[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dies Irae]

If it seems like Ventus is still acting like a cuckloid, well that's because he's quite frustrated that he can't seem to make any headway into fixing up his relationships. There never really has been a situation that Ventus could just explain things or make it up excessively to whatever party he offended or caused trouble, but now he's hit a wall, so to speak.

He wants and desires to explain just WHY he went frothing mad towards almost everyone in the flower field, but no one is giving him the time of day besides Shiva. Heck, he even went well past his comfort zone and was fully willing to give his background to Vincent and the rest of the group, but he's been rebuffed at almost every step. I can't blame Nathan and Vincent from being cold towards him, since he did threaten to use his Ekans on the whole lot, and was only stopped when Vincent stepped in and chased him off. They have all right to avoid the nutty doctor and his repressed emotional trauma, but its not going to make the journey any easier for them if they have to watch there back 24/7.

I just hope that Ventus get a chance to explain himself someday...

All signs point to yes. After all, this is basically a game which we're playing for fun, so... eh. This too shall eventually pass.
Just that doing the setting equivalent of pulling a gun on Vincent and Nathan is has left some scars which will take a while to fade.

Anyway. Here comes the ugly full disclosure.

I'll be honest. I didn't enjoy that little episode as a player either. Whether you were doing it consciously or not, it felt like you were grabbing for the strings of my little fantasy mannequin. And while I can't speak for the other players, player agency and verisimilitude go hand-in-hand for me in RPG. No insult to Iron - he's telling an awesome story here, but if I'm just rolling dice while letting my character get dragged around without my input, but... then it's suddenly a novel.

I don't think you're doing it on purpose either. You don't strike me as a 'stop having fun guys' type of person but I do think you're trying too hard to establish Ventus as awesome to the exclusion of everyone else at the table. We're all people behind screens too and we've all got our own stories to tell and dice to roll as well. There's a little bit of us invested in our characters too, I like to think. It's not fun being condescended to by another person's virtual avatar without consent.

I think we'd all benefit if we sat down and figured out what we're shooting for as a group of players at the table and see if we can find a compromise outcome, just because if we're all tiptoeing around each other trying to avoid stepping on toes...

Well... I think we're sort of wasting Iron's time.