The fate of Alexis Kennedy's contribution to DA4

You mean when they hired OSC almost a decade ago?

I think it can be safely said that times have changed... although that story also is kinda never mentioned ever again in DA universe and OSC was never hired by them as well. So there's some sort of precedent there, I guess.

Were they ever validated as canon like some other pieces are? (by being mentioned in games or WOT or other auxiliary pieces?)

What was so bad about those comics, anyway? OSC always struck me as.... competent, or even good depending on where and what he's up to..

I'm guessing Orson Scott Card? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card


Sci-Fi writer.  Noted anti-gay marriage proponent.

I didn't know he'd written for Bioware - but then, I've not read any of the comics they've put out.

I only knew Orson Scott Card for his "Ender" series and don't know about his drama. But here is the info I just found.

Dragon Age Comic by OSC

A Review describing the Narrative of the comic

Also, judging from Wynne's story, who the father is didn't matter and no one's life was on the line. She just didn't get to keep the kid.

"Gleam"? Sending the templar dad out to catch the mage mom *with* her phylactery and they don't just run away together? That seems dumb. A lot about this seems dumb. lol I understand why they never mention it ever.

Reading through his post I don't think I'm comfortable with writing him off, frankly.

1. His relationship with Olivia was problematic but if it's true that she is the one 1) who asked for a job (ie knowingly not only entered into but help to create the situation where she would be dating her superior) 2) asked him not to mention it before or after then her position (that she 'in a relationship' with her boss but failing to mention her place in facilitating it and fearing for her job/reputation in going public after despite her previously asking him not to) is less straightforward than she implied initially. This doesn't say anything about HOW he decided to end it though which makes him, to quote his ex, a bit of a dick.
2. The fact that he immediately after dating an inferior he dated a different one is, again, problematic but considering that 1) they're still together and 2) there's on equal footing at Weather Factory (I think?) suggesting the relationship is somehow fundamentally flawed or actively abusive seems unfair. People harp on the age differential but at the end of the day two consenting adults who are mentally capable of making their own decisions can date who they want, suggesting that Lottie doesn't know what's good for her becomes infantilizing at some point.
3. The accusations of someone making you uncomfortable is fair enough I suppose as it relates to your own personal experience, not necessarily fair when you introduce it into a conversation about sexual abuse with the implication becoming that it has some kind of parity with or adds validity to abuse claims.

Lastly, while I recognize why someone might not want to come forward when the figure you're accusing is also reputed to threaten/manipulate people into silence but this continuing suggestion of there being dozens of women with relevant experiences but they're all just cowed into silence sure is... something.

"This man is an unrepentant chicken thief and I need you all to treat him that way!" "Do you have proof?" "There are dozens of people's whose chickens he's stolen capable of corroborating my account!" "Where are they?" "They don't want to come forward but trust me they're there!"

Like. What are you supposed to even do with that, honestly? I get that a system that you need to use (public callouts) because other systems have failed you is going to have its flaws but this is something different, it's actively unfair to ask someone to be held accountable to Schrodinger's accusation. Having the aforementioned behaviors serve as the sole basis for consequences would be one thing, suggesting that they're part of a broader unseen pattern and having THAT serve as the basis for facing consequences while at the same time never having to proof that the unseen pattern exists is ENTIRELY another.

So what do we have? Alexis Kennedy is a bit of dick who needs to stop dating his inferiors. But considering a variety of factors (the lack of even the suggestion that he used his position of power to coerce the women into entering it, the initiating of the relationship in at least one circumstance, the long[ish] term nature of both, that silence of the one was started at the request of the accuser) I'm not sure it justifies pariah status. Relationships are entered into by two consenting adults, when there's a power differential in the status of those two adults the bulk of knowing better rests on the person with the power but not all of that power and when you stay with that person over a long period of time without coercion and capable of sustaining yourself as a professional individual you're clearly signalling that you're okay with the power differential and that you're in the relationship despite that. Not even getting into how responsibility divvies up when you actively solicit the creation of the problematic relationship in the first place.

Some red flags: I'm not sure what mentioning he had sex with Jayanth contributed to his perspective. I can infer that he probably has some personal enmity towards her now and that might have influenced him wanting to frame the conversation in a certain kind of way to suggest motive on her part. Do I but that motive? Not really, not without more reason. Do I understand why he might feel bitchy in his situation and mention irrelevant things? Yah. Second, it's never a good look to preemptively deny allegations but a) if you're 100% you did nothing wrong (as Kennedy seems to feel) and that as the existing accusations are unfounded (ie you perceive them as not having any legit reason to exist) that c) more accusations that you see as having no reason to exist might emanate from the ether and d) these can be preemptively discarded because you're sure you did nothing wrong.