Perniciousducks
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First, this entire Penny cutdown nonsense started with her being accused of not having the “issues” that the other girls have, which makes her less interesting. She has the easy life of no problems while life is so hard for everyone else. I already explained why, except for basically 2 cases, she has more issues to deal with than the rest of the LI cast. You can scroll back for that.
As far as her being useful within the game, I’ll start by saying that’s a pretty shitty way to look at someone and tells me more about you than about her, but you do basically what I said. She contributes but you downplay and assume it could be done by anyone, but when any other girl does a thing, it’s impossible to replace.
Annie and Dalia are good game players, but after getting Orion into the game, are not consequential. Any of their arcs could be replaced. They do nothing essential and like Penny and the Vampires, could be cut and replaced by another girl doing something similar. Nova has a god weapon. Alex has “behind the scenes” blah blah blah. Alex hasn’t done anything special or provided any info that couldn’t be found out via other means. Like you mentioned, Nova is an excellent hacker that could get that info on her own. Nancy is a great strategist, and you already pointed out that Chang can do that. Luna has a magic power that she avoids using because it makes her sad, and like Penny could be replaced by any other empathetic character as far as her contribution via the werewolves. I’ll grant Nova providing a lot, but none of the others are essential, and could just be swapped about with light rewrites.
I wouldn’t want any character to be dropped as unnecessary, but to pretend that Penny is in any way superfluous is a you issue, not a Penny issue. She’s part of the team, has contributed multiple times, whether or not you choose to count it. She is only as replaceable as many of the LIs, in that weirdly specific department that I don’t understand using as a measuring stick I guess.
As far as her being useful within the game, I’ll start by saying that’s a pretty shitty way to look at someone and tells me more about you than about her, but you do basically what I said. She contributes but you downplay and assume it could be done by anyone, but when any other girl does a thing, it’s impossible to replace.
Annie and Dalia are good game players, but after getting Orion into the game, are not consequential. Any of their arcs could be replaced. They do nothing essential and like Penny and the Vampires, could be cut and replaced by another girl doing something similar. Nova has a god weapon. Alex has “behind the scenes” blah blah blah. Alex hasn’t done anything special or provided any info that couldn’t be found out via other means. Like you mentioned, Nova is an excellent hacker that could get that info on her own. Nancy is a great strategist, and you already pointed out that Chang can do that. Luna has a magic power that she avoids using because it makes her sad, and like Penny could be replaced by any other empathetic character as far as her contribution via the werewolves. I’ll grant Nova providing a lot, but none of the others are essential, and could just be swapped about with light rewrites.
I wouldn’t want any character to be dropped as unnecessary, but to pretend that Penny is in any way superfluous is a you issue, not a Penny issue. She’s part of the team, has contributed multiple times, whether or not you choose to count it. She is only as replaceable as many of the LIs, in that weirdly specific department that I don’t understand using as a measuring stick I guess.