Generic wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:04 am
Imagine this though: The story ends up putting MinMax in a Brassmoon tavern. He is the saviour of the city, has a girl on each arm, and a broken Kin, still in that horrible leash, at his feet.
I. Would. Love. That.
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I am not saying it's out of character for her.However: I would really, really dislike a sweet ending to a story about an abuse victim returning to an abuser.
She doing that, and slowly and horribly being destroyed by it, would be GREAT.
This... Actually clears things a whole bunch. And not even in any "bad way". I actually get that. If done well, that could turn into an actually interesting story. HIGHLY controversial, but part of me wouldn't mind it happening in today's climate just for it being a thing then.
But I fear it would be more in line with miseryporn. Just wrecking stuff for wrecking's sake. It takes a great artist to make it into an actual story.
Also Minmax really isn't the character for it. He's just so lawful stupid good with all his faults. He is the hero of the story. Names would probably work well though. He's definitely good too, but he's shown fault lines. Major ones. He was ready to kill an unarmed person who was not even fighting back for pure kill-giggles and had to be stopped by the rest of the cast. He could go down the slippery slope.
Minmax just wouldn't cut it and to me the leash-moment really nailed it. I've tried to find the right way to explain how I see it and not been very good at it, but here goes another:
Like said, he both knew what he was doing and at the same time he had no idea what he was doing. He expressly knew that the leash would make her stop, it would make her listen. And he knew it was the only option he had left in that moment. Any other thing and Kin would still walk away.
So he took that last option and made her stop and listen. He took that power trip that the leash offered him. And when he did it, it scared the living bejeeHerbert out of him. He was almost as shocked of that moment as Kin. Heck, he was barely able to cope and even that was mostly Forgath. When he "lost" even him, the only thing that broke him out of his stupor was when he witnessed his own actions repeated by the goblins.
That kind of guy would just need to take such a road to actually become abusive. Let alone to level that would end up destroying Kin.
Which is really why it's so hard to see how Minmax could be an abuser any more than I'm a thief for once forgetting a box of candy in my pocket (I really thought hard about going back to pay it, but I was something like 10, so it kinda slipped) or a molester for once hugging a person who REALLY didn't want it (they even later said I had managed to touch their breast when reaching for a sneak hug from behind them [I had zero idea they were very conscious about their body and I should have known better to try such in any case, but there we go] which triggered some lovely flashbacks... [yeah, they had very good reasons for not wanting people to touch them...]).
Granted, if you kill someone it's not just "that one time", you are a killer (still might have good reasons or just plain horrible accident), but to me it's just kinda insulting towards people who are actual abuse victims (like Kin) that Minmax would be an abuser. Heck, even Kin thinks otherwise.
But yeah. Got to agree with Generic on that if the situation was different and this had room to develop into the "New Hero of Brassmoon"... It could be interesting.
If not for anything else then for the very reason that we could see an actual abuser instead of getting all worked out over simple idiots.
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