Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160721222431/@comment-14138255-20160824234218

Phantomlink959 wrote: WC-83 wrote:

In the character's defense:

1. She did not choose to attend Beacon, her parents had her go, believing it would be more prestigious than Atlas. She was sent to combat school by them too, but she merely assumed she would enlist in the military, again, as a combat engineer.

2. Sapphire's anxiety is more social in nature. She does fairly well (or at least, below average, but decent enough) when fighting the Grimm.

I'm not saying you shouldn't write characters with anxiety, just look deeper into how people with anxiety function.

One thing you should ALWAYS do when writing any charcter with some sort of mental or emotional issue is research how it works. Get to know the specifics of it.

Now, my question is this; are her parents truly so neglectful that they would force a girl with severe social anxiety out of her mental/emotional comfort zone, fly her half way across the planet, and make her co-habitate in close quarters with three total strangers?

That's like a living hell for someone with social anxiety; and they should understand that. Otherwise they're just bad parents.

Even more so, they are effectively forcing the child into a career where her life will be constantly in danger.

Without her full knowledge or informed consent. The original idea was that she was fairly normal (albeit with some average level of anxiety), with the problems really coming from leaving Atlas and her boyfriend (who did not make it into the final cut of the character's page). I never said her parents were good, more overly reliant on public image, which is still bad though, completely neglectful. I also never planned on characterising them either. From what I've written, she'd be too meek to object to their desire to send her to Beacon (if she lived, she might have built up the confidence to call them out on it). I don't feel like the parents are important, just assume the dad's the kind of person who doesn't believe in things like nervous breakdowns (and still calls PTSD "Shell Shock")

On a seperate note, I'm actually surprised no one mentioned the Youtube link. I quite like the song, it's one of those songs you can whip out if someone disses video games as an art form (or because you feel like listening to it).