Deeps cuts man. That was a loooooong time ago. Back when I had legitimate hopium for Rowan.
As for the player hoping for better heroic content / fewer plot holes / Rowan being less of an idiot or more powerful...yeah that was me for a long time, eventually I got so frustrated by it I stopped supporting the game. I do still read parts of it when it releases on steam, but I realized that my hope for what the game could be was realistically not what it was going to be because it is not what it is. If I were you I'd just follow as a lurker and wait for that stuff. If it comes play again, if it doesn't read selectively or just avoid.
Your best bet for that sort of stuff in the current SoC ecosystem is
Hooky's Fae plot. Rowan is at least competent in it. The main focus is on an alliance with an Evil Witch or a Big-Gay Anger doggo at this moment- and while those characters might not be favorites for someone wanting to play as a hero, Rowan is at least portrayed as competent in those arcs and shown as having some opportunities. Also, Heartsong content will come eventually.
Rein likes bad guys / people suffering / writing from the POV of the person being corrupted / people losing their morality / sliding into debauchery ect ect. I dunno if he gets or gives a fuck about the good guy zeitgeist. It is generally pretty unexplored, brief, and non-cathartic in his work- though to his credit he does go out of his way to write a few moments like this even if his heart maybe isn't in it. He *does* do a great job with resist content, such as not giving into an aggressor and putting your foot in a subtle way ect. (The most recent Jezera / Rowan content is an example of such resist content.).
Historically
Winter's stuff was alright for this. The crown jewel of course being the Liurial plot finale. Hommie hasn't written anything for SoC in over a year though so I wouldn't hold your breath.
LA only writes NTR. Moving on.
The other writers. Well, frankly they seem less involved in the morality of the project's content and either just trying to collect a pay-check or mainly just assigned to writing fuck-plots.
Exaggie is extremely skilled. I liked her stuff when she was writing for the gob plot like a year ago- since then she has just done gay content and I cannot speak to if it feels like it has heroic options or not. I assume most of it is just Rowan servicing the antagonists knob with his various orifices. She is on roster to write gay stuff- that is what she does
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Nyx. Historically they have mainly just written non-substantive sexy fxf cheating-plot stuff for Alexia and Andras x Girl content. Zero heroism or morality involved. They started working with Helenya this last rotation so it is yet to be seen how much heroism / morality / ect will be involved. It is one of the more ethically nuanced and charged plots in the game. There weren't many options for heroism / strength ect in the new version. It did go extra out of its way to capture the sting of what a shit person Rowan was to betray his student though (which is a good thing) on its own- but would be better if you could actually do a damned thing to try to make up for it. Rowan was an annoying weak bitch in both the scene and the lead up. Getting harassed by rape-orcs and doing nothing about it, relying on Jezera to fix all his problems and following her around like puppy dog, cumming too fast, not trying to be there for Helenya or make her first time more special/bearable despite the awful circumstances. In fairness to Nyx, most of this scene's structure was preexistent, so they may have had their hands tied when updating things. The scene they wrote after this one b/t the two was a lot better. Time will only tell. I have faith in Nyx's prose- and while I wasn't very impressed with their first piece of work on the Hel plot, we've yet to see how they can work in a more serious space as an author when they have more freedom- jury is still out.
Wildquill is Wildquill. I liked his work with Cla-min's family despite the massive numbers of typos and some awkward sentences. His other work with the project has been weaker.
As an aside. Nice to see people in the chat talk about plot a bit again instead of just thirst-trapping for their crack pairing / sexual event of choice. SoC chat had gotten super boring there for awhile.
