Fuck, I could bust to this comment
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I have the same pet peeves! And you put all that in better words than I ever could have. Sorry for this little wall, but I just have to vent here..
So I try to put myself in Guy's shoes, like if I were him in RL... and a punch from a kid and a random hobo chasing me with a knife... wouldn't push me into suddenly toting a gun around, I mean come on. I don't know what some of these folks are thinking.
Maybe I'd have a gun in my apartment? That's not entirely unreasonable. But, then again, MC lives in a really nice one.. so I probably wouldn't even go that far. House, definitely; apartment condo? Nnnnahhhh. But
why TF would I carry it out in public on my person? Even if I kept it in my car, well... I'm not going to be around my car 24/7, now am I? So there will be plenty of opportunities to be vulnerable and caught off guard.
And I'm DEFINITELY not bringing it into a drug den. I don't want to agitate any violent assholes in there, ones that probably have far more experience using a gun than I do, far more experience putting themselves in life and death situations too. I guess I'm just not the macho guy that conquers danger at every turn.
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But Guy should be, according to some of these players?
To even begin to entertain a bodyguard, an expensive ass bodyguard that adds complications and makes walking around the city very very awkward, I'd have to be put into a very scary crisis situation that gives me a different perspective on my mortality. Like, the kind where you start to view every situation as a potential vulnerability, a potential way that you could've gotten hurt or died. It takes quite an incident to summon that state of mind, imo. To reiterate: NOT a punch or a fucking homeless guy with a knife.
It's either that, or be put under consistent threat/duress from someone, like a dangerous stalker.. someone involved in a gang, perhaps.. that sort of stuff. It seems like Lucien is going to be that guy? So, yeah.. it makes perfect sense that Guy is starting to reevaluate his safety & protection
now and
only now.
And regarding decisions that Guy makes; people far too quickly disregard the basic emotion of fear and what it does to your decision making... or hell, just being unsure or naively ignorant. People have blindspots and make mistakes, and I'm so glad to see an MC who finally makes them. Has no one ever been seemingly pulled somewhere or towards someone even while all your alarms are going off in your brain? You start to feel scared or uncomfortable, but then you're also in doubt and start to get afraid and uncomfortable at the thought of overreacting or making a scene or something and so you just keep going as if you're a robot that can't fight its faulty programming. Maybe that comes more down to personality, but I've been in those situations way too many times in life.
Like God damn, so many people, even fans, have a fetish for thumbing your eyes about your own story. "Why this" "why that" "why not this" "why not that", isn't that the author's prerogative? Most books or movies or video games or w/e that I try, I put my trust into the authors and just wait and see where they go with it; sit back and relax and just enjoy the journey. I mean, none of these plots people are bitching about have even gotten to the midpoint yet, have they?
Anywho, reading some of these constant complaints or suggestions lately has been like inhaling pepper. I just needed a good, powerful sneeze!