SangoProduction
2016-10-08, 04:11 PM
I had the displeasure of reading Re: Monster, which features the most Mary Sue character I've ever seen. And I've read The Gamer, which featured some power with an at-will Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
Anyway, what I found the least bit interesting was how the character acted (as an immortal god-goblin). If I was to use a metaphor, it would be "It's almost as if you took a 6 Int and Wis Orc/Demon and managed to teach it to value civility.".
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So, the first thing of note, alignment-wise, was that, after being attacked by others of the goblin clan, he killed one, and let the rest live after a severe beating...afterwards, he took the dead out and devoured it (think of Illithid Savant and have it also allow him to drain physical attributes, like Slime's "Physical Resistance"). He stated he neither liked nor disliked it.
Realising the attack was because the other goblins couldn't hunt for themselves, he brought back a feast, and taught the others how to hunt as he did, and even fashioned tools for some, which instantly earned the servitude of his generation of goblins. (Because why wouldn't it? We know goblins can't hunt. They clearly survived to that point by feeding off the ...anyway.)
The next thing of relevance: The goblin clan needed humans to breed goblins, because "goblins have a lower fertility with each other". (Don't question how that makes sense, evolutionarily or otherwise.) So, in the breeding quarters, there were human females - truly depressed and clearly not liking what's happened. (Who would? Well, the new harem, obviously.) Not having any authority, but not wanting them to continue as they were, he left poison for them to take in the room. After them being found dead, he went to bury them (eating their hearts and brains first, but leaving the rest).
There's also the bit about him hunting and devouring the stereotypically "savage" races (Porcs, Kobolds, Lizardmen) without remorse. Even for sport because they taste good. Well, not the Lizardmen, but still killed/ate them when they ambushed him.
Next, when the parents of the clan with human females (you know for what purpose), he expresses concern, and says to the parents "hey, you should give the humans to me." Wins the duel easily, and takes command over the entire clan (because Mary Sue). He then establishes the rule that the humans aren't to be touched. When a group of the parents disobeys, they are captured. The entire clan awakened, and made to watch gruesome torture, where he casts heal spells to delay death until he's bored.
He promises to return the human females home, but never makes any effort to. Why would you when they happily work for you, and even stick to the original reason they were captured...one day after they were captured. But they are happy about it... Because it makes sense.../s
Skipping past the piddly stuff and grinding and what have you. Elves attack. The main character wins easily, and captures them...for breeding. "They must accept your advances." he says...as he fills the prison chamber with aphrodisiacs...
At last, the parent goblins get fed up, and decide to leave. They haven't done anything he's forbidden, so he sees them off, and even gifts them minor magic items to protect themselves with. "If they leave happy, then there's a lower chance they'll tell anyone about where we are." Is how he explains his reasoning.
And finally, we come to the end of the written books. He follows a human assassin unit who was going to attack an elf maiden of the lake. They kill off all the maiden's guards, and were about to kill her as well. Main character steps in, kills the assassins, captures the maiden, then ransoms her to the Elvish village for magic items.
(Oh, and eats the hearts and brains of everyone who died, before cremating them.)
Anyway, what I found the least bit interesting was how the character acted (as an immortal god-goblin). If I was to use a metaphor, it would be "It's almost as if you took a 6 Int and Wis Orc/Demon and managed to teach it to value civility.".
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So, the first thing of note, alignment-wise, was that, after being attacked by others of the goblin clan, he killed one, and let the rest live after a severe beating...afterwards, he took the dead out and devoured it (think of Illithid Savant and have it also allow him to drain physical attributes, like Slime's "Physical Resistance"). He stated he neither liked nor disliked it.
Realising the attack was because the other goblins couldn't hunt for themselves, he brought back a feast, and taught the others how to hunt as he did, and even fashioned tools for some, which instantly earned the servitude of his generation of goblins. (Because why wouldn't it? We know goblins can't hunt. They clearly survived to that point by feeding off the ...anyway.)
The next thing of relevance: The goblin clan needed humans to breed goblins, because "goblins have a lower fertility with each other". (Don't question how that makes sense, evolutionarily or otherwise.) So, in the breeding quarters, there were human females - truly depressed and clearly not liking what's happened. (Who would? Well, the new harem, obviously.) Not having any authority, but not wanting them to continue as they were, he left poison for them to take in the room. After them being found dead, he went to bury them (eating their hearts and brains first, but leaving the rest).
There's also the bit about him hunting and devouring the stereotypically "savage" races (Porcs, Kobolds, Lizardmen) without remorse. Even for sport because they taste good. Well, not the Lizardmen, but still killed/ate them when they ambushed him.
Next, when the parents of the clan with human females (you know for what purpose), he expresses concern, and says to the parents "hey, you should give the humans to me." Wins the duel easily, and takes command over the entire clan (because Mary Sue). He then establishes the rule that the humans aren't to be touched. When a group of the parents disobeys, they are captured. The entire clan awakened, and made to watch gruesome torture, where he casts heal spells to delay death until he's bored.
He promises to return the human females home, but never makes any effort to. Why would you when they happily work for you, and even stick to the original reason they were captured...one day after they were captured. But they are happy about it... Because it makes sense.../s
Skipping past the piddly stuff and grinding and what have you. Elves attack. The main character wins easily, and captures them...for breeding. "They must accept your advances." he says...as he fills the prison chamber with aphrodisiacs...
At last, the parent goblins get fed up, and decide to leave. They haven't done anything he's forbidden, so he sees them off, and even gifts them minor magic items to protect themselves with. "If they leave happy, then there's a lower chance they'll tell anyone about where we are." Is how he explains his reasoning.
And finally, we come to the end of the written books. He follows a human assassin unit who was going to attack an elf maiden of the lake. They kill off all the maiden's guards, and were about to kill her as well. Main character steps in, kills the assassins, captures the maiden, then ransoms her to the Elvish village for magic items.
(Oh, and eats the hearts and brains of everyone who died, before cremating them.)