All these mental gymnastic just to defend a useless MC. The purpose of thread like this is to give criticism, so, at the current state, the MC is just a useless good for nothing character, too docile and lacks any self confidence, simple as that. Perhaps it'll change in the future, but that's how it is currently.
I disagree. Different people, different opinions.
sorry I'll jump in, did you ever take in conteplation, that the MC is the one who tells us the "overcoming" story ? he has more flaws than we all together! true, he lacks of fighting skills, Lara, and Elise top him without any effort in that, plus Lara has all the spiritual side of it, Mirelle tops him in being cunning in spy games, Blanche has tech skills beyond his, and he has Lady Safyia, who tops him in Leadership, the Judge tops him in rightousness, so where left this the MC ?
Excluded explosion, nothing to say about it. She was my favorite, but hey, shit happens.
Anyway, on the above. Overcoming a challenge would be welcome. Not being best in anything is perfectly valid and ok.
The issue some of us have been bringing is that it's hard to see how exactly MC is trying to overcome. How is he trying to outsmart, outplay potential treason from within?
Before this update I'd say with 100% certainty there won't be any, but after events of this update, I'll give dev major props for actually doing ballsy thing (despite it being a sad event for me) and wouldn't be surprised if someone from the team actually is working against MC.
My complaint comes from MC having done nothing so far.
He's given orders which were "outruled" by others.
He's been forced to add insanely untrustworthy people to his team.
He hasn't said a single thing or gotten into single argument to defend his opinion when others disagreed with him.
He's allowed everyone to boss him around, do whatever they want.
And even all of that WOULD BE fine if he was making some plans, or known about stuff.
Problem is he is always caught flat footed. He knows nothing and is always 5 steps behind.
He's barely involved with events except coming to see final stage unravel.
That's why I said monologues would be such an amazing thing. Some thought process to show he's not incompetent fool that accepted his fate and hopes nobody kills him.
And yes, I'm well aware he's worried they can read his thoughts, but if you'll excuse me being blunt here, that's such a lazy excuse not to have monologues.
EDIT:
The only, and I mean only possible explanation I can see for MC being so utterly garbage is he was always garbage, his reputation is absurdly inflated (which he himself says it kind of is) and someone's using him as scapegoat for mess that might come out.
Still doesn't make for interesting POV and DEFINITELY doesn't explain why any girl would be interested in him.
