dahlia is a wiener
dahlia sinfelle is honestly one of the most insufferable characters ive ever seen in the The Legend of Drizzt and not even because she’s “evil” or whatever but because she is just a walking narrative dead-end‽ like every single thing about her screams that she should either evolve or collapse and instead she just like lingers. being stuck in this loop of rage, trauma, violence, repeat, like she literally collects lovers just to kill them or be killed by them (which is already ridiculous enough!!!) and somehow the story treats this as depth instead of what it actually is which is stagnation; and then you throw her into arcs with Drizzt Do'Urden where she manipulates him, mocks his ideals, drags him into her mess and what does it lead to‽ nothing meaningful, no growth, no real consequence, just more of the same bitter spiral; and dont even get started on how many times the narrative saves her—captured, tortured, turned to stone, mentally shattered, revived, handed power as a fake matron mother while basically not even functional and STILL she doesnt change!!! its like the story is terrified of committing to anything with her, because realistically a character built like this either finds some form of resolution or dies from the very patterns she refuses to break, but nope instead we get this endless half-state where she’s too unstable to grow and too protected to fall, which makes her feel less like a character and more like a malfunctioning plot device being dragged from scene to scene; and the whole “i want a lover to kill me” angle‽ that should be the most obvious setup for a tragic payoff imaginable!!! but it never lands, it just sits there as edgy window dressing with zero follow-through, so at the end of the day she doesnt come across as complex or compelling she comes across as poorly handled, repetitive, and narratively weightless a character who actively weakens the story by refusing to either become something or end just this constant noise that never resolves‼