...And This Is My House

* The little German boy

* The girlboss

* The overdressed antebellum Southern gentleman

* The chad and the incel

* The empath and the sociopath

* Jesse Pinkman and Walter White

* Drake

* Grimes

* Ea-Nasir

* Stray Cat J

* Apollo (unseen; depicted only as a dodgeball thrown onto the stage to briefly strike another archetype with the Gift of Prophecy)

* Shinzo Abe

* Jerma

* The pornbot

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Like, gee, okay. Glad to see grudge-holding is such a key part of your personality that a fictional story demonstrating the lack of it is the most threatening thing to your sense of self.

Honestly a lot of the backlash to redemption arcs seems to boil down to people searching for validation to keep being angry and hateful forever/keep dehumanizing people they don't like...

I encountered a Reddit convo that is relevant to this ask:

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I wouldn't call it a "fetish" — revenge power fantasy works just fine — but yeah, it is thinly veiled as a purity testing thing.

Jax isn't an evil villain, nor did she get a redemption arc due to her self-sabotaging tendencies. If she had redeemed herself, certain people would be going after Gooseworx EVEN HARDER than they are now.

[Spoilers for... The whole series? | Why do so many people say that Jax received "no consequences" for her actions?]

Undergoing Death of Personality when she didn't want to go is an ultimate example of someone facing the consequences of their actions, I'd say.

e.g., one dungeon might allow characters to advance by progressively enbodying mythic archetypes to produce something resembling a conventional class-and-level system, save that the "character classes" are specific to that dungeon, and a different dungeon which nominally has the same advancement schema would have a totally different set of playbooks; another might have fully randomised advancement in which player characters acquire weird body-horror mutations that grant mildly game-breaking super powers with no ability to influence which ones they get; and a third might have wholly extrinsic advancement based on acquiring golf-bags full of magic items with oddly specific functions. In each case, progression through the relevant advancement schema would be extremely rapid, such that exploring its full gamut in the span of a single adventure module is feasible, and player characters would "reset to level 1" once that module is complete.

The cheap lethality of some of these games would absolutely work better in a roguelite kinda thing

I just started The Witness for the Dead, but I'll be honest, I'm sort of sad we're not still following Maia. Love Maia.