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[HighlanderClone]

Wuk Lamat is a good character and the story was enjoyable

I find it funny how every time someone defends the story they cannot actually explain why Wuk Lamat is a well-written character beyond "good" or "I liked it though".

Meanwhile the critiques went in-depth and explained exactly why we thought the characterization was poor.

[Striker44]

I find it funny how every time someone defends the story they cannot actually explain why Wuk Lamat is a well-written character beyond "good" or "I liked it though".

Meanwhile the critiques went in-depth and explained exactly why we thought the characterization was poor.

Umm...what? People have given plenty of explanations why they like Wuk Lamat as a character. The ones I see most often on here are her growth arc from someone who had empathy but didn't realize it was useful, skills but little confidence, a need for false bravado, etc., to someone who recognized the value her empathy brings, confidence but still positively tempered by humility, the ability to know when she can trust people, be honest, and let her guard down, etc.. That's typically presented alongside the counter-arcs for characters like Koana who were over-confident and didn't realize there were things they were missing.

Just because you might choose to ignore the analyses people give doesn't make it any less existent. But ignoring it and then claiming it doesn't exist is just shallow.

That's almost like, your opinion

I find it interesting you never post this as a response to people saying negative things about DT. Heck, there's several right here in this thread...

I remember back in EW, the forums were flooded with positive threads, did you have problem with that? Or you only take issue when it's negative?

Wait, what? Seriously. What planet did we move to? Back in EW, this was forum was just as flooded with negative threads, and the few positive ones that would pop up from time to time would get invaded by the echo chamber just like now. Remember the whole big thing about the multi-hundred page thread bashing EW's story? Seriously, what?

Come to think of it, Dawntrail would have been so interesting if it had to do with each of the Scions doing just that, finding their own place, going off to follow their own path, going to do their own thing, helping them all say goodbye. It would give that "distant" feeling to a vacation arc. Like a bittersweet sunset, but it's a sunset you all earned.

Except that's just not going to happen. The issue an idea like that faces is that the Scions are extremely popular. There's a reason they can't even bring themselves to "kill off" even one of them at this point. There's a wide world (aka playerbase) out there that's very different from this little forum. The Scions are there with us for good. It's our story as a group, not just the WoL as an individual.