Someone wrote in [community profile] wankgate 2022-03-17 06:28 pm (UTC)

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

you seem to misunderstand the issue with wol rpers. it's not that they want npcs to be their character's friend or lover. it's not that they're goodie two shoes, or girls who are sweet but feisty, or carboy uses, as much as wg dunks on them. it's that wol players get so caught up on what they think is fun to play that they don't stop to think about whether it's fun for their rp character, and your wol is the perfect example of that attitude.

sure, it would be a lot of fun to write someone who isn't an all loving jrpg hero. but would your castmates enjoy it? because unless she only recently revealed what a terrible person she is npc players are going to wonder why the hell they got in so deep with her (and i mean a genuinely bad person who does bad things and harms innocent people, not some surly asshole who's mean but still does the right thing). alisaie players are going to wonder why she never punched her out until this thread. other scion players are going to wonder why she was even hired when there are other people with the echo. estinien and ysayle players are going to wonder why they didn't push her off a cliff while alphinaud wasn't looking and try to handle the plot themselves. people who play characters who were active in stormblood will wonder how this monster was able to unite people to rise up against the empire, while others will wonder why they just don't replace her with fordola. etc etc. sure, you can say your wol is still necessary because she's the best of the best, but that just leads to cr where npc players can do nothing but wring their hands and gnash their teeth over and over and over again. how is that fun to play out?

tl;dr you've created a character that requires your cr to be willing to twist canon and sit around doing nothing for it to work. if you really want to play a wol who's a bad person, find some way to give other players something to work with. make her a sleazebag who keeps her worst tendencies hidden away from friends and allies. make someone who's nice to most of the cast, but has no problem killing kobolds and baby dragons because she doesn't think they're real people. have someone who's self-righteous or hypocritical or a little too bloodthirsty, and one step away from having that twisted into a corruption arc. just give your castmates something to do.

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