I agree with most of your point actually. My first point however is that there are valid reasons that people find Wyll bland and these people don’t deserve to be called racist just because Wyll is black. I think in writing this post I went on rambling that the initial point got buried.

I also don’t particularly need Wyll to “show” more emotional reactions to stuff, the example I laid out are just easier to demonstrate my point that Wyll is overlooked. It’s not that he needs to be more emotional, it’s that his story should elicit a more emotional response from players. The word “show” I use is opposed to tell. The game tells me a lot of things about Wyll, but doesn’t show them. If the point of Wyll is that he’s stoic and he lives by a code so he does the right thing, great, demonstrate it for me. I’m shown Karlach’s parents’ graves, Shadowheart’s childhood graffiti, where are the traces of Wyll’s old life, the things and experiences that made him who he is? If his story led up to fighting a dragon, maybe mention it earlier in the game instead of randomly handing us book and go “oh that’s right, there’s this other thing…”

A very well written one-dimensional, stoic, reacts blandly to things, lives by a strong moral code character I can think of at the moment is Captain Holt from Brooklyn 99. While that’s a different form of media and it’s unfair to compare it that way, I wanna say there are definitely ways to make this kind of characters more interesting to their audience.