Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-25266931-20161113022505

@ Someone: Exist Archive is a Valkyrie Profile style game on PS4 and PS Vita right now. About people who were killed and dragged to another world because a corrpt god was trying to use their bodies to resurrected himself. Amatsume killed them and dragged them to the world but did not do it out of evil. She did it to prevent the evil the god would do. Over the course of the game she is usually talking really politely and otherworldly like a goddess yet blunt. And her dialogue changes as you interact with her. But from the average joes and janes' POVs she comes off as a strange enigma they want to just get away from.

@ Highcastle: The entire work doesn't become trite, I just think that trait in a character is trite and wastes time better spent saving lives. I wish more characters would steel themselves for those moments before the story even opens up rather than wait thru the moments.

@ WC-83: I know the version of Holmes you're speaking of. And while that's good, I'm talking about a character more like good person who just seems unapproachable. It's hard to explain. Let's say Final Fantasy 7 never existed. Instead what if there was a game staring Sephiroth with his same mannerism but sane and a hero and the lead. He's jarring to both the cast of NPCs and the player. You give pause to how inhumane this character can appear due to his powers and intelligence and the fear he strikes in mankind and monster. Yet I find that attractive. I don't need to understand the character or relate to him. He's becomes the huge question mark. Like a dark room you haven't walked into before. The unknown. That's the kind of heroes I like. You get to know them but part of them is always out of reach. Part of them is always this inconprehensible mystery.

@ Alhazard: Okay, what you said about Batman hits home. I get that. I remember feeling sorry for him in that series. All his hard work and Gotham wasn't save and he still ended up old and gray and alone after driving away all his friends and partners. That said, it doesn't have to be that way. Batman's problem was for all his genius and compassion for the innocent, he was too hard on himself and his partners. If he allowed a few more kind words to them they would care about him more and would walk out on him so much when he was being stubborn or abrassive. One thing that really sucked was in Revenge of the Joker (the Batman Beyond movie) he easily is beat by the "Joker" after years of holding his own and often winning. Why? Because he was old and alone. It was a total shame.

But I don't want heroes to be alone or to have no life. I just want them to suck it up and save people when they know they're the only one for the job. Don't expect people to understand if you don't save them because you were at a thanksgiving potluck. More super heroes and chosen ones should tell their friends and family too. If they do their family members will know when the hero vanishes it's because he went to go stop that falling plane or kill that resurrected demon. He's not blowing you off, he's saving the world.

My parents told me it's "not about you". It's about everyone or no one wins. That's why they named me Kokayi. Because it means "call all the people together". You're not suppose to ever ONLY care about yourself. You can do things for you, but when that thing for yourself infringes on others, it comes a wrong thing to do. So if I sign up to be a hero, then I believe I should make peace with my decision. It's not about sleeping with adoring fans, or signing book deals, or taking days off just to be lazy. Once you say being hero is what you want to do and you save that first life, people are going to be expecting you to save them too. And when you don't come they think as they die "why did they save them, and not me?"