Does anyone outside the canon ever pay attention to those "X VILLAIN is actually a TERRIBLE PERSON. HE KILLED MY WIFE/DOG/MURDERED EVERYONE" posts that heroes always make when they realize x villain has either apped or has been there the whole time and the hero either just apped in or just noticed.
I know people bitch about it, but I play villains a lot and it happens to me in almost every game and I've very rarely had any drama come out of it, because most people just don't care.
The twist here is I honestly wouldn't mind drama so long as it's reasonable and not everyone and their dog raining hell on them without warning. A person with close CR to the hero wanting to confront them? Sure. Someone who has been close to MY character wanting to know if it's true or not? Awesome. Hell, I'd like to play out the subtle manipulations of having my Machiavellian character go "who? me? no" when confronted about it and manipulate everyone into believing the hero is a liar.
But I've never seen anyone really do much with it.
I guess to make this less a useless rant, tell me some of your horror stories/complaints about how hard it is PLAYING villains in games, anons.
How the fuck does 'shounen hero' equate to 'stupid dumbass' to so many RPers?
I play a young protagonist, but does that mean he would out the villain of his canon in a jamjar? Fuck no. He's smart enough to know it's a stupid idea and that it would only get him eyeballed and the villain would wiggle out of it.
He might warn a person or two most important to him, but he's just going to keep an eye on the guy personally.
It annoys me that every main character from an anime/video game/whatnot is getting dumped under this tagline and assumed way of thinking and tossed aside.
I always thought that "shounen heroes" referred to shounen heroes.
Just shounen heroes. Young boy leads specifically from shounen-targeted series. There is an archetype; exceptions too, but a definite archetype, and "shounen heroes" refers to those characters. Not "every main character from an anime/video game/whatnot."
Not even every anime, just shounen anime. You know, as the term implies.
wow i actually haven't seen a post like that in a long time... tbh though, my character doesn't do much with it either because they never interact with the characters in question so they don't really care until it starts impacting the game world, or they have no reason to 100% believe the heroes. my characters are pretty skeptical, they'd just as quickly assume the hero has a buttgrudge against the villain or something
i guess this is different for me because my character has never had solid cr with either the hero or the villain when these posts have gone up, so there's no reason for them to care
Doing it with mine too. It helps that I've partially fallen into the same trap the op's in, but the person who called out my character isn't very savory either (and kind of a jerk), so no one believes him or they don't care and when mine's been confronted, he's just been honest and polite and the other guy looks like a complete tool.
i've seen characters actually pay attention and take it seriously like... once? i've seen a handful of "told you so"s though
what was nice was having the reverse situation - a bunch of characters coming in after my character had established himself as a good guy, and having all their complaints brushed off with "he'd never do that!" sadly i never did get the chance to ~reveal his true colours~ beyond him giving less of a shit about being nice to people.
i once made a post that called out a villain, but my character loathed the villain's guts with a passion. not much came out of it since aside from like one person taking it seriously, but it didn't matter much in the end since the villain dropped after a while.
Depends on the characters, I think. One of mine has to take note of those if their CR does, but the others are more likely to ignore anything like that than they aren't.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)I know people bitch about it, but I play villains a lot and it happens to me in almost every game and I've very rarely had any drama come out of it, because most people just don't care.
The twist here is I honestly wouldn't mind drama so long as it's reasonable and not everyone and their dog raining hell on them without warning. A person with close CR to the hero wanting to confront them? Sure. Someone who has been close to MY character wanting to know if it's true or not? Awesome. Hell, I'd like to play out the subtle manipulations of having my Machiavellian character go "who? me? no" when confronted about it and manipulate everyone into believing the hero is a liar.
But I've never seen anyone really do much with it.
I guess to make this less a useless rant, tell me some of your horror stories/complaints about how hard it is PLAYING villains in games, anons.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)And once to Voldemort.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)I play a young protagonist, but does that mean he would out the villain of his canon in a jamjar? Fuck no. He's smart enough to know it's a stupid idea and that it would only get him eyeballed and the villain would wiggle out of it.
He might warn a person or two most important to him, but he's just going to keep an eye on the guy personally.
It annoys me that every main character from an anime/video game/whatnot is getting dumped under this tagline and assumed way of thinking and tossed aside.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 12:07 am (UTC)(link)Just shounen heroes. Young boy leads specifically from shounen-targeted series. There is an archetype; exceptions too, but a definite archetype, and "shounen heroes" refers to those characters. Not "every main character from an anime/video game/whatnot."
Not even every anime, just shounen anime. You know, as the term implies.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)i guess this is different for me because my character has never had solid cr with either the hero or the villain when these posts have gone up, so there's no reason for them to care
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)da
(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)Feels real good.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)what was nice was having the reverse situation - a bunch of characters coming in after my character had established himself as a good guy, and having all their complaints brushed off with "he'd never do that!" sadly i never did get the chance to ~reveal his true colours~ beyond him giving less of a shit about being nice to people.
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