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yukieSo the stupidness what is canon right now has inspired me to actually try to explain this guy, as by now they're so radically different as to make people wonder what I'm on probably! WHEE!
Oh well. I have fun writing him and he actually makes sense. (Also, he has not shaved his head and tattooed his lower jaw. And his head is not too small for his body. And he doesn't wear the stupid HORNS OMFG what is that even. He does however have a big ass Warsong Clan mark tat on his back now.)
Anyway, I'mma start off here by discussing his Many Issues because they govern a lot of his life for along time (he gets better) and they're what cause the most problems for him. They fall into three rough categories:
1) issues dealing with himself
2) issues dealing with culture
3) issues about his dad
So I'mma go through all of these. This, again, is AU!Garrosh, so if something seems WTFz0rs it's probably not canon. Mwah hah. Also, I am NOT making excuses for the stupid things he does (which are not the same stupid things as canon, but are still stupid). I'm trying to explain why he thought he should do 'em. XD
1) GARROSH'S ISSUES DEALING WITH HIMSELF
-His health wasn't great when he was a kid--indeed he damn near died of red pox when he was a kid, and got smacktalked for being ill. This tends to leave a mark on a guy--especially when he still suffers lingering complications as a result of having been ill. Garrosh is prone to something like asthma/minor bronchitis because of the OW MY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM component of the illness--humid, very cold, or thin air isn't kind to him. He gradually will sound more and more crappy and his energy level starts to go down the hole, which people in Northrend would have noticed. Garrosh, in turn, would notice the noticing and really really play up the BIG BADASS McLARGE HUGE to hide this, because if people think he's a shit leader/weak, then he'll be a complete failure of an orc. This goes double around people he remembered from Nagrand--though he was open about his apprehension at first, once that was done the bluster was rifuckulous.
-He's still got crappy self-image. Depression doesn't go away overnight and while Garrosh is doing better now, he still has that core of 'wow, I kind of suck a lot' in action. He is very much not his dad, and he knows it, and he's not sure whether people want him to be his dad or hope he's not going to be his dad, because it varies from person to person. He compares himself often to his dad, and Thrall, and Saurfang, and Dranosh, and etc. etc. etc. and usually he decides he's lacking. So he feels flailingly LOST in the end, and this leads to him basically trying to be all things to all people, failing at that, kicking himself, and then covering this up with more bravado, smacktalk and capslock. Defensive Garrosh is defensive.
-He feels like he's got to make up for lost time/for being a weenie in Nagrand. Mind, he was not a weenie, he was straight-up depressed, but he thinks he was an insufferable, useless, terminal weenie. He's embarrassed as hell that Thrall's first impression of him was this mopey bratty kid and he's bound and determined to prove he is no longer that person. This unfortunately leads to him trying to abandon traits that would make him a better leader--he's swung in the total opposite direction from what he used to do, to his own detriment. Garrosh cannot see a middle ground right now. (Well--he CAN, he just does his damnedest to ignore it.) So where he used to be extremely caught up in his own head overthinking everything and seeing it through the lens of total pessimism, he's now trying not to overthink and succeeding so well that he's just -not- thinking (or overthinking and then going against his better judgement)...and still seeing things pessimistically, but trying to hide the fact that he is. Because a good leader is CONFIDENT AND SHIT!!!111! This here is the root of his sucking at listening to people. In spite of his best efforts, though, his introspective side still comes out--he was, for example, a lot more honest and open with people he knew from Nagrand, when they showed up in Northrend. Rank has a lot to do with how ridiculous he gets, too. If he feels like he's failed to live up to the expectations of a social elder, he gets stupid.
-Though he digs being trusted with important shit and he does like being recognized as badass? Responsibility freaks him the fuck out at the core. His bad self image means that, often, he's pretty much convinced he's gonna screw up and everyone will die because of him. Of course he can't let anyone KNOW this, though, and of course he can't TALK to anyone about this, because that would make him a weenie like how he was a weenie in Nagrand, and he cannot be a weenie, SO HE MUST BE SUPER FUCKING LOUD AND CONFIDENT ALL THE TIME , LOOK, VOCAL CAPSLOCK.
2) GARROSH'S ISSUES WITH CULTURE (his own and others')
-He's not used to how diverse the races of the Horde are. Garrosh is used to dealing with other Mag'har Orcs, sometimes ogres, gronn, and--yeah, anything native to Outland, but get him to Azeroth and his brain starts to go *record needle scratch*. Not only has he got a whackload of strange new opponents to cope with, he has a whackload of strange new allies! The Tauren are the easiest for him to understand, since their culture and his are a little similar--but when it comes to how to deal with conflict, things diverge again.
-He has VERY BIG RESERVATIONS about some things that the Horde takes in stride. For example, he trusts warlocks about as far as he can chuck Durn the Hungerer, and he doesn't know why the heck Thrall let them keep on keeping on. The Blood Elves make him extremely wary because of the whole fel thing. Mages? Fel magnets. Druids he kind of gets, because they're sorta Shamanish but not exactly. Paladins are just what the fuck, and the Forsaken and Death Knights? OH MY GOD FORGET IT NO HE CANNOT DEAL BRB LOL.
-Jumping off from the prior article, his OH MY GOD FORGET IT etc. is a direct result of his upbringing, and his awareness of the naughty shit the Shadow Council and oldskewl Horde got up to. He knows of the original Death Knights (Teron and Co.) and knows that necromancy is some Burning Legion crap. While he's aware that the necromancy animating the Forsaken and DKs is very much different from the stuff Gul'dan used, that doesn't help much since the Forsaken and DKs are animated by something very much stronger and a while lot colder. Needless to say the Val'kyr scare him shitless, and the fact that Sylvanas absolutely cannot animate any dead person whose restless, tormented spirit isn't stuck in this reality? Doesn't help.
-The rest of the Horde's methods of warfare are another OMG LOL BRB THUD. Garrosh is used to fighting in a certain way. His method worked fine in Nagrand, for the most part, but on Azeroth it sometimes fails and loses. Herein lies the issue--some of his allies use methods he cannot stand. The blight, as far as he's concerned, is some straight-up Legion-tactics shit (he knows how the broken came to be, after all). Anything of this nature (really big bombs, mana bombs, radioactive OMGWTF etc.) goes on his FUCK NO list. He doesn't trust Warlocks and doesn't want them on his side, the Blood Elves' crazyass AoE spells skirt the boundary of 'okay' for him, and all of this hiding in the trees and sniping crap the Troll and B'elves do, what the fuck even. This isn't to say that he doesn't recognize the effectiveness and merits of most of these tactics (though he will never say giantass bombs, blight etc. are the least bit okay), but he still doesn't fully know how to make the best of them and he's not sure he should be asking for help planning because MUST BE TEH BADASS ALL THE TIME.
-By turns, he's kind of snotty about dealing with Azerothian orcs--especially veterans of the First and SecondWAAAAGHWars. This comes back to his issues with GOOD OLD KARGATH. While he knows they're his elders and they know a lot of shit he can't begin to fathom, they're also the dumbasses who chugged Demon Kool-Aid, and yes, he does slot his dad into this category, and then feels guilty about doing that and generally being a judgemental shit, but seriously DEMON KOOL-AID and round and round his brain goes until he's crosseyed. We see this in action as he talks to Saurfang. When Varok discusses PTSD symptoms, Garrosh is torn between 'wait, you FEEL something?' and 'oh shit that's awful I can't even imagine coming down off that shit to remember--' and 'omfg I can't afford to succumb to bad memory like this, Saurfang can afford to but he's stupidly epic and he's a LEGEND and I am not (yet)'.
-Because he isn't entirely familiar with Azerothian Horde culture, he's vulnerable to certain shit (e.g. manipulation by the Shadow Council and Twilight's Hammer) and he has accidentally touched off horrible shit. While his ARR BLARG RARGH rhetoric would be taken for the psych-up and glory-of-battle warrior-poet shenanigans it's meant to be if he was back home, on Azeroth there's an entirely different blend of cultures and circumstances. People will take him at face value. People like Krom'gar (an OLSKEWL!!111 douche who didn't learn from the past) and Cromush (who, like Garrosh, is trying to prove himself a badass) will take his rhetoric for carte blanche to 'do whatever it takes to win' in the crappiest, douchiest possible way.
-He'd not have these issues so much if he wasn't usually too insecure to admit he fucked up/shit's not working/he has no idea WTF/he wasn't right, and work to change. Also, he WORSHIPS Greatmother Geyah and he's trying his best to live in accordance to what he was taught...but he's gone and forgotten the important you-have-to-adapt rule. On lousy days he takes critique of his leadership as a swipe against her and gets pissy, no matter how irrational that is. And he honestly knows it's not bright. Which makes things suck more, again. He's getting better about this but he still bangs his head on walls in this respect a lot.
-And this wraps back around to Garrosh doing stuff like "I'MMA DEKE THIS DRAGON OUT LAWLLLLL *tries to do a barrel roll and attack the dragon's weak spot for massive damage*" because he feels he must regain his honour in the eyes of his people, because the shitty actions of the army are ultimately the Warchief's responsibility. His own shitty actions do not escape his scrutiny either--indeed, he holds himself to a stupidly high standard and on bad days he will blame himself for anything under the sun that could have gone wrong. On some level, he might have hoped to go down with the zeppelin for everything he's responsible for. That is straight-up old-oldschool orc culture right there--sometimes death is the only way to regain honour. Of course in Garrosh's case it ISN'T and it's better for him to live and damn well fix things. Saurfang eventually clobbers this message into his head.
3) GARROSH'S ISSUES WITH HIS DAD
-OH GOD THEY ARE MANY. Firstly, he is not his dad. He can never be his dad. He knows he can never be his dad. And he's not sure whether this is a good thing of a bad thing, because he can't decide whether Grom was The Hero or The Goat. Grom was really BOTH, of course, but Garrosh has a hell of a time reconciling these two sides of his dad, whom he never really knew well.
-When it comes to dealing with his dad being The Goat, Garrosh ends up banging his head on walls a lot. His 'respect-the-dead' and 'respect-your-ancestors' rules smash facefirst into his 'the-followers-of-Gul'dan-were-all-fucking-stupid' and 'why-the-fuck-would-you-even-drink-that-oh-my-fuck-you-dipshits' rules and everything explodes all over the floor. And Garrosh is left poking at the pieces with a metaphorical stick. Thrall seems to have no trouble reocnciling the disparate sides of Grom, and Garrosh would LOVE to know how Thrall manages that, and now we're back around to Garrosh comparing himself to people again.
-Using his clan name so often ties into this nest of issues too. With Grom gone, Garrosh is the Warsong clan head. He was expected to be a leader in Nagrand, and is the Warsong rep on Azeroth now. He's torn between 'FUCK YEAH' and 'oh SHIT' about this. One the one hand, he will always be compared to his dad no matter where the hell he goes. On the other, his dad was awesome. On the gripping hand, his dad was STUPID. Garrosh isn't sure whether he should kick people or thank them for comparing him to his dad! Either way, using his clan name to refer to himself ("TEH 3Y3 OF H3LLSCR34M" etc. etc.) is his way of asserting that He Is The Boss Of The Clan Nao...but he's not fully sure of his motives for doing this, besides that it's traditional*. He doesn't know if it's also trying to be like his dad, or trying to forge his own destiny and prove he's just as good as his dad if not better, or trying to replace his dad's image of What A Hellscream Is About in the collective consciousness, or what. And that's one more thing on his mind.
-His dad issues are, incidentally, the main ways that the TwiHards got under his skin and jerked him around. Same goes for the Shadow Council. he knows this, and he's horrified by it, and he's trying to get out of his rut, but dammit it's difficult.
So yeah. At the end of the day, Garrosh is one conflicted, insecure guy who really just would like to make his own way on the world but isn't sure how or even if he should. He is, in the AU, no longer Warchief--Saurfang kicked his ass and took over, much to Garrosh's embarrassment and secret relief. So now Garrosh has the freedom to fix what he broke, which is...a daunting task. A lot of bad shit is in motion because of him, and he's not totally sure he can stop it from snowballing, but dammit he's gonna try. And he's gonna write a really damn good Lok'vadnod for Cairne because Cairne is a million times more epic than him seriously.
And he's not going anywhere near Theramore because he can't breathe in the stupid marsh and the mosquitoes will eat his axe and then eat him and leave him a sad-ass pile of desiccated bones in the road. But if anyone ELSE tries, he's going to punch their asses, because seriously, DON'T PISS OFF MAGES AND/OR THRALL, COME ON, DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH.
So yeah. That's AU!Garrosh. Any questions you might have about him, i'll do my best to answer (and so will he, lawl). There's stuff I didn't cover because I wasn't sure how to (e.g. relationships with the Draenei and such) but I'll talk about those eventually.
*This tradition's what results in Garrosh calling Jaina 'Proudmoore' and Varian 'Wrynn, you jackass'. They are their respective family/clan/house heads. So while he can sound like a tool when he does this, he's adhering to the social rules he's familiar with--even if you dislike someone, you show decent respect. You are still allowed to call them jackasses, but you better at least have some manners about it, sheesh.
...Needless to say Varian is less of an idjit in the AU, too; he and Garrosh do manage to get the fuck over their shit and team up against the Lich King if only to piss him off because they hate him more than they hate each other. They're still kind of dense sometimes, and prone to brotastic frenemy stupidness-fest brawls, but they're not trying to kill each other.
I plan to meta about Varian too, again. XD
Oh well. I have fun writing him and he actually makes sense. (Also, he has not shaved his head and tattooed his lower jaw. And his head is not too small for his body. And he doesn't wear the stupid HORNS OMFG what is that even. He does however have a big ass Warsong Clan mark tat on his back now.)
Anyway, I'mma start off here by discussing his Many Issues because they govern a lot of his life for along time (he gets better) and they're what cause the most problems for him. They fall into three rough categories:
1) issues dealing with himself
2) issues dealing with culture
3) issues about his dad
So I'mma go through all of these. This, again, is AU!Garrosh, so if something seems WTFz0rs it's probably not canon. Mwah hah. Also, I am NOT making excuses for the stupid things he does (which are not the same stupid things as canon, but are still stupid). I'm trying to explain why he thought he should do 'em. XD
1) GARROSH'S ISSUES DEALING WITH HIMSELF
-His health wasn't great when he was a kid--indeed he damn near died of red pox when he was a kid, and got smacktalked for being ill. This tends to leave a mark on a guy--especially when he still suffers lingering complications as a result of having been ill. Garrosh is prone to something like asthma/minor bronchitis because of the OW MY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM component of the illness--humid, very cold, or thin air isn't kind to him. He gradually will sound more and more crappy and his energy level starts to go down the hole, which people in Northrend would have noticed. Garrosh, in turn, would notice the noticing and really really play up the BIG BADASS McLARGE HUGE to hide this, because if people think he's a shit leader/weak, then he'll be a complete failure of an orc. This goes double around people he remembered from Nagrand--though he was open about his apprehension at first, once that was done the bluster was rifuckulous.
-He's still got crappy self-image. Depression doesn't go away overnight and while Garrosh is doing better now, he still has that core of 'wow, I kind of suck a lot' in action. He is very much not his dad, and he knows it, and he's not sure whether people want him to be his dad or hope he's not going to be his dad, because it varies from person to person. He compares himself often to his dad, and Thrall, and Saurfang, and Dranosh, and etc. etc. etc. and usually he decides he's lacking. So he feels flailingly LOST in the end, and this leads to him basically trying to be all things to all people, failing at that, kicking himself, and then covering this up with more bravado, smacktalk and capslock. Defensive Garrosh is defensive.
-He feels like he's got to make up for lost time/for being a weenie in Nagrand. Mind, he was not a weenie, he was straight-up depressed, but he thinks he was an insufferable, useless, terminal weenie. He's embarrassed as hell that Thrall's first impression of him was this mopey bratty kid and he's bound and determined to prove he is no longer that person. This unfortunately leads to him trying to abandon traits that would make him a better leader--he's swung in the total opposite direction from what he used to do, to his own detriment. Garrosh cannot see a middle ground right now. (Well--he CAN, he just does his damnedest to ignore it.) So where he used to be extremely caught up in his own head overthinking everything and seeing it through the lens of total pessimism, he's now trying not to overthink and succeeding so well that he's just -not- thinking (or overthinking and then going against his better judgement)...and still seeing things pessimistically, but trying to hide the fact that he is. Because a good leader is CONFIDENT AND SHIT!!!111! This here is the root of his sucking at listening to people. In spite of his best efforts, though, his introspective side still comes out--he was, for example, a lot more honest and open with people he knew from Nagrand, when they showed up in Northrend. Rank has a lot to do with how ridiculous he gets, too. If he feels like he's failed to live up to the expectations of a social elder, he gets stupid.
-Though he digs being trusted with important shit and he does like being recognized as badass? Responsibility freaks him the fuck out at the core. His bad self image means that, often, he's pretty much convinced he's gonna screw up and everyone will die because of him. Of course he can't let anyone KNOW this, though, and of course he can't TALK to anyone about this, because that would make him a weenie like how he was a weenie in Nagrand, and he cannot be a weenie, SO HE MUST BE SUPER FUCKING LOUD AND CONFIDENT ALL THE TIME , LOOK, VOCAL CAPSLOCK.
2) GARROSH'S ISSUES WITH CULTURE (his own and others')
-He's not used to how diverse the races of the Horde are. Garrosh is used to dealing with other Mag'har Orcs, sometimes ogres, gronn, and--yeah, anything native to Outland, but get him to Azeroth and his brain starts to go *record needle scratch*. Not only has he got a whackload of strange new opponents to cope with, he has a whackload of strange new allies! The Tauren are the easiest for him to understand, since their culture and his are a little similar--but when it comes to how to deal with conflict, things diverge again.
-He has VERY BIG RESERVATIONS about some things that the Horde takes in stride. For example, he trusts warlocks about as far as he can chuck Durn the Hungerer, and he doesn't know why the heck Thrall let them keep on keeping on. The Blood Elves make him extremely wary because of the whole fel thing. Mages? Fel magnets. Druids he kind of gets, because they're sorta Shamanish but not exactly. Paladins are just what the fuck, and the Forsaken and Death Knights? OH MY GOD FORGET IT NO HE CANNOT DEAL BRB LOL.
-Jumping off from the prior article, his OH MY GOD FORGET IT etc. is a direct result of his upbringing, and his awareness of the naughty shit the Shadow Council and oldskewl Horde got up to. He knows of the original Death Knights (Teron and Co.) and knows that necromancy is some Burning Legion crap. While he's aware that the necromancy animating the Forsaken and DKs is very much different from the stuff Gul'dan used, that doesn't help much since the Forsaken and DKs are animated by something very much stronger and a while lot colder. Needless to say the Val'kyr scare him shitless, and the fact that Sylvanas absolutely cannot animate any dead person whose restless, tormented spirit isn't stuck in this reality? Doesn't help.
-The rest of the Horde's methods of warfare are another OMG LOL BRB THUD. Garrosh is used to fighting in a certain way. His method worked fine in Nagrand, for the most part, but on Azeroth it sometimes fails and loses. Herein lies the issue--some of his allies use methods he cannot stand. The blight, as far as he's concerned, is some straight-up Legion-tactics shit (he knows how the broken came to be, after all). Anything of this nature (really big bombs, mana bombs, radioactive OMGWTF etc.) goes on his FUCK NO list. He doesn't trust Warlocks and doesn't want them on his side, the Blood Elves' crazyass AoE spells skirt the boundary of 'okay' for him, and all of this hiding in the trees and sniping crap the Troll and B'elves do, what the fuck even. This isn't to say that he doesn't recognize the effectiveness and merits of most of these tactics (though he will never say giantass bombs, blight etc. are the least bit okay), but he still doesn't fully know how to make the best of them and he's not sure he should be asking for help planning because MUST BE TEH BADASS ALL THE TIME.
-By turns, he's kind of snotty about dealing with Azerothian orcs--especially veterans of the First and Second
-Because he isn't entirely familiar with Azerothian Horde culture, he's vulnerable to certain shit (e.g. manipulation by the Shadow Council and Twilight's Hammer) and he has accidentally touched off horrible shit. While his ARR BLARG RARGH rhetoric would be taken for the psych-up and glory-of-battle warrior-poet shenanigans it's meant to be if he was back home, on Azeroth there's an entirely different blend of cultures and circumstances. People will take him at face value. People like Krom'gar (an OLSKEWL!!111 douche who didn't learn from the past) and Cromush (who, like Garrosh, is trying to prove himself a badass) will take his rhetoric for carte blanche to 'do whatever it takes to win' in the crappiest, douchiest possible way.
-He'd not have these issues so much if he wasn't usually too insecure to admit he fucked up/shit's not working/he has no idea WTF/he wasn't right, and work to change. Also, he WORSHIPS Greatmother Geyah and he's trying his best to live in accordance to what he was taught...but he's gone and forgotten the important you-have-to-adapt rule. On lousy days he takes critique of his leadership as a swipe against her and gets pissy, no matter how irrational that is. And he honestly knows it's not bright. Which makes things suck more, again. He's getting better about this but he still bangs his head on walls in this respect a lot.
-And this wraps back around to Garrosh doing stuff like "I'MMA DEKE THIS DRAGON OUT LAWLLLLL *tries to do a barrel roll and attack the dragon's weak spot for massive damage*" because he feels he must regain his honour in the eyes of his people, because the shitty actions of the army are ultimately the Warchief's responsibility. His own shitty actions do not escape his scrutiny either--indeed, he holds himself to a stupidly high standard and on bad days he will blame himself for anything under the sun that could have gone wrong. On some level, he might have hoped to go down with the zeppelin for everything he's responsible for. That is straight-up old-oldschool orc culture right there--sometimes death is the only way to regain honour. Of course in Garrosh's case it ISN'T and it's better for him to live and damn well fix things. Saurfang eventually clobbers this message into his head.
3) GARROSH'S ISSUES WITH HIS DAD
-OH GOD THEY ARE MANY. Firstly, he is not his dad. He can never be his dad. He knows he can never be his dad. And he's not sure whether this is a good thing of a bad thing, because he can't decide whether Grom was The Hero or The Goat. Grom was really BOTH, of course, but Garrosh has a hell of a time reconciling these two sides of his dad, whom he never really knew well.
-When it comes to dealing with his dad being The Goat, Garrosh ends up banging his head on walls a lot. His 'respect-the-dead' and 'respect-your-ancestors' rules smash facefirst into his 'the-followers-of-Gul'dan-were-all-fucking-stupid' and 'why-the-fuck-would-you-even-drink-that-oh-my-fuck-you-dipshits' rules and everything explodes all over the floor. And Garrosh is left poking at the pieces with a metaphorical stick. Thrall seems to have no trouble reocnciling the disparate sides of Grom, and Garrosh would LOVE to know how Thrall manages that, and now we're back around to Garrosh comparing himself to people again.
-Using his clan name so often ties into this nest of issues too. With Grom gone, Garrosh is the Warsong clan head. He was expected to be a leader in Nagrand, and is the Warsong rep on Azeroth now. He's torn between 'FUCK YEAH' and 'oh SHIT' about this. One the one hand, he will always be compared to his dad no matter where the hell he goes. On the other, his dad was awesome. On the gripping hand, his dad was STUPID. Garrosh isn't sure whether he should kick people or thank them for comparing him to his dad! Either way, using his clan name to refer to himself ("TEH 3Y3 OF H3LLSCR34M" etc. etc.) is his way of asserting that He Is The Boss Of The Clan Nao...but he's not fully sure of his motives for doing this, besides that it's traditional*. He doesn't know if it's also trying to be like his dad, or trying to forge his own destiny and prove he's just as good as his dad if not better, or trying to replace his dad's image of What A Hellscream Is About in the collective consciousness, or what. And that's one more thing on his mind.
-His dad issues are, incidentally, the main ways that the TwiHards got under his skin and jerked him around. Same goes for the Shadow Council. he knows this, and he's horrified by it, and he's trying to get out of his rut, but dammit it's difficult.
So yeah. At the end of the day, Garrosh is one conflicted, insecure guy who really just would like to make his own way on the world but isn't sure how or even if he should. He is, in the AU, no longer Warchief--Saurfang kicked his ass and took over, much to Garrosh's embarrassment and secret relief. So now Garrosh has the freedom to fix what he broke, which is...a daunting task. A lot of bad shit is in motion because of him, and he's not totally sure he can stop it from snowballing, but dammit he's gonna try. And he's gonna write a really damn good Lok'vadnod for Cairne because Cairne is a million times more epic than him seriously.
And he's not going anywhere near Theramore because he can't breathe in the stupid marsh and the mosquitoes will eat his axe and then eat him and leave him a sad-ass pile of desiccated bones in the road. But if anyone ELSE tries, he's going to punch their asses, because seriously, DON'T PISS OFF MAGES AND/OR THRALL, COME ON, DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH.
So yeah. That's AU!Garrosh. Any questions you might have about him, i'll do my best to answer (and so will he, lawl). There's stuff I didn't cover because I wasn't sure how to (e.g. relationships with the Draenei and such) but I'll talk about those eventually.
*This tradition's what results in Garrosh calling Jaina 'Proudmoore' and Varian 'Wrynn, you jackass'. They are their respective family/clan/house heads. So while he can sound like a tool when he does this, he's adhering to the social rules he's familiar with--even if you dislike someone, you show decent respect. You are still allowed to call them jackasses, but you better at least have some manners about it, sheesh.
...Needless to say Varian is less of an idjit in the AU, too; he and Garrosh do manage to get the fuck over their shit and team up against the Lich King if only to piss him off because they hate him more than they hate each other. They're still kind of dense sometimes, and prone to brotastic frenemy stupidness-fest brawls, but they're not trying to kill each other.
I plan to meta about Varian too, again. XD
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Date: 2012-09-21 03:58 pm (UTC)Also, a certain pigtailed draenei shaman really REALLY wants to hug him.
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Date: 2012-09-21 06:20 pm (UTC)He still sees himself as this ill little kid a lot and then becomes dense. Well, not as much as he used to! But he was pretty dense in his heyday of densitude.
Garrosh would be very appreciative of hugs. <3