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

[Lord Windos]

Ventus didn't just burn it to the ground.  He collapsed the den with Magnitude, burned what was left, coated it in acid, and then burned it again.  It's going to take a looooonnnngggg time for ANYTHING to live there ever again...

No pokemon died, thankfully (they ALL fled the scene when Ventus made his less than good-willed intentions clear, and the forest guardians turned into a bunch of leaves when they were fainted).  However, Ventus's phobia makes it rather difficult to like him in this campaign, since it's a topic that CONSTANTLY comes up, and it often causes more trouble than actually helping.  And Ventus refuses to budge on it (or most any of his opinions, for that matter), period, even if he's clearly in the wrong or not thinking completely logically.

It's been a problem since the start of the campaign, and I'm just going to be blunt: it's my least favorite part of Ventus's character.

My character was thorough in making sure that the Den wasn't going to be a problem EVER again! He's very much a fan of 'Scorched Earth' and 'Salting Carthus' options, don't you know!

Yeah, but at the same time Ven is conscious of his phobia/paranioa and the problems it causes by now, and tries to minimize it and/or make compromises even if he doesn't necessarily want to. For example he compromised on the Deyos, he perfectly accepts Shiva despite her magical/fae tendacies/interests, is quite tolerant and understanding of the most of the myths and legends surrounding Cheshire, being tolerant towards Orthros even though he strongly disagree with keeping it, and right now removing himself from the conversation to prevent problems. Point is, even if its a sticking point that comes up every so often in the campaign, Ventus is honestly TRYING to be less bothersome with it for the group's shake, even if he's not entirely successful.

Plus, that paranioa comes in handy for keeping him sharp for danger/alert for such things, (as demonstrated in the Scimitar base) and provides more than enough motivation to be the group's protector whenever possible. That, and such paranioa and fear stems from a EXTREMELY traumatizing events in his life, on top of a life of hardship and doing dubious things, so its somewhat sympathetic/understandable why he acts like he does. Also, as Phantom pointed out, having a legitimate phobia over Fairy types/Magical stuff is fairly serious problem for him that can't be purely reasoned or logiced out of existence, so there is that as well. The fact that he can still have pleasant and tolerable interactions DESPITE his phobia and can control it to an extent speaks strongly to his inner strength and character, imo...

Finally, while Ven's phobia/hatread of all thing magical is a bugbear, its only an occasional/rare one that can be managed readily with foresight and preparation on my part , so I don't think its a HUGE problem/annoyance at this point in time. At least, that is what I think anyways.