- Dec 4, 2019
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Ah yes Nakano, The Below-Budget Sasuke from WISH that is actually rejected by WISH itself.The funny thing is, Tobs wrote Nakano to be as hateable as possible, but he actually ended up one of my favorite foxes.
He was written that way to make it so that no matter which Kinu you have, one parent is approving of her mate while the other is against it. Nakano is so hateable to make you feel what Kiyoko feels towards Hitoshi.
But giving him all those flaws actually pushed his character out of the 2d template of "look at me, I'm an airheaded vampire fox who thinks only about sex and mischief".
I'm supposed to hate him, but I only feel... pity? Dude's been treated like trash for being born in a colony, has to lead a mockery of a garrison while being swamped with requests, gets beaten by outsider, and now his crush also is hitting on said outsider. I don't want to hate him, I wanna help that homie before he becomes alcoholic under all that stress.
He is meant to be detestable, but I wish more characters felt as "real" as him.
I do find it funny that you compare that guy to the only guy trying to make an honest living without being too much of a dick 'coz he's probably one of the few tolerated characters I know in the den.
You mean that piece of shit who thinks he's alone even if he's surrounded by people who care like his own damn grandmother?
I haven't seen a positive thing about that guy, he's bitching 24/7 while trying to act like he is the bigger man, something that he won't become since he keeps up with his close-mindedness and arrogance.
The only reason he softens up to Kinu is because she strokes his fragile-ass ego.
Guys like him will never know true suffering until everything's taken from them.
His current "burden" is nothing compared to anyone that actually experienced it, it's more of a ramblings of a spoiled, pampered child with closed mindedness and tunnel-vision.
That first fox lady we fight during the den visit is already written way better as a character than that piece of shit because at least she knows basic etiquette like COMMON SENSE.
I don't know if they changed some info from him but if they did RETCON his backstory then MAYBE there's a chance I might like this guy.
I do agree with you in a way, I pity him too because he's written as a fox den character aka spite content by tobs.
A cold, distant badass with the cliche' burden fits this game's world tbh and I can see such a character archetype to be popular.
"REAL" characters like this are very common in real life, I know a lot of 'em.
Look at this shit, I'm starting to write like tobs now.