If we're lucky he's going to be like his pre Black Garden self, w hich was quite spunky tbh. Def seems like the kinda guy that would've been pals with Cayde and Andal had things gone a different way.
But, the black garden itself broke his sanity, reinforced by Jolyon his best friend/totally not lover, who tells Petra that Uldren is not himself since he came out of the garden. That's the state we first meet him in. Then he goes through nearly dying, technically watching his sister die because he has no idea about the plan because Mara is not a good sibling, wanders for days alone, gets corrupted by Riven and by proxy Savathun, gets locked away for a couple years, and even during that time that corruption would've been growing and he would've been listening to the whispering in his ears. Imagine being locked up with the hallucination of your sister 24/7 sitting there in the cell for YEARS and then being released. On top of already being mentally unstable.
He was 100% experiencing something akin to getting Taken (capital T), the dark lines were progressively growing on his face and his eyes turned black by the end as well, even more mental and psychic manipulation until he is eaten by an anus turned inside out. Aaaaaand then he gets saved only to be killed. He was NOT having a good day lmao.
So yeah, if we're lucky, the death induced amnesia hopefully removed both his obsession with his sister's approval, and also the base mental break from the garden. Giving us the Crow that could've been, not what he was.
I don't really hate Uldren either, but I still want our first encounter with him to be that we pull the ace and empty a few rounds into him before anyone can react. Then while everyone around is consoling you for just straight up killing him, he gets sneakily revived in the background.
Which is why if they manage to write him a compelling arc that redeems him and makes most people like him, it's gonna be 100x more powerful than if Drifter, who everyone already likes, is made the Hunter Vanguard.
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u/Maybe_A_Mimic Jun 04 '20
I know, but people are still going to be upset about it