[Meta Thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

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I like that 'mirror'-aspect! A few additional Points that come to mind:

--You know nothing about Bern's past and former life aside from very few minor hints here and there (･ω<)☆ And good luck trying to get anything out of him! If you did, you'd know why he is so logical and stoic and everything. He CAN be very emotional of you press the right (or wrong) Buttons though.

-- He and Oz DO have one thing in Common, but the outcome/result is VERY different. While Oz and yes irl-me too are still haunted by their trauma-demons, Bern pressed on, made the best out of it over the years, decades even. Literally what doesn't kill you, either gives you trauma or makes you stronger. Literally the ideal what I do strive for myself, let the past be the past and learn from it.

-- How either treat their Pokemon kinda represents their Fraction, Moderate in Bern's case and Radical in Oz's case.

Me too! It's a really neat concept that I like quite a lot. The mirror aspect it's a element of narrative I enjoy quite a lot. Characters who are similar in certain things but go in straight in opposite directions. It's more than just Good and Evil (although this could be the case but more) and more in complexity of characterization.

This video explain a bit more in depth about those concepts, although its focus in the "Rival" characters for players on DND, I think it also works for analysis of characters in general:



- 1: I am extremely curios to see more of Bernard past indeed. How and why he is the way it is. The battle against the super boss kinda show a vulnerable side of him I did not expect, and how he doesn't handle the things of bravery with Oz and Seddi words (which is something I think he and Oz kinda have in common, since she also doesn't handle compliments like that).

- Yeah...Like I said a few times here in this thread, Oz is the one who I put the most of my own Soul into her creation. Sometimes I am haunted by shame and regret from things I wished I changed in the past, differents paths I wished I could taken, but refused to do it. And I already said that too, but Oz is also a homage to Shiva, with both of them be similar in many aspects to Shiva, specially with the connection to mysticism. I wish Oz and Shiva would be each other someday, would be cool them have a talk to each other and maybe be cool friends. But we already know Shiva choice and they would problably not see each other (although a man can dream).

- Indeed. But by the end of the day, they both cared about their Pokemon partners. It's really awesome to see two characters who belong to same group of Scimitars and see different mindsets of both. Just like you mentioned in the message, I am curious to see both of them have some kind of interactions about magic and mystic stuff since they both are Scimitars.