User blog comment:DeadpoolN7/Anyone Else Think Javik is the best character in terms of dialogue/@comment-1679409-20121012192058

I'm a bit ambivalent on Javik, but he's also grown on me. If you've ever watched Survivor, you may know Russell Hantz. He's the guy that, among other things, said he'd lost his German shepherd during Hurricane Katrina when he didn't even experience it, burned people's socks, etc. I hated him at first but then grew to really like him.

It's kind of the same way with Javik. At first, I was a lot like TW6464. I thought he was a pompous jackass. I so wanted to be able to say something like, "Yeah, Protheans were so great? So, where are they now?" After the turian Councilor ("Ah, yes, Reapers!"), Javik was the character I most wanted to put in his place. Yet, his trolling can be really funny at times ("As opposed to a fake, dead one?") and I like his discussions about the history of the galaxy. And the psychology of the character is quite interesting, in that I wonder how much of it is just the horror he's experienced something that makes him a tragic ("Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honour matters.")  Thus, he's kind of like Jack in that he's more of a tragic character (who can be softened a bit at the end) and less like the whiny and rigid Fenris from Dragon Age II who keeps going on and on about how bad mages are (despite that fact that my mage Hawke kept helping him).