Those sound like stupid plans to me :/
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And that's fine. I will give you this much, it probably wasn't the best idea. But see, when you go OUT OF YOUR WAY TO BERATE THAT PLAYER AFTERWARDS, you've crossed a line you don't need to be crossing. Are you the sort of person that flames baddies that are actually trying at the end of a League game? Because that's just being the worst kind of person.
Snipped things a bit because I had no room to reply.
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You've got to remember that while Valerian tries really hard to do the right thing, he's fallible. The Shao thing was him being really really angry at the fact that Shao was collapsing under the weight of incompetence and taking it out on a symbol of Shao (the officer).
The other thing comes from the fact that the LeShay destroyed his world. You have to remember that, had they not been so damn power-hungry, they wouldn't have genocided humanity and filled Rael and Aluxial with eternal hatred for them. The only LeShays we'd met before were power-hungry, demented douchebags. Valerian wasn't very convinced Song was like them, but the rest of her race was an entirely different story. Can you imagine what might have happened if the LeShay had been alive and just as they were in the old world? Worse, if they were like that and we'd sworn not to tell anyone about their secret hideout? The thought was just intolerable to Valerian. That'd be just like letting Rael back in, in effect, and could not be allowed to happen. Flat out. He needed to know they weren't mosnters, and Song's feelings were not relevant. If a LeShay invasion dropped out of nowhere and caused millions of deaths and incredible amounts of suffering to the innocents of the world, Val would have no one to blame but himself.
(And on a different note, Valerian's final, utopic goal is to create a paradise, for himself and all others. Selfishly, he also wanted to go in to see that proclaimed paradise. He desperately wanted to believe such a beautiful place existed, but his past experiences with how his dreams met the world left him too jaded to believe unless he saw it for himself. There's also that.)
My annoyance afterward was because I felt like I had a lead I wanted to follow for the main quest. Having to go on a lengthy rescue mission put a gigantic cramp on those plans, which is why I was so moody. It's still a fair point that I shouldn't have insisted for so long though.
More on my next post.
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Twostuck, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/63360266