Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161222164303/@comment-25266931-20161225011315

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: By the same logic, so does your beloved Adam Taurus, who is pretty much worse than Raven. You're right. I've accepted that. At first I thought Adam was a dark hero on the wrong side of the law. Now I see he's just a murderous bitter zealot. Also "beloved" is going a bit far. I thought he was cool but as soon as that season finale of season 3 aired I lost most of my respect for him.

Using tropes and even deconstruction of tropes and cliches seems like time not well spent. If you know something's been done often, why not try to do something different instead of embrace a the same road others have traveled. If the apex epic final battle is two warriors in a rainstorm on a cliff, and it's been done dozens of times, I wouldn't do it again. And I would lampshade it. I would flat out never do it. That way when some one reads my work they can say "oh they didn't do the same thing I've seen before. I legit don't know what's going to happen next!" It's not "wrong" to use tropes and cliches, I just personally don't like it.

Raven, Adam, Salem and her whole group, all of them deserve death slow and cruel. But that doesn't mean I don't respect them enough not to give them their time in the story. I like Sephiroth and Kefka but I still know both deserved to die. The same with Raven. Like with Adam I respect her skill and resolve, but her way of life makes me want to hurt her for all the people she's hurt.