Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160402201256/@comment-27265101-20160412030108

VedranTheII wrote: LucasVerBeek wrote: -Name: Oro Cavelleto …wait, wait…something doesn’t add up… He loses a leg at initiation, gets berated by his mother for it, and he walks away (well, skips away) with the partner of his initiation who felt so guilty over him losing a leg, she followed him for 2 years as opposed to continuing to try and become a hunter?…wait I figured it out. Your two characters are pretty one dimensional, and that dimension is...unflattering to say the least.

Daisy is a...what’s the nice way of putting this...a paper doll? Whatever life, hope, dreams and relationships she had up until initiation she immediately discards them to follow Oro when he loses a leg instead of...oh i dunno, trying initiation again? How much guilt do you think one can feel for a person that you presumably just met that day, since she wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the backstory, and who was mentally unaffected by losing a leg and managed to live his life peachy keen? Not enough to drop all your dreams, I’ll tell you that.

As for his mother, well she's a...what’s the nice way of putting this...a pointless idiot? Foster care is a thing, and there is no reason to assume a universe with human eating beasts wouldn’t have at least a couple of those things lying around. So if she hated him so badly, put him there, let her sort her shit out, and let the kid grow up in an environment that, although potentially crowded, has a high chance to be an improvement. Unless you’re trying to imply she did care about him enough to keep him, at which point i will have to ask why she berated the dude when he lost a leg as opposed to...oh i dunno, be relieved he was alive and not mauled?

TLDR: Try handling your side characters with as much care as the main one.

What's a nice way of putting this, if my characters are flat then most of the character's in this thread are flat. In fact I have more written down for Oro then most of my other characters. I never said he skipped away scott free the guy lost a leg and most of his faith in himself...if you want his full back story combined with Daisy's and Carraway's then I'll write it post hast but that would be a giant waste of space on this thread. Daisy has her own issues that I haven't gotten into yet but in short while she may have been a great fighter and student up until Beacon she had never been in true combat, imagine seeing someone, even a stranger, though one you are supposed to protect and work with for the next four years have his leg horrifically torn off by an Ursa, yep that wouldn't be tramatic or earth shattering at all. Plus she may or may not be all there in the head beside.

As for a foster home and his mother, I bring up that the fact that two of the canon characters Ren and Nora, never talk about a foster home or the like and only lived on their own for ages. As for why his mother kept him around she despised that his father just up and left and wanted to be better then that but that does not at all mean that she was a fit mother. She resented the responsibility he forced upon her. Another upside of keeping Oliver around was the money he brought in which while small amounts at first eventually the became slightly substantial and in a poor family ever bit of money counts. Her admonisment before he went was indeed because she cared about him and was glad that he hadn't died but she kept saying that he couldn't be anything more then a lowlife and he wouldn't amount to anything, and he decided he would prove her wrong. He doesn't care for his mother and she doesn't know exactly what happened to him but he does still make sure that she is alright and safe especially with things ramping up in Vale(Time Stamp is right around the start of RWBY).