Crusader said:
Looks like the kettle's starting to boil due to extensive usage of? the Screw You Elves trope here. I think it would have exploded more if someone had ranted on how much they hate Jack Rakan and praised that Fate easily deleted the guy from existence despite being a broken ³bermensch.
Maybe we should make a thread about the Screw You Elves phenomenon where everyone can't vent out their reasons for dislking elves. Me, I can most of the time control myself when it comes to elves, but if you add both elves and elven katanas in the picture, my issues against elves seem to surface.
Maybe we should make a thread about the Screw You Elves phenomenon where everyone can't vent out their reasons for dislking elves. Me, I can most of the time control myself when it comes to elves, but if you add both elves and elven katanas in the picture, my issues against elves seem to surface.
1) them being Mary Sues who are never ever wrong (a certain book by a certain author helped a lot with this particular hatred. I'm sure you all know what I mean. It's also where my genocidal tendencies towards elves come from...)
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2) them being the Designated Victims that no one has sympathy for in-game, whom somehow I am expected to like no matter how or why they ended up as designated victims.
I don't mind wood elves that are more or less just another race, with their own quirks but ultimately basically just tall, beautiful pointy eared humans with hippie lifestyles. I also don't mind Drow because for all that they are at the mercy of a cruel goddess, they are also sadistic sociopaths even when they ESCAPE said goddess's grasp (Drizzt is the exception, not the rule... most surface Drow aren't nearly as pleasant), so they are hardly Designated Victims and more or less deserve their lot in life.
In dragon age the screw you elves trope is turned around pretty much playing city elf makes me think that whatever the elves have done they've payed a hundredfold by the time of DA:O remember in the Orlesian empire elves are property.