#wisely written characters

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

listen we all know who im obsessed with. it doesn't take rocket science to figure it out. but i've got to say. roy kent truly is just. such a character. truly a stunning example of peak blorbo material. just look at him. look at everything about him. that sure is. a guy. and not in the like generic "that's just a guy" way in the indescribable "wow. what a guy" way. what a guy. i love him

#looks at icon looks at header looks at url looks at everything ive ever written yeah it's not exactly a mystery who my blorbo is #roy kent #truly i just. like again we know who im obsessed with #but sometimes i just really get slammed with 'oh yeah roy fucking ROCKS i LOVE that guy' #i mean most of the characters in ted lasso are great tbh #but roy really is. wow <3 #similarly jamie isn't really my type--character-wise the kind of character i tend to latch onto--but like. #autism be damned that boy can babygirl. hot damn

[user-name-h3re]

If Nurf ever does ONE horrible thing or ever so slightly CONSIDERS hurting Preston in the new episodes i'm going to projectile vomit and gouge my eyes out the ENTIRE REASON HE WENT TO CAMP WAS TO BE BETTER WHY IS HE THE ONLY ONE THATS HASN'T GOTTEN BETTER WH-

#camp camp #cc nurf #the concept of this character is so good but it's so apparent the crew does not give a shit about him #like come ooooooon #i love the show to death and i get that he's not supposed to be cared about because he's a background character #but he really went from a bully who turned out to be suprisingly sensitive and self aware to a steretypical cartoon bully who says #big words sometimes #like i know he wasn't going to get a big amazingly written emotional character development but even comedy wise it's just lazy #the main reason i loved thks character was because he was hilarious and unique and how he's neither of those #i knoooow i'm going to hate him so much during the up coming episodes and i'm bracing myself for that #venting #uuugh

[rutadales]

they fucking killed him before he got to see if sonic 3 (coming to theaters December 20, 2024) was a faithful adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 (available on steam right now for 9.99) ....

#c!dream #dreblr #root doodles #In the panel with punz he's explaining how charmy was originally written to be like. very stotic and mature #bc in his original characters description that's how he was described so that's how they wrote him in the Archie comics #but then when he showed up in the mainline games and got more personality he was very childlike and goofy #And Sega wanted charmy in the comics to match charmy in the games especially as they drifted further and further apart personality wise #so. the writing team. Gave Cha.rmy the bee. Brain damage. #fucking wild. I think about this like 6 times a day.

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i really want people to realize that i don’t hate lip or fiona because i think people may be starting to think that. lip’s my third favorite gallagher, i don’t like his actions and i personally believe he’s a misogynist but he is also one of the best written characters on the show

#fiona’s writing isn’t as good #it’s fine but emmy’s acting makes it better #lip and debbie are probably the most well written if you ask me #like as much as ian is my favorite they make him say so many ooc things and often use him just to mock queer people #and his writing started off pretty good but it got to a point where it seemed sloppier #i think that cameron’s acting and the gallavich romance plot really helped fix the mistakes the writers made with him #carl and liam are probably the worst writing wise because carl is literally just used for comedic relief half the time #as for liam he barely spoke for 7 seasons and they never understood what to do with him #but debbie and lip are solid characters and all of their actions make perfect sense considering what they endured #and while this also applies to characters like ian and fiona- as i said their writing tends to be a little weirder #just my opinion tho and it isn’t slander of anyone but john wells #shameless #lip gallagher #fiona gallagher

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Whatever you say about the X-men movies I will always respect James Mcavoy's acting choices as professor X

(look, Sir Patrick Stewart will always be iconic and James clearly had big shoes to fill) I just love how he took one look at this wise, powerful and well loved character and said fuck it I’m playing him young so I’m going to do what I want, and he was so right for that

case in point

In First Class Charles was a drunk, egoistic, nerdy and obnoxious yet charming trust fund kid who was not above cheap telepathy tricks to get a date

In DOFP he was a drug addict and a complete asshole, who only gave a shit about where he could get his next hit

In apocalypse I think he just went fuck this, I’m just going to be that hot, DILF English lit teacher who all the nerds and gays imprint and crush on

In dark phoenix (yeah me neither) he was literally said "Charles is a rich, manipulative, power hungry bastard who masquerades as a kind soul"

He also made Charles at least 75% gayer (if that's even possible)

#charles xavier #sir patrick stewart #james mcavoy #the contrast is sending me #i fucking love his interpretation #that man really had the most fun playing charles didn't he #it is also how the character was written #and the script #but he did say he wanted to make prof x different from what we know him to be #as in show more of his flaws because he played him before he was old and wise #and he described charles in dark phoenix as a politician #proffesor x #xmen #x men movies #xmen first class #dark phoenix #xmen days of future past #xmen apocalypse #those xmen movies are a mixed bag really #morally grey professor x for the win

[yugiohio]

MJF beat Kenny Omega's streak to become the longest reigning AEW World Champion without his championship belt. Without his best friend. Without his ring or the string from the turnbuckle; clean. He won clean. He's more than just a scumbag: He's the champion Kenny Omega knew he could be and the champion we knew he could be. But most importantly, he's becoming the champion that he always wanted to be but was too afraid to strive for. He's starting to see that he's enough, that we actually like him for him. We recognize his growth and cheer him on. He's still a scumbag. But he's OUR scumbag.

#mjf #maxwell jacob friedman #aew #aew dynamite #aew rampage #aew collision #aew world championship #wrestling #wrasslin #text post #i just love him so much #he's so compelling and talented #his ring work is phenomenal and crisp #his promo skills are beyond charismatic...like idk if there's a word for people like mjf and ricky starks #his commitment to kayfabe and dedication to his craft is exemplary. i would model my entire career after him if i was an upcoming wrestler #his character? the choices he makes acting wise? he's top notch. #anyway i can mark out in the tags forever or at least until tumblr says ive hit the limit on tags. just know that I'm so proud of him #and i just cant believe i get to watch a performer of his caliber in real time. to see this character evolve so much in mere months...yeah #how many times have i written a post like this lmao

[calkale]

not to bring this up AGAIN but i cant believe they did that to ilsa

#watching fallout and im trying to pretend mi7 doesnt exist but 😬😬😬😬 #literally how do you ruin a character that badly #shes my fav mi character and one of my favourite female characters in general cause shes written so well #and then that happened 🙄 #obviously mcq doesn’t deserve the hate he got for it but also i hope he knows what he did was shitty #it doesnt make sense story wise #its a horrible ending for her character #and its even worse if she comes back in the next movie thats awful writing no matter what #AND he just replaced her with some generic female character who had to be saved countless times throughout the movie 😐 #not to mention the way he and tom talked about ilsa and how much work they put into her character in rogue nation and fallout #I DONT GET IT WHY THROW THAT ALL AWAY #im so upset #mi #ilsa faust

[capn-twitchery]

sighs longingly and stares out to sea..........i miss the second sacristan

why did i get attached to an npc who said zero words and appeared for 10% of a single storyline.........how could this happen to me

#fbg i was gonna do the first oc canon ship i've ever done in my entire life #i maybe still will if i can think of anything but i got Nothing yet #i wish i had a Smidge of dialogue to go off of. a thought process. a written note. i have nothing. how could fbg do this to me #how could you hand me a character that vibes wise is 100% for me. and setting wise is 1000% for me also #and give me nothing to build on. fbg why would you hurt me specifically #I KNOW HE WON'T COME BACK EITHER..........EVOLUTION IS DONE #i miss him. and his 1000 hands #fredspeaks #why can't my brain latch onto a character who i can do things with. wtf

[stopthatfool]

in top gun meta hell rn. what the fuck am i doing in top gun meta hell. i don't think i'm supposed to be thinking so hard about this movie. it's not designed for this.

#me debating the agency of Ice's character rn #“can Ice's character truly exist outside of maverick” technically yes.. but plot wise.. no. #me about ice: #“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?” #thinking about ice's “motives” like he's a fucking bond villain or something #my drafts are just full of half written ice essays about his “agency” #somewhere in my notebook it says “if mav left the navy ice would turn to ash” #my room is probably the messiest its been in two years and i'm sitting here trying to verbalize why Ice's career seemed so hinged on mav #TOP GUN META HELL! #top gun #iceman #tom iceman kazansky #maverick #stopthatfool goes crazy and explodes #seriously. im gonna explode. #sorry needed to get this out of my system

[graveyard-tales]

Jason was drugged. So very drugged. Bruce could think of a handful of drugs but it was dangerous to speculate until he sees some blood work. Blood work that they’ll hopefully be able to get started as soon as they enter the cave. Until he found out Jason was in the clear, either the drug running out of his system of Bruce driving it out himself, Jason was completely out of it. 

Whatever Jason was dosed with hit him hard. Fast enough that he hadn’t made it home but just slow enough that he was able wedged himself between a wall and an air unit on the roof just blocks where his fight took place. How Jason was drugged was yet to be determined. His helmet was missing, lost in the fray or caught without it on, Bruce didn’t know. But he couldn’t rule out injections regardless, it just meant a gas was plausible. 

Jason hadn’t been much help in getting answers but he didn’t fight being pulled into the Batmobile. A slightly daunting process as Bruce had to practically carry Jason off the roof to do so. This quiet and malleable demeanor was so unlike the brash, sharp and frustratingly stubborn man that made up Bruce’s son. Jason didn’t like to be coddled, he acted like he was above the need for intimate gestures. Letting Bruce help take his weight to safely was a hard pass on a good day. So Bruce was reasonably caught off guard not only by the miniscule resistance but what happened before Bruce even had the chance to start the car. 

As soon as Bruce was settled in his seat, after buckling Jason in, Bruce froze. Jason had leaned over, resting his head onto Bruce’s shoulder. In a manner that almost seemed intentional. Jason sighed and relaxed his weight against Bruce. 

“I was a good robin.”

It was so soft and bordering incoherent but it shot through Bruce’s brain like Jason fired it from his gun. He swallowed and held a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel. A hundred thoughts and old pains ran through him. He let himself remain in the moment, to stew in the thoughts before he sighed deeply out his nose and relaxed his grip. Slowly, trying not to jostle Jason too much, Bruce brought his arm around him and ran his fingers through Jason’s sweaty hair. 

“Yes, you were.”

#DC #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Jason Todd #trying these characters out for the first time #super vague #but i couldn't get jason knowing he was a good robin out of my head #but believing that bruce doesn't think so #that bruce at times tries to trick himself into believing other wise #because it's easier #it's harder #memories warp over time #and it's hard to know what exactly was real anymore #anywayyyys #hadn't written in a good long while #so ofc it's 1am #time to sleep #lol

[userchappell]

tell me if you heard this film before: a film that takes place in the 2010s, where a teenager around seventeen/eighteen years old, who is not a fan of the popular crowd and steers clear of it, also suffers from parental issues with one dead parent they were more closer too (bonus points if they saw them die in a car that they're also in) and having a struggling relationship with their other parent. feeling as if everyone is against them, and see them as a freak, outsider, etc and feeling alone until enters someone they never really had a conversation with before, as they start bonding and creating a connection, making them feel less alone and that said teenager starts growing more as a character and we can't help but sympathize for them, even though they have said some out of pocket stuff to other people but that's not the point

#also the fact their names are dean and nadine like it's so close #these two would get along so heavily well. it is insane #also i believe dean would get into a fight with darian AND win especially since he did kill a mountain lion on that island #also I know these films are entirely different genres. but these characters are the same TO ME. #and quality wise.... teos is a much better written and directed film than blta but my points still stands #blue lagoon: the awakening #the edge of seventeen #dean mcmullen #nadine franklin #brenton thwaites #hailee steinfeld #jaiden rants

[hoolay-boobs]

They are the Perfect Girls™️ of Ever After High

#it’s not my personal opinion #they’re just the most intriguing empowering and well-written girlies of the show #and it’s definitely not a personal opinion bc guess what? not all of these are even my favourites #I’ve turned off my Mari™️ brain and turned on my Film Critic™️ brain #as someone who has been assigned to deconstructing plots and characters in literature at university level courses #and I can say quality wise over personal taste #these are the superstars #darling charming #raven queen #lizzie hearts #briar beauty #ever after high #eah #ever after high memes #eah memes #ever after high raven queen #ever after high darling charming #ever after high briar beauty #ever after high lizzie hearts #way too wonderland #dragon games #legacy day #thronecoming #epic winter #wholesome memes

[bookwyrminspiration]

He/him marella and Sophie is so real

Guess what! Found another instance of he/him Sophie today! Chapter 8 is also 500 words longer but that's not important.

Listen. I understand why it is the way it is, but I think it's so cruel we don't have extravagant elf genders and pronouns. You're telling me they're just limited to 2 with boring constrictive presentations?

I think every single elf should have their own unique gender that makes them super super special and better than everyone else--wait. You know how elven families have their own crests/symbols? What if they did that with genders. Every elven family has their own gender that their kids inherit--but not always, sometimes there's a wild card.

Okay, these ideas are very underdeveloped, but the point is I wanna make this series even queerer than we already make it

#kotlc #quil's queries #the-one-and-only-aroace #I don't think i've written any keeper fics with characters who are queer gender-wise #i've done queer attraction ships #and undefined relationships #(one of my personal favorites) #but I don't think I've fucked with gender...which is odd considering just how genderfucked I am #<- the concept of gender literally doesn't apply to me

[nnthyperfixation]

Okay but the fact that Gawain shares so many traits with Escanor and Merlin, from appearance to personality and everything else. Were it not for his death in the Demon King arc I would totally buy that she's their daughter.

More under cut (4KoTA chapter 107 spoilers ahead)

First we see her using the same magic with Escanor (or more like, Mael's grace, but you know what I mean).

Not only that, but her power has a time limit as well. Once she runs out of magic, she will turn from a muscular mature-looking woman to a small girl. Just like how Escanor is a strong hunk when it's daytime, but turn into a weak and skinny man at night. It is probable that Sunshine applies different after-effects depends on who the user is.

Does this even need saying. Her arrogant attitude. Chastising others for "ruining her romance and mood".

She also has a habit of saying coquettish and poetic things towards the woman (or women) she likes. I'm seeing parallels here.

Now onto Merlin parallels. It is obvious from the very first look that she vaguely resembles Merlin with her hair and eye. Not only that, she also possesses similar powers with Merlin, Absolute Cancel, Teleportation, and Levitation as she tends to float freely in the air in her child form.

Still, her personality is more similar to Escanor's. The other thing that resembles Merlin in her is probably her love for pudding and insisting her reward to be a whole barrel of pudding, which could be counts as some form of gluttony, I guess.

That was until chapter 107 came out.

Now we definitely see Merlin in her. We see her as a lost child who seeks answers just like Merlin's hunger for knowledge. Merlin left the sins to go with Arthur in order to find the answer of chaos and fill the void in her heart, Gawain left Arthur to go with the knights in order to find the answer of who she is. Sweet sweet parallels.

Also the fact that her outfit is a literal fusion of Escanor's and Merlin's. Like Nakaba literally copy pasted their outfits onto her

And the fact that the resemblance is recognized by Meliodas, their old comrade, too! Nakaba is definitely cooking something with her I can tell.

#i think gawain is my favourite character in 4kota #maybe im shipping escalin too much #but i really like her personality #she's pretty well written and an interesting character lore-wise #its really interesting how she has no idea who her mother is #this has something to do with merlin #i don't think merlin is her mother but was probably her master/mentor at some point #i mean how else did she learn absolute cancel #i think the identity of her mother may play a major plot point later on #4kota #four knights of the apocalypse #escanor #merlin nnt #nanatsu no taizai #seven deadly sins #7ds #4kota spoilers

[jessamine-rose]

/vent post/

#jessamine rambles #before i start. pls keep in mind that this is fully subjective and could just be a 'me' problem. i just want to get this off my chest #ngl i've been contemplating on whether i want to stop playing obey me. both the og game and nightbringer #idk i've been playing the game since its first month and while it's given me a lot of joy + memories + chances to befriend other ppl. i'm #pretty burned out. not to mention TIRED of my consistent disappointment with the game #the main story.....where do i start?? i actually enjoyed s1-s3 despite my qualms with the fillers and pacing but s4 disappointed me. i was #rlly looking forward to simeon's storyline and the new characters but ultimately. the devs tried to squeeze too many things into one season #not to mention that there is a notable difference in how the characters are written. i.e. beel's hunger and asmo's beauty #being watered down to running gags instead of the complexities explored in the old dg stories and chara songs #gameplay-wise. i was there when the devs raised the rewards price of the event urs and removed the demon ssrs completely #but nightbringer was the last straw for me. the amount of time it takes to grind for two games. knowing that the og app has essentially bee #abandoned by the devs?? not to mention that while the plot is interesting. i haven't touched the main story ever since the coma arc #i will give credit to the devs for improving the event stories by choosing to focus on 1-2 demons. but it has always felt like a quantity > #quality situation. esp if i were to compare it to my other fandoms #it also doesn't help that i'm currently at a point of my life where i'm questioning if i could use my time on obm for better things #seeing how the game is giving me less reasons to believe it is worth my time #idk this may also be a short-term phase since i DID get back into twst after a long hiatus and i recently got into whb #which btw has felt like a breath of fresh air despite my frustrations with the bugs and current gacha #but yeahhhh........as much as i love the obm characters and fanfics. i'm just tired #at this point i feel like the only reason why i still play the game is due to the nostalgia and so i don't waste the years of grinding #aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #this is what i get for being the type of player who only plays a few games so they can rlly dedicate their time and passion to it #that's all