwyn ignores Blair’s gesture to shake hands. Quite moving, actually, like Blair’s brave execution, a nice scene that look like it was taken from a WW1 movie.
The admiral clearly admired the Kilrathi, but the warrior they admired the most was Blair. They surrendered to Blair, and Tolwyn signed the papers. Tolwyn fought the Kilrathi for a lot of time, but did he get a special nickname? No.
I think this is somewhat hinted in WC4, where Tolwyn turns the ship around. He would not run from, Blair, no sir.
Tolwyn says to Seether: "The heart of the tiger... that's what the Kilrathi called him. He could have been, truly, a great warrior. Now, he's nothing more than a traitor". The subtext here is that he’s the great warrior, after all, not Blair.
Also interesting was his message to Blair. "You may be tenacious, but I'm the one who's inventible." WCIV is also about the personal struggle between Tolwyn and Blair. Tolwyn resents that Blair never acknowledged his superiority as a warrior: “You should know that by now.”
Comments?
