The “hot vs ugly female character” is really a proxy argument. The existence of a hot female isn’t a necessary condition for a good story, but ugly characters are a leading indicator for bad stories. The underlying issue, as you’ve said here, is woke stories/characters. It’s about wall-to-wall girl bosses. It’s about every capable, brave, and good side character being a woman while every weak, cowardly, or evil side character is a man. It’s about insufferable feminist archetypes and behaviors dictating character personalities and story beats. You could theoretically have a very based story full of based characters who are all very ugly, but this is not a realistic possibility in our Darwinian reality. Leftists abuse aesthetics simultaneous to their abuse of story and character.
You could theoretically have a very based story full of based characters who are all very ugly
Ironically in the very game we are discussing the ugly character, Yuna, is one of the better written ones whose "badassery" is realistic to what women could do against grown soldiers. Thievery, sneaking, and cheap shots while running from basically everything, and she is butt ugly from living a life of that as a street urchin.
She gets underplayed a lot, because the other big storyline women (archer girl and samurai widow lesbian) are pure Woke nonsense. But its a show that the devs behind this are aware of all these problems, and are actively choosing to write in the direction they are.
Better written ones but i still remember her pissing me off with her feminist writing. I think quality of writing for her was accidental and she's not really likeable though for good reasons.
She was a means to an end. Only an absolute shitbag would be trying to rob the battlefield soon enough to find Jin and be able to save him. And then she pushed him towards finding the actual best character of the story, her brother, whose tools and arc are what turned Jin into the Ghost itself.
Yeah, pretty much. My brain already purged most of the story but i remember evaluating her character on my 2nd (pc) playthrough and yeah she was mostly a rogue (semi-scum) with a few redeeming qualities.
Good post.
The “hot vs ugly female character” is really a proxy argument. The existence of a hot female isn’t a necessary condition for a good story, but ugly characters are a leading indicator for bad stories. The underlying issue, as you’ve said here, is woke stories/characters. It’s about wall-to-wall girl bosses. It’s about every capable, brave, and good side character being a woman while every weak, cowardly, or evil side character is a man. It’s about insufferable feminist archetypes and behaviors dictating character personalities and story beats. You could theoretically have a very based story full of based characters who are all very ugly, but this is not a realistic possibility in our Darwinian reality. Leftists abuse aesthetics simultaneous to their abuse of story and character.
Ironically in the very game we are discussing the ugly character, Yuna, is one of the better written ones whose "badassery" is realistic to what women could do against grown soldiers. Thievery, sneaking, and cheap shots while running from basically everything, and she is butt ugly from living a life of that as a street urchin.
She gets underplayed a lot, because the other big storyline women (archer girl and samurai widow lesbian) are pure Woke nonsense. But its a show that the devs behind this are aware of all these problems, and are actively choosing to write in the direction they are.
Better written ones but i still remember her pissing me off with her feminist writing. I think quality of writing for her was accidental and she's not really likeable though for good reasons.
She was a means to an end. Only an absolute shitbag would be trying to rob the battlefield soon enough to find Jin and be able to save him. And then she pushed him towards finding the actual best character of the story, her brother, whose tools and arc are what turned Jin into the Ghost itself.
Yeah, pretty much. My brain already purged most of the story but i remember evaluating her character on my 2nd (pc) playthrough and yeah she was mostly a rogue (semi-scum) with a few redeeming qualities.