The depiction of Clockwork in TROR is genuinely so bad, in most of his official art work hes almost always with Doombringer, yet Trubo (the owner and lore writer) says that Clockwork being dependent on Doombringer an assumption made by the community. How could we not assume that? Especially with the comic.
Additionally, in the context of the comic, Clockwork jumps into Doombringer's arms with a tear in his eye— mind you, the panel after this is them preparing to fight James.
All of his information reference Doombringer and vice versa. Trubo knows this, hell, ages ago they made a post about giving Clockwork more fun facts to not make him an 'accessory' to Doom.
Trubo claims they made Clockwork more 'independent', yet he's still always besides Doombringer, even in the Alpha poster.
Trubo knows what they're doing, they sent this in the fun facts channel a few months ago because apparently alot of people have been criticizing it before.
"Let me give you 15 fun facts about him!" sounds like "oh yeah sorry our character writing is dog shit let me give you fun facts instead!" Its an excuse, and the problem is unsolved considering that some of us are complaining still.
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Quick TROR lore rant from someone that's been writing for 4 years
The writing is bad, its horrible. It's friends often rant to Meiko about it. It didn't really bother learning other character's lore, so it did research after hearing of it's friends' criticisms.
Er... Let's see. DoomClock is dependent on each other, Deivy is nice (? Hes supposed to be snarky, according to its friend), Brightmon is Doomclock but with the amnesia trope, Sorcus is a yandere Dued1 and n7 is pushed into the spotlight because the ship's popular and everyone else gets disregarded. There's rumours of Luckymaxxer being scrapped as well but Meikos unsure.
So.... mischaracterization... and stuff.
Hey, before you start throwing tomatoes and pitchforks and going— "Hey Meiko! The lore is still in development!" It knows, but considering the fact that TROR has been in the works since 2025, some cohesive backstories would've been established? Its been a year. Development of the game and the lore can coexist. While yes there IS information, its a summary of it and leaves unanswered questions. Not to mention some characters are still lacking lore.
"The fun facts!" No. Fun facts are there to tell you about a character's personality, habits and hobbies alike. Fun facts do not equal lore.
Don't take Meikos words as just complaining about the current lore, its words are about the lack of clarification and the mischaracterization of characters. The exposition is great, how the Remains came to be is peak but if its just about the characters- thats where it all falls flat.
TROR DoomClock is a prime example of this horrible writing, but then again Meiko doesn't really care about DoomClock so we're talking about Brightmon instead.
Telamon and Brighteyes only current lore is about their relationship- how they were inlove and after their Dolormorphosis, it all falls apart and Brighteyes gets PTSD of the destruction and Telamon gets amnesia, forgetting all of his relations.
What? You expected more? Absolutely not. That's it.
This feels like a nothing burger! How do you expect anything else to come from this? They're in love and their relationship got torn after getting sent to the Remains! That's one sentence! You can summarize Brightmon in ONE sentence!
Hi. This will probably be relayed to Trubo at some point so.
Are you going give Meiko a ban now? Just like how you did with it's friends who criticized your writing?
Yes its petty about the warn. Calling your lore "ass" doesnt mean its the end of the world. The warn was unprompted and it cant believe you considered Meiko saying TROR writing is ass as disrespectful and is therefore worth a warn.
Sigh. Whatever. If this does end up reaching Trubo (which it doubts), Meikos not asking for a lot, okay? It just wants them to stop treating criticism like its a personal offense and maybe to hire writers— hell! they don't even need to do that! They could just talk with the other devs about it and get their opinions!
Look, It's tired about how Trubo treats the whole thing with excuses like "The lore is still in development!" and gets offended when said developing lore is getting criticized, when the information given to us, the community, is lacking! Obviously we would think of what was given to us! Doombringer and Clockwork's revealed lore about their relationship and nothing else? Of course people would think they're dependent on each other because THEY DONT HAVE ANY OTHER RELEASED LORE!
Please don't say fun facts. It sounds like an excuse.
It's going to repeat itself, fun facts dont equal lore.
If this gets popular.... probably not but eh. Meikos awaiting execution at this point.
