Yeah, like, the worst I can say about Malos in Torna is that he's just a flat villain with zero fresh development. Which. Fine, it's better than making him actively worse I guess >_>) I do feel you, I thought Torna org had a lot of potential and I really liked the potential dimension of all of them being so emotionally damaged that they couldn't even bring themselves to embrace being a weird misshapen family unit (especially not with "affection is poison" Malos at the helm, despite him being the one who fucking collected them like orphaned kittens), but writing them as flawed but sympathetic would have required the plot be willing to let things be Rex' fault, sometimes. I thought Akhos and Patroka had potential, and I really wanted more development of their apparently fraught relationship with Nia, but alas.
I'd honestly be curious to hear about why you liked N so much. I can't make up my mind about him, but I haven't really heard a lot of people saying positive things about him, y'know? I'll also say I was already interested in languagefic b/c I love Tower of Babel set-ups and I rarely see them done in fanfic -- a lot of fannish content with Isurd doesn't really live up to my admittedly. quite high standards, he tends to be written a little too comedic for my preferences, b/c the thing I like about him the best is that it's very hard to tell if he's sincerely weird or if he's bullshitting people for the strategic advantage. I like it when his intentions are... ambiguous c:
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Date: 2023-07-16 12:10 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, like, the worst I can say about Malos in Torna is that he's just a flat villain with zero fresh development. Which. Fine, it's better than making him actively worse I guess >_>) I do feel you, I thought Torna org had a lot of potential and I really liked the potential dimension of all of them being so emotionally damaged that they couldn't even bring themselves to embrace being a weird misshapen family unit (especially not with "affection is poison" Malos at the helm, despite him being the one who fucking collected them like orphaned kittens), but writing them as flawed but sympathetic would have required the plot be willing to let things be Rex' fault, sometimes. I thought Akhos and Patroka had potential, and I really wanted more development of their apparently fraught relationship with Nia, but alas.
I'd honestly be curious to hear about why you liked N so much. I can't make up my mind about him, but I haven't really heard a lot of people saying positive things about him, y'know? I'll also say I was already interested in languagefic b/c I love Tower of Babel set-ups and I rarely see them done in fanfic -- a lot of fannish content with Isurd doesn't really live up to my
admittedly. quite highstandards, he tends to be written a little too comedic for my preferences, b/c the thing I like about him the best is that it's very hard to tell if he's sincerely weird or if he's bullshitting people for the strategic advantage. I like it when his intentions are... ambiguous c: