Miss Y
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- Sep 12, 2016
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I'm glad that I am not the only one who is having a difficult time figuring out how the story wants me to feel about Ulrod, or that I was just being overly critical. I could at least excuse it earlier on in the story as some mechanical awkwardness, that he couldn't just be the full-on barbarian with Cyanna like he was with Sergeant Alys because then she would've been having sex already by Update 5 or 6, long before the other three ladies. Even if it did feel silly to watch this big strong man repeatedly pester Cyanna to let him rub his dick between her thighs like some mewling virgin.
But having that pop up again at this point makes it so much harder to overlook the dissonance, especially when the thing that provoked this tantrum feels so inconsequential. I guess it's supposed to come off like a disciplined attack dog getting violently territorial out of nowhere and lashing out, but none of his interactions with Cyanna help to sell that when he is always so measured and deferential to her at each step of her corruption. The two halves just don't fit together for me, and it's really dragging down her storyline when every good moment of him humiliating her and encouraging her to humiliate herself is paired with him whining more than Jazon.
I almost think it would've been far more effective to just kill Rale off-screen and have Ulrod calmly explain that to Cyanna in his office at the end of the update like it's no big deal to him. Instead of desperately threatening her to behave, he's just informing her of a fact: that killing the competition is simply part of his nature, so she's the only one with a choice in the matter.
But having that pop up again at this point makes it so much harder to overlook the dissonance, especially when the thing that provoked this tantrum feels so inconsequential. I guess it's supposed to come off like a disciplined attack dog getting violently territorial out of nowhere and lashing out, but none of his interactions with Cyanna help to sell that when he is always so measured and deferential to her at each step of her corruption. The two halves just don't fit together for me, and it's really dragging down her storyline when every good moment of him humiliating her and encouraging her to humiliate herself is paired with him whining more than Jazon.
I almost think it would've been far more effective to just kill Rale off-screen and have Ulrod calmly explain that to Cyanna in his office at the end of the update like it's no big deal to him. Instead of desperately threatening her to behave, he's just informing her of a fact: that killing the competition is simply part of his nature, so she's the only one with a choice in the matter.