Talk:Orianna/@comment-27066268-20161208141849/@comment-27066268-20161210030049

I didn't say that Orianna's old lore was a masterpiece, I said that scrapping who she was completely is something I didn't like at all since it's almost the same as removing her and putting someone else in her place. She was a twisted masterpiece, but she was also overall oblivious to it. And she was "young". They could have built her new story about her starting to actually becoming a real living being, not a mere imitation, and how her father and Orianna herself would have reacted to it could have made a great story. As for the Ball, I never believed that theory you mentioned (just like you, if I understood what you meant. If not then sorry about misinterpreting your words), but there definitively was a deeper connection between it and Orianna than there is now, and something really interesting could have been built upon it too (like, I don't own, her father placing a copy of his own memories and personality inside of it, to both protect her "daughter" and stay with her all the time, in a way). Now the Ball is basically the same as an high-tech guard dog.

The Fieram tale. Yes, awkwardness wasn't too much surprising for this new Orianna there. And that's the problem. Old Orianna might have mimicked a similar reaction, but she would have come off as... wrong. Off. Creepy even. This new Orianna felt far too much natural. While reading it I never really thought that she was no longer human. She never gave off that impression. Also, while her new bio could still leave some "hopes" with the way it ended, this story basically said "nope, old Orianna is dead and gone, forget about her". Orianna's old lore was nowhere near old Sion's level of bad for example - (lore wise) he retained basically everything which defined him before his rework, which was really nothing more than "terrifying undead noxian soldier", with his actual character not even being defined- Orianna's one had lots of room for imprevement without needing to gut it.

On a side note, this new Orianna honestly feels too much stereotyped.