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[Midareyukki]

I never did understand the whole "Good Faith/Bad Faith" Argument thing XD.

Dude, whenever something happens in these forums, it's usually because people can't let go the fact that they don't like someone. Half the criticisms pointed to Aveyond Dreams are really just a matter of going back and reading what he said.
Take the other guy who kept pointing out him doing gross generalizations. Yes, he shouldn't do that, but at the same time it's no secret in the past few months that there have been threads calling the plot of the game all sorts of stuff. So... yeah, some people do take issue with the plot, with varying intensity.
And instead of people calming down and just disagreeing with him, accepting that the guy likely isn't going to change his mind, people just jump in to say stuff that they themselves aren't aware of.
Half the time someone says one wrong thing, it wasn't to insult or do stuff out of disrespect, boom, everyone drops their manners. It's bizarre.

As for Krile's changes, as Boblawblah said,

I am concerned with how they're going to change her, because as people have noted, she WILL have to change to play a more leading role. Suddenly making her clumsy, or goofy is going to come across way too ham-fisted, I'm not sure how they're going to gradually change her without making it seem like Lyse 2.0 "KRILE IS NOW IMPORTANT, YOU LIKE HER". We'll have to wait and see.

this is what I mean by "remains to be seen". Because I'm aware of it, you're aware of it, Boblawblah is aware of it, other people are. And we hope Square is as well. But they're the ones who need to act on it, not us, we don't write the plot.

Does she need to change to be a more active member of the party? She might get more story detail about her, but not everyone in the party needs to be incredibly interesting, either. She can get built up as a character but there's nothing wrong with her current state.

Not "wrong", but more like "a lot of what happened to her got neglected for so long, we haven't gotten a chance to explore her, and after this long it feels like it's too little too late".

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Yeah, I understand. In fact, if anything, I'd say male characters aren't allowed to be masculine tough guys. When they are, they're like Thancred: confident, stoic and snarky, almost always serious and deadpan. We have a race characterised by being large and bulky, and another that's characterised by being chivalrous yet feral.

Yet they aren't doing anything with these. Roegadyn especially, as the only Roes got dead or monk'd, in contrast to all the others who are just outright villainous. Despite me saying that characters are meant to fill and then explore tropes so they don't feel bland, allow me to use a variant of the World of Hats trope: have these characters with their racial stereotypes. Allow a Roegadyn to be large and masculine, allow a female Roegadyn to be beautiful is she wants, allow a Hrothgar to be chivalrous (like Runar) and feral (like... eh... D-Dabog I guess???? More like "Like our emotes" :P). Make a character out of that, and rather than subvert it, show why those traits are actually endearing and good for the plot in general. Rather than just making them walking caricatures in the background and only giving relevance if they escape the mold.