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This is actually the part I have a problem with. I'm not saying it's not the norm in the industry, I'm saying the fact that it's the norm is a problem. Or rather, the fact that it being the norm means it's completely ubiquitous. As I always say, "The problem with a raw democracy is that 51% of the people get their way 100% of the time." (It can actually be much lower than 51%, but the quote isn't as snappy if I have to include a lecture on the difference between majority and plurality.) And as an abnormal person who always falls outside of the
majority plurality, it's incredibly frustrating.
I just want to see more games where a female protagonist gets a mind controlled harem or something. And the creator of
Nexeus Institute is sick and on hiatus, so there's even more of a shortage than usual. I like girl on girl, and I like mind control, but I don't like submissive protagonists, so the idea that "female protagonist = less protagonist" is an obstacle that's holding back the games I want to see.
So... Gender neutral then?
I meant more like, if you think in terms of "male character tropes" and "female character tropes", you can just write the male character tropes, and then if the protagonist is a female you say, "Oh I guess she's a tomboy." (This is normally the part where I say "except for any tropes that require a penis", but...)
I like cocks. Cocks have got personality. They're fun.
They're bulby and they have wrinkly dangly bits and they shoot gross goop that's supposed to go on the inside but everyone keeps putting it on the outside for some reason.
(Full disclosure, I'm actually not the
biggest fan of nipples for similar reasons.)
Somewhat related: When seeing the female avatar with the eyepatch, given the Inquisitor's job is relatively safe, I like to believe there's a noodle incident behind that lost eye. Could be a fun idea for the rewrite, if you do one?
Is their job really that safe, though? I mean their role in this particular dungeon is relatively safe, but they got sent off alone without knowing that there would be Knights of Syra working the same job, didn't they? I admittedly haven't watched the intro in a while, but I thought the Inquisitor was sent out to go solo the dungeon. At the very least, being sent anywhere near the dungeon without an escort from the start is a very dangerous job, as evidenced by how they got ambushed by Raine.
And if their title implies that they actually did any Inquisiting*, they must have traveled to areas that were suspected to have potentially dangerous heretics lurking nearby. They may have been expected to confront those heretics directly. I expect the Inquisitor to have seen some form of combat in their work, which could have cost them an eye.
(*Disclaimer: I am aware that the words associated with Inquisitor are "inquire" and "inquisition", not "inquisiting".)
Although it would be hilarious if she actually had Sophomore Syndrome/"Chunibyou", and only wore the eyepatch to pretend that it holds back a demonic power that would obliterate her enemies if it was ever unleashed. Actually, that'd be a pretty fun theme for an enemy. Maybe a Delusional Maid who claims that taking off her eyepatch would immediately turn the knight into her obedient slave, and the knight is unsure of whether to take this threat seriously or not. I suppose the bat girl already had shades of this, though.
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Or, that could be Olivia's theme. What if, in contrast to Coraline insisting that she's been set free and shown the truth, Olivia claims to have been a victim of such an overwhelming amount of corruption that she's had to seal most of it behind an eyepatch? She claims (and even believes) that she's still loyal to Syra, but she "cAn'T CoNtRoL iT" and ends up attacking and/or seducing the other knights. The reality is that she has fallen to corruption, but she enjoyed fighting it so much that she's lost in the fantasy of being constantly on the brink.