- Dec 11, 2019
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Was enjoying it until the first time you get blackmailed into sex by "Knight" Tyrone. Stopped about the time the main character decides that "For her husband" she "has to" accept the offer of fucking another man.
When the threat a character has is, "I'll report that you let a target escape to our boss", it already is pretty flimsy when the main character, by her own words, doesn't care about her rank or reputation, just in completing her objective. But the supposed blackmail just becomes cartoonishly unbelievable and the main character becomes similarly idiotic when they don't refute this.
Like by all means, report to our boss that I let the target escape. I'll fill in the handy little detail that the choice was between letting one bandit escape and LETTING SAID BANDIT MURDER A CHILD.
If we're supposed to be working for cartoonishly evil freaks that think a child is a completely expendable, acceptable casualty in the face of stopping exactly one (1) normal bandit, then make it clear that they're evil. Don't make everyone besides Tyrone seem reasonable, because if he's the only one that thinks we made a mistake, and our character conveniently just forgets to mention what the stakes were to others, it makes said main character seem unbearable idiotic for no reason.
In short: a character that doesn't care about their reputation or rank cannot be blackmailed into sex under threat of their reputation or rank, especially not when the supposed mistake they made was saving a child's life.
Seriously, I'm still reeling from it. The actual, honest-to-god mistake our character is accused of is saving a child from having his throat slit. Given that in the moment our character just shouts over Tyrone's accusations of failure, saying that the child was more important, I thought this would be a case of Tyrone being easily put in his place as a bastard, not the fairly heroic MC instantly bending to his whims because she seems to genuinely think saving the child instead of stopping the bandit was an actual mistake that she can't bear to have Tyrone report.
When the threat a character has is, "I'll report that you let a target escape to our boss", it already is pretty flimsy when the main character, by her own words, doesn't care about her rank or reputation, just in completing her objective. But the supposed blackmail just becomes cartoonishly unbelievable and the main character becomes similarly idiotic when they don't refute this.
Like by all means, report to our boss that I let the target escape. I'll fill in the handy little detail that the choice was between letting one bandit escape and LETTING SAID BANDIT MURDER A CHILD.
If we're supposed to be working for cartoonishly evil freaks that think a child is a completely expendable, acceptable casualty in the face of stopping exactly one (1) normal bandit, then make it clear that they're evil. Don't make everyone besides Tyrone seem reasonable, because if he's the only one that thinks we made a mistake, and our character conveniently just forgets to mention what the stakes were to others, it makes said main character seem unbearable idiotic for no reason.
In short: a character that doesn't care about their reputation or rank cannot be blackmailed into sex under threat of their reputation or rank, especially not when the supposed mistake they made was saving a child's life.
Seriously, I'm still reeling from it. The actual, honest-to-god mistake our character is accused of is saving a child from having his throat slit. Given that in the moment our character just shouts over Tyrone's accusations of failure, saying that the child was more important, I thought this would be a case of Tyrone being easily put in his place as a bastard, not the fairly heroic MC instantly bending to his whims because she seems to genuinely think saving the child instead of stopping the bandit was an actual mistake that she can't bear to have Tyrone report.
