- Feb 20, 2021
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read the codexI don't mind the rails too much (yet), but the constant tough&smart-guy-act of the MC borders on grandstanding and is a smoke and mirror show par excellence, and it's annoying as fuck.
I mean, he's a total nobody, literally on hobo-levels of not having anything going for him, yet he comes in and says "I'll take over, you work for me now, I know how this works, I can do everything better" and everybody just .. goes along with it?
And then he has literally no plan in place on how to proceed (or how anything works, for that matter), but just constantly demands, lectures (with dumb empty phrases and a pointy finger that I want to break so badly..) and demands some more. He's the asshole equivalent of an ideas guy in game production. And nobody likes or cares about those.
And this whole act kiiiinda works for Nora, but how or why Rose just doesn't send 5 guys to fuck him up and dump his body in the next lake is beyond me. Latest update she outright says, she never "felt the need for hiring muscles". Which begs the question how or why she is allowed to rub elbows with any big names of crime in the city. Which in turn makes these supposed "big players" feel like a total joke.
Which is immediately proven 5 minutes later when Graziani says "we tried dealing with her, but she wouldn't budge." .. like .. wat?! The total pushover who immediately rolled on her back for that one-man-nothing-show gave you problems? How? Why? Did you know that you're a criminal and thus can resort to violence, or did you just write her a sternly worded letter? And she owns your warehouses? How .. how did your operations ever work?! And now you plan to pay the MC for using the very things he just took from you? Wow. Just wow! Being a criminal mastermind is so fucking easy, it's all just there for the taking, easy peasy, it's free real estate!
So far, what the MC has shown us, is that he is just two things - a slightly more efficent brute than literal street trash and a spoiled brat. In short, a bully. Nothing else.
We really need a prove-yourself arc here asap, or it makes all the (honestly already pretty damn cringey and cliched) criminals of the story feel like total morons for even bothering with such a puff of bloated up hot air who is nothing but a walking family name and the whole story devolves to yet another impotent powerfantasy harem like several others..
the conclave
there you get where the mc comes from
and from the flashbacks - his "training"
to call him a nobody is ignorant