Warcraftsues, year two

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Well, its been two years (more or less) since the first Warcraftsues post. And, as I won't be around for the actual rollover, I've decided it's time for an arbitrary year in review, complete with analysis of trends, random commentary, idle speculation and lots of typos.

Comments

[rantinan]

I predict a bunch of deathknights who keep their braces on at all tiems to hide the scars!

[sphaerus]

Heeeey. Ow.

I had a human for a while who did that, but he had mangled genitals, distrusted women, wasn't really a looker, had zero noble lineage, and suffered from mild-to-moderate PTSD which lead to some serious emotional coping issues.

But still.

Ow. Just because you don't wanna look like you tried to chew off your hands doesn't mean you're a Sue (I hope)!

[rantinan]

Having delt with my own mental illness demons, seeing what is basically a bad parody played as an attention seeking gambit shits me mightily.
So to be specific, this is exactly what i predict for deathknights: A bunch of "look at my delicious suffering, comfort me" types. If this description applies to your personal motivations in creating a character no matter how well researched, then yup, Stu.

[sphaerus]

Well yeah, no, that noise I avoid like a plague. I mean if you're going to have a backstory your character doesn't talk about for emotional reasons, why the fuck would your character talk about it at every odd opportunity?

[amynnah]

if you're going to have a backstory your character doesn't talk about for emotional reasons, why the fuck would your character talk about it at every odd opportunity?

This. I've lived through some traumatic shit IRL, and I don't talk about it with random strangers. I actually had someone come up to my character, while I was sitting in the Inn, and tell me their life story in-character about how their mother used to shove pickles up their butts and it made them hate all women and blah blah blah and PS they're gay now because of mommy issues. My character just looked at them (female Belf Priestess), and asked, softly, "...is this a confession? Do you wish to be forgiven? Go outside in Eversong, kneel at Stillwater Pond's edge, and ask for forgiveness from your sins." She got up, raised her hand and touched his forehead, then her lips, and said, "May the Sunwell guide your steps," and walked away.

[sphaerus]

Last time I had something like that happen, Devinicus went about trying to put them out of their misery and spent the next hour chasing after them, hand raised in the air, trying to kill them.

Sadly, he didn't get them, you can't boil someone's brain out of their skull in front of the guards.

[amynnah]

Oh my God... I think I'd've peed myself laughing at that! Yeah, the guards might not have looked kindly upon you frying brains... it encourages the Scourge to show up, and well... Jonathan Coulton put it best. ;)

Cue the Benny Hill music!

[gizzybiscuits]

...Pickles? PICKLES?!