Hey, if they’re fine with it, more power to them. She’s just not an RO I’m ever gonna go after, that’s all.
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I… would caution you on that one. Love at Elevation is real bad about being overly pretentious, and it feels like the narrative is arguing with every choice you make. Playing that game got to feeling like a chore after a while.
But, as that’s off-topic, I’ll keep it at that.
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Well, thanks for telling me because it’s the exact kind of stuff I can’t stand.
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Talking about Prodigal, I kept imagining her as Hit Girl from Kickass for some reason.
Also reminded me of another RO problem I have: When the author cave to the fanbase to add a RO and try to make it YOUR problem as you play the route. Like the narrator borderline going ‘You having fun there ruining my perfect narrative and neglecting all the characters I like more?’, to which I always answer ‘Yes, thanks for asking’.
I can understand the frustration, especially since some users can get VERY hung up on it but don’t take it out on me just because I bought your game and ‘choose the wrong RO’.
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Absolutely, but I think an author should be able to ignore those demands, or learn to ignore them if they’re really against a RO (not saying this was the case here). Or try to see these wishes as the compliments they are. I mean, people wouldn’t wish for a character to be a RO if they didn’t enjoy them very much.
If you write and publish stories, fans will become passionate and voice their opinions and try to pull you in a thousand directions. No matter how you feel about it, it’s something you have to learn to handle, because it comes with the territory.
(I want to make it clear that I absolutely don’t support pressuring, threatening or insulting authors, that goes without saying, hopefully)
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Yeah, that’s more of what I meant when I said I felt for the SSW author, not that Mornie was a bad character to add, just that EVERYBODY was pushing them to do it.
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Lol wut. People asked for Mornie to be an RO???
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So far, she’s stuck in “optional flirt” territory more than a full RO, but yeah, people were really pushing for her to be added to the list. Even the author was confused.
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I wonder how authors can still be confused or surprised by that, it’s the same pattern every time for the same kind of characters.
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Man, I’m going to object to this characterisation like I always do when people crap on my boy Hades, the ONE dude from the main Greek pantheon that wasn’t a monumental piece of shit. He and Percy have about the one healthy relationship in mythology.
Someone who makes “Hitler but with more mindrape” an RO of their own volition doesn’t get to be confused about this.
Iris was one of the messenger of the gods, siding with them during their war with the titans. And she had a sister. Called Arke, who’s just like her. Except she sided with the Titans. For super fun fact, the Portuguese word for “rainbow” is “Arco-Iris”.
Seeing as we took a detour down the “Greeks deities everybody actually knows but think they don’t” road, Nike (you all know the name, don’t pretend you don’t) is the Greek goddess of victory.
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Humanity as a collective will always want something for bidden or what they can’t have so I don’t find it surprising at all
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Yeah, for everything that the ZD WIP gets right about Greek mythology (like, for example, I thought Iris/Rain Bowe was made up malarkey, but it turns out she’s actually a legit goddess, if a minor one in the scheme of things), there are still some moments where one might accuse the interpretation of Greek mythology of having stepped out of a Disney movie:
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It has yet to be mentioned that Zeus is a sexaholic fiend, or, really, for the narrative to touch on any of his faults; so far, he’s just been played up as, “he’s the guy in charge,” with no further extrapolation than that, probably so that Alya’s characterization as a child of Zeus doesn’t get weird by association
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Hermes, while still playing his role as messenger, acts like a pompous asshole when his mythology largely plays him up to be more of a wily trickster type (that said, poor Apemosyne can certainly attest to Hermes having his, uh, moments)
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The Hades kids all act like edgelords, apparently, even though Hades was largely a swell guy, and even his more questionable decisions were by and far more forgivable than the others of the main pantheon of Mount Olympus
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Sure, Kai is the only noted Poseidon kid right now, so she’s hardly a fair example, but she appears to have none of her father’s famously explosive temper
I can overlook a lot of it, though, because it’s fun to compare and contrast what I know versus what the author knows and see where the differences crop up.
But yeah, as far as Mor having to be an edgy ass because “muh dad is Hades,” that one just kinda makes me go, “really? Come on, give poor Hades a break already.”
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Well, I’ll be damned, I’ve gone and learned a thing!
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I really dislike canon ex-lovers in otherwise lgbt+ friendly works. Because that makes playing an entirely aroace character impossible. For the same reason I also dislike characters like Momoko. For being described as being found attractive by your character, even if your sexuality is incompatible.
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I mean, people can acknowledge that others are attractive, even if they, themselves, aren’t attracted to them (I’m ace/aro, but if a character is described as objectively good-looking, I don’t argue it), though if our previous discussions of Samurai of Hyuga are anything to go by, this is not the same situation.
(Although, this is more a discussion to be had in the Hated Mechanics thread, I think)
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I played Zeus’s Dilemma once a long time ago, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt, but I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to expect the children of Zeus and Poseidon to gain their personality traits simply by being related to them, especially if they were not raised by their godly fathers. Moreover, even if Hades is not an edgelord himself, his children still live in the Mortal World and have access to its media. I think any child knowing from a young age that their father is the King of the Underworld would have a greater than average chance of becoming an edgelord.
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Certainly, if we assume the story to be taking place at roughly the time the game Hades was made, then yeah, that tracks.
But yeah, that’s why I mentioned that it’s hardly a fair example to use Kai as evidence of having gotten Poseidon wrong, and why I assume most of Zeus’ issues were left out in order to not accidentally taint Alya’s character by proxy. The option is there to act against stereotype on purpose, and I know that’s what I’ve been doing with my character.
(And if we’re being honest, most any living person on earth would be considered to be acting against stereotype where Zeus is concerned. Emphasis on most, mind.)
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Honestly Kai reminded me of Percy in alot of ways, and the idea of a female Percy was way to good for her not to be my RO.
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Me being the eternal contrarian that I apparently am, I’m currently on the fast track to have a romance with my pillow at this rate, because I’ve been playing my character as the laziest piece of shit on earth who is refusing as hard as she can to participate in the prophecy out of spite for having been dragged along in the first place when all she wanted to do was take naps and watch Netflix.
Funny story: if you refuse hard enough, Iris eventually hijacks your brain and forces you to say yes.
It me, I’m the bad RO.
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I did wonder why none of the options were “So what if Zeus is missing? He’s probably off fucking mortals. He does that a lot.”
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