#this is a LOUD pro ava blog i love that kid and she deserves better

[arrogantmrcnry]

i feel like ava is undeservingly hated as a character in borderlands 3. i get she's a lil "annoying" or whatever but she's a kid. she's impulsive, impatient, somewhat self serving but like. all teenagers are like that, she's not the only one.

she's an orphan, she left her home planet to survive, she had to trust maya (who she barely knew!!) to keep her alive. maya brought her to athenas, which was soon invaded and she had to abandon yet another home. goes to live in sanctuary with more people she barely knows, and just wants to be involved because she IDOLIZES maya and wants to prove her worth to her. maya fucking dies (not ava's fault and I'll defend that stance tooth and nail) and she's an orphan again and has to bear the guilt of her mentor's death. idk man ava deserves a hell of a lot more empathy than she gets.

i think gearbox is setting up her to be a PC in BL4 or at least i can hope bc i really want to see her grow and evolve. i think she has a lot of pressure on her re: maya and lillith's gifts they bestowed but i think she's gonna be a very capable leader in the future.

#this is a LOUD pro ava blog i love that kid and she deserves better #i also feel like the issue often is that all female NPCs in this series specifically are used as scapegoats #like just look at everyone who hated lillith #this just in female characters are multidimensional and complex and a lot of y'all don't know how to grapple w that w/o being misogynistic #bl3 #borderlands 3 spoilers #long post #bl3 spoilers