[quote][quote]Nightmare of Safiyah: You say you mourned our deaths, Zavala? Stood at our graves, cried out in prayer to your Traveler? Zavala: [stammers] For a long time... Nightmare of Safiyah: What good did it do? No Ghosts found us. Instead, the Traveler gave the Light to your enemies. Zavala: It's not that simple! Nightmare of Safiyah: It is that simple! That abandoner deserves your duty more than me. More than our son. It's why you left us both to die, alone. [/quote] Even in Haunted when his faith to the Traveler is called into question it’s specifically drawing on the events of Witch Queen and the Hive acquiring the Light. It’s not uniquely. tied to his family As well as that, the Nightmare of Safiyah is a weapon of Calus deployed to specifically break Zavala, it’s specifically dredging up ANY negative emotions it can to keep him off balance and stop him from severing it and loosening Calus’s hold on the Pyramid. Zavala’s initial grief over Hakim causing him to beg Targe to revive him wasn’t the beginning of his eroding faith in the Traveler, it’s just being used now because the fact that the Hive were more worthy of the Light than Hakim paints a worse picture of the Traveler. [quote]I have no problems with gay or trans people, and I have several of both in my clan and I play with them every time I'm online.[/quote] Did… did you just pull the ‘I have -insert minority here- friends’ cards while trying to defend yourself? We’re arguing about the consistency and quality of writing of Zavala’s character here, it has nothing to do with whatever culture war rubbish you’re trying to drag into the mix.[/quote] You're the one using Tumblr words to a stranger on the Internet you don't know. Me adding relevant context to my daily experience is a perfectly acceptable response to a stranger misconstruing my personal life and belief system. If you don't like that response, stop making wholesale assumptions about people you don't know and people will stop responding with how the thing you claim they hate is actually a daily part of their lives and how that thing wouldn't be a part of their daily lives if they hated it. Anyway, If the whole Hakim thing didn't happen, or if Zavala had processed it prior to the witch queen, the hive getting the light wouldn't have summoned up those feelings to begin with. The light chose not to revive his kid, and now he calls into question everything it does. That means all instances of him questioning his God revolves around that one central premise, given that he did not question his God previously. Even so, the act of turning it from a nightmare into a memory was supposed to be him conquering his nightmare, as that was the allegorical parallel being drawn by the story. "Coming to terms so that Calus doesn't have a hold on you anymore" was a central storytelling mechanic in that season that every other character has adhered to except Zavala.