Quote Originally Posted by Reokudo View Post
Technicalities. Your character is a soulless puppet because giving your character a personality would remove the feeling that its you. Imagine they made your character an overly aggressive moron who gets blown up all the time. You'd sit there like "That's not what I'd do!" SE can only do so much.
Whatever our characters are from the humblest white mage to the most arrogant dragoon, they are all fighters, so the idea that a character at this stage in the plot would merely submit to arrest in the most obvious of trap conspiracies ever completely destroys any connection with my character.