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ItsMeLilyV
@ItsMeLilyV
Main character from Unicorn Overlord. He's got blue hair, he's wearing plate armor, and he's on a horse.

I have been having a recurring problem lately when I watch game directs.

Every time I see a trailer for a new epic, turn-based RPG, it's always about some forgettable fantasy or sci-fi warrior boy going "For honor... For my homeland... For Farugal..."

And I just. I just wish more of these authors were a little perverted. I wish they would give me some freaks!! I do not need another boy with a sword who loves his country and his bloodline. I need greedy sons of bitches. I need a woman with an dangerously obsessive motivation. I need a protagonist who's just kind of pathetic. I need some queers who have zero chill. Sure, sometimes we'll see this in the villains, but what about the heroes? All they do is whine about king and country and get a little sad sometimes when their friend is killed in battle before moving on. They're more dolls than human.

a picture of clive from FF16. he is wearing black and smoldering, figuratively and literally

it is the year of our lord 2023 and the main character from ff16 looks like this and is named clive. at least cloud wore purple

screenshot from Saga Emerald, shows two women, one in a cowboy hat and the other in a hijab. They're like a buddy cop duo??

Like, okay, credit where it's due - the new SaGa trailer was full of great character designs. It's got a boy who builds enthusiastic mannequins that serve as his personal fanbase. It's got a pop-idol-turned-missle-launching-robot. It's got a buddy cop duo starring a pugilist lady wearing a cowboy hat and another wearing a hijab and swinging around the minigun from TF2. Out of all the main characters, the most generic one is still a witch pretending to be a schoolgirl. I don't know yet how much flavor will go into the writing, but the point is, they have some style!! In a sea of honorable boys they stand out!

Bernadetta from Fire Emblem Three Houses. She's got a purple bob and she's staring up into space with her mouth agape. Hubert says 'how did you manage to faint while standing up...?' i love her so much

I still think about Fire Emblem: Three Houses all the time. It still has a hyperactive fic-writing fanbase, and it's entirely due to the characters. Sure, a LOT of them fight for their country, but they still stand out because they're all juggling trauma, mental illness, petty hatred, and shitty attitudes. They're unique! They're fun!! There's a reason radiostarkiller is out there still drawing Edeleth smut while Engage has already slipped into the past! Consider a series like Persona, where all the characters are gawky, horny teenagers, who think about porn and panic about friendships and struggle with anxiety and abandonment. Sure, the writing is frequently questionable, but at least it's memorable!

I Do Not Care About Your Boring Little Patriot, Give Me The Fuckups

I dunno. Maybe I'm being unfair. I don't really know what the writing in Unicorn Overlord is going to be like. I'm extrapolating from the narrator's tone and the focus in the trailer. Like, the artstyle is really strange and pretty. And there were some stylish character designs hidden in there. But jeez, I wish they'd stop trying to sell me on epic history nonsense!

anyway thank you for listening to me ramble on. imo if you write stories and inspiration is drying up, please consider reading this. i didn't write it, i just think it's a nice reminder


arachnixe
@arachnixe

Fully agreed with all of this. I want to finish this RPG of mine one of these years.


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in reply to @ItsMeLilyV's post:

maybe this is unfair but this is half of why i never played ff15. โ€œ4 normal guys in extremely generic modern clothesโ€. Like wheres my unusual fantasy playable charas? Edea? Red? Vivi? Auron and Vincent being chuuni? At least Wakka had a fuckin blitzball

Vanillaware has always done weirdo shit tho so i trust there will be sauce. Normal knight boys even help the sauce shine and are useful to bounce personalities off of

yeaa gosh honestly all of those characters stick out in my mind. And they had color!! Not just black or plate armor gray!

yea looking at the other stuff they've made I am probably just judging too much from the trailer, but boy the trailer just did not sing to me at all

This trailer was so painfully by-the-numbers I couldn't take it seriously, there isn't a single unique thing about the story presented in the trailer that I can actually recall. So painfully generic.

Kinda hit me like a brick compared to everything else in the direct too, the tone was so tryhard serious

Hell yea, pathetic grumpy fucks are great!! I want to write stuff like that too, main characters who are just a little... pathetic, lol. One of my favorite RPGs stars a hero who is simultaneously haughty, bored, and cowardly ~