Was Viego ever a loving husband? || outtake #shorts

[rafaelsousa]

Another interesting question is: did Viego actually love Isolde or the image he had of her? Because those can be two very different things

[thechainwarden]

I think the angle they might be going for is that the relationship is the kind where the bad parts don't show up until it ends. When the guy can't let go and gets really obsessive and possessive. Also in Viego's bio it is worded in a way that after Isolde's death Viego WENT insane implying that he wasn't as extreme when she was alive.

[Maggie-sqlj]

I'd like to think Viego is similar to Tsar Ivan the Terrible, with Viego becoming bitter and nasty only after the death of his wife. For context, Ivan the Terrible was completely in love with his wife, and became the most bloodthirsty Tsar in Russian history after his first wife Anastasia Romanovna was poisoned by his political enemies. I do recommend reading about it if you haven't, it's very interesting to see the similarities between Viego and Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and I genuinely believe he is who Riot drew inspiration from for Viego.

[ladyhaha]

0:33 Every historical shoujo manga be like

[clairelili]

People obsessing about what viego says in the game forget that he isnt the same man that isolde probably fell in love with.
Viego now is only grief and hate. Imagine like dracula from the castlevania netflix series, he can be lovingly and even a good person, but the death of his loved one forever changed what he is. the worse thing is, we probably il never know how their relationship was because, well, the black mist changes them. Viego is at his lowest, forever griefing the death of his loved one and wanting to do anything for her to be back, and hating the world so much because it let isolde die, the mist only amplifying it even further.
And then isolde might be a lot different from what we know as well. what if at her last moments she felt the same as viego, hate and grief that death would end their relationship, and this would bring the worst of her thanks to the mist.
But, i sincerely hope that isolde il not be changed and actually try to save viego from what he became, an hollow, bitter shell of what once he was.

[AllYourPals]

I imagine that he is ultimately more concerned with his love for her than her feelings or well being. If he does love her I think it would be something more of a stalkers obsession than any real affection, infatuated with his image of her rather than the woman herself

[autisonm]

I think a Rioter confirmed somewhere that they both loved each other and Isolde willingly became the princess because she always wanted to be a princess. The wedge probably happened because Isolde saw that Viego didnt do his job and run the country.

edit: Also I think Gwen was kinda meant to represent what Isolde thought a princess should be.

[khomozhea]

well, the trailer of gwen says "made with love" added that making a doll for a powerfull and wealthy king, seems to be a purely symbolic gift.
So i assume that Isolde loved Viego, at least before he became the ruined king, i guess that she would be terrified for the new viego.

[Prefix]

I think they do love each other very much, but viego's hubris became their downfall.

[Hellothere-ssjq]

Betting the ASMR bit is coming, in time...Skyen is a man of the people

[noxiouschocolate]

There’s also the fact that Isolde was a commoner and came from a place that was conquered by camavor and according to tweets, while viego may have doted on her, it’s not very comforting to think about how she would have been treated by the rest of camavor’s nobility

[stormstrikerpro]

I find it much more interesting if Viego and Isolde did have a loving relationship. Characters at the center of League’s story deserve to be complex, and Viego once being a good person who did truly love his wife, but was ‘ruined’ by it is much more interesting than an obsessive lover. Especially when a lot of League’s villains are evil to be evil (i.e. Mordekaiser and the void), having multi-layered villains is something the story needs.

[omnizoom]

Isn’t it in the story though that a lot of his bad traits stopped when we found Isolde ? Wasn’t the mismanaging of the kingdom because he had become complacent and peaceful but his generals wanted more, it seems the kingdom was prosperous under viego but not reaching its potential so the ploy to kill him was enacted and Isolde saved him from the attempt, but viego still died that day too and the kingdom fell to ruins trying to save her, I think when she was revived the shock of resurrection is why she stabbed viego, Yorick I think mentions that it’s not a pleasant experience to be resurrected

Also we know Isolde puts her soul into her work, what if when she died all the good parts of her soul scattered to her works but her bad parts cling to her body and viego so when she was revived she had no positive traits

[afrouniverse]

I do think Viego wasnt a very good husband, but not in the sense that he was abusive. He gives me the impression that he had such an idealistic view of Isolde that he never had a normal relationship with her. He constantly gave her flowers, complimented her, did everything for her. He was essentially stuck in the honeymoon phase permenantly. And thats not very healthy if Isolde loved him in a manner not as passionate as his. So maybe he was a good husband in a way, but his love was extremely overbearing..

[Arthurixi]

Well in the book, it shows that they both truly loved each other and when she was poisoned, he slowly declined in his attitude and I do like the idea that becoming the ruined king made it to where all of his negativity and worse feelings and his narcissistic behavior was just part of him accepting that he was now this being

[paulb]

I honestly preferred the early lore where Viego was a suggested to be a noble(or at least not evil) and at least adequate king. I like the idea of one of his "good" qualities was seeing past rank and royalty and falling in love with her, with her reciprocating. It makes the tragedy of their story better in my eyes. That her poisoning and eventual death drove Viego, a once decent man over the edge and turned him into a bitter shell of what he once was. There are plenty of stories where a person is bad through and through, it just doesn't feel right to me here. I also like to imagine reason for Isolde rejecting him when he attempts to bring her back are that the man she loved died with her. The ruination just lets him deny both her death AND his. . .in more ways than one.

[shiroyasha]

In the ruined king game showed some of Viego's mistreatment to Isolde, Illaoi even said "your love is toxic!"

[MrMackan]

I feel like the character is actually more interesting if Viego was actually a pretty good husband and a better guy before Isolde's death.

I feel like league has too many bad guys, and not enough tragic heroes.

So a king, forced to take too much responsibility at too early of an age, finding refuge and love in his wife. Then losing her and the cracks that she had helped plaster over starts to bring him and his kingdom down. Is a lot more interesting than "rapey king manipulates hot, uneducated peasant girl"

[papuchochoe]

I don't know if you saw Champion Insights about Gwen but there writers indicate that Isolde was really romanticizing Camavor (it was "Everything about her made by a girl who dreamed of one day going to the castle herself. And maybe one day they’d get that chance. Doll and maker would travel across the sea, experience royal life, and maybe, just maybe, marry the prince. And then the three would live happily ever after.") so I too really wonder if it was toxic or if she really wanted it and loved it at first ^^

[Goodheartless]

Doesn’t the maiden talk about Viego with reverence and awe? Maybe some pieces of Isolde love her and some don’t like Gwen and the one in senna? Love isn’t cut and dry so I imagine their romance was pretty nuanced