Where is all of this stuff about Kiel being a liar coming from? It’s totally not based on anything. Word for word, this is what she says:
Kiel: Thank you for answering my summons. I just learned that an Aetherblade airship loaded with plunder from Lion’s Arch went down nearby.
Foecrush: It’s our lucky day. What are your orders, Cap’n?
Kiel: Those pirates will want their loot back. When they come for it, we’ll be there to greet them. Go secure that treasure so we can return it to its rightful owners.
Foecrush: Wait, to its rightful… Cap’n, begging your pardon, but wouldn’t your campaign be better served if we used that—
Kiel: Belay that talk, mister. I won’t build our campaign on the backs of victims.
Kiel: Now, I’m ordering you to protect those valuables at all cost. I’ll send relief soon.
After event
Kiel: Report, sailor. What’s the situation?
Foecrush: It was hairy, Cap’n! Those Aetherblades threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at us!
Kiel: Well, you’re here, so you must have accomplished what I asked, yes?
Foecrush: (laughs) Even their worst sink wasn’t enough to stop us. We managed to keep the Lion’s share of the booty.
Kiel: Oh you’re so…excellent work. Excellent work everyone. Let’s get that haul back where it belongs, shall we?
Both the tone and content of what she says clearly suggests that in fact she is not using the treasure stolen back from the Aetherblades for her campaign, much to the chagrin of Foecrush, and is rather giving it back to whomever it was stolen from. Her stutter in speech is questionable, but it’s more likely it’s a sign of her affection for her first mate, or at the very least is conceivable to be a sign of affection for her first mate. If you missed it, the dialogue has not been exactly subtle in this game—was anyone surprised when Mai Trinh was the culprit of the assassination? Her manner of speech completely gave it away.
The assumption that Evon, the scoundrel, is somehow more trustworthy because you don’t have to invent deceit in his utterances to come to the conclusion it’s there is frankly silly. What if he’s not going to drop the prices of Black Lion Keys? What if that’s a two-faced lie? This question is just as completely unfounded and logically useless as calling Kiel a liar without a scrap of evidence, and completely in defiance of her quite recent representation in the game’s lore.
As to Evon being a more interesting candidate, to each his own. If you like the stereotypical boring self-interested sociopath more than the stereotypical boring good person, I guess that’s on you. However, to actively support a scoundrel for the sake of your own entertainment seems dishonest to the game world, and suggests that one does not value it or its fictional denizens—which is at odds with how I experience the game. I do not perform actions to purposely call calamity upon the characters of this game; that’s the job of the developers. I save them from said calamity.
That said, we won’t know what happens until it happens in the game, and to assume that Evon’s role in the story will be superior to Kiel’s is a reflection of the opinions of the assumer, founded on nothing and as logically useless as me suggesting that those who support Evon are sociopathic. Which I am totally suggesting ^-^
And lastly, on the pirate nonsense:
Beside the point, do you really want a softy running a city of pirates? That’s like saying the Charr should make a carebear their leader because he’s more cuddly.
Who are any of us to decide what a pirate of Lion’s Arch, set as it is within the world of Tyria, should or shouldn’t be? Or more appropriately, why should I or anyone else care? Or, to be more snarky, who do you think you are? Why is it that Kiel being a decent human being [or living being, for the sake of comparison with Evon] somehow suggests that she’s a sissy or soft? Why is empathy a negative trait for any living thing? The pseudo-machismo at the heart of these assumptions is and always has been disgusting to me, and is [in my quite sanctimonious opinion] problematic in not just the videogame fandom, but a huge portion of our collective human culture.