Comments of chapter undefined of The Genius Hunter Can’t Die!
The Genius Hunter Can’t Die!
DrunkImmortalCat
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John is enjoying this too much. I assume it's because of the Cold Heart skill which prevents him from feeling fear. It's a cheap and lazy cop-out that makes it so that you don't have to develop him and show him growing. He should not be having fun. He should be afraid and in despair. Doubting his decisions. Torn between his terror at the pain and suffering he's having to endure and his desire for revenge, repentance and forgiveness. You show his trauma and guilt about what happened, perhaps manifested as a hallucination of the corpse of his sister blaming him for what happened or something like that. Maybe he goes a bit insane from the combination of guilt, unspeakable agony and constant death. His arc would be about dealing with that trauma and hardening himself. Perhaps coming to terms with the role his own weakness and cowardice played in his loved ones deaths and using it to fortify his determination in climbing the tower and enduring inhuman suffering in the process, ultimately transforming from a cowardly guilt ridden victim into a hardened, wise, slightly insane and formidable warrior that even the gods fear.
That’s not the path he’s going to take. That would be far too easy and an overused plot, his grief was apparent at the start, yet it was something he wallowed in, the cold-heart isn’t a way to avoid writing his growth, it’s a skill that also comes with side-effects, and overcoming it is the growth he’s going to achieve. Nothing comes for free and unlike my other characters, John is a chaotic element. And though cold heart allows him to not wallow in sorrow and move forward it also effects him negatively, the story is still in its infancy at this point, for him to have growth he needs a base and the base that will be built upon is still being formed, he lacks a set constriction becuz that’s just who he is, an empty street orphan with high dreams, he’s always out of his depth, someone with a dark path who isn’t chained by it. A truly strong, chaotic, or even free person is someone who has every reason to frown/be sad but still laughs at times. I understand your views for the character but it’s still in its infancy and as what i’m planning for him is unique, you won’t see a lot of the common tropes, he’s meant to feel like a complex and real character, someone with multiple aspects to him, not just [Guy with sad past, must be held back by his past] No! He’s a human.