Honestly the only time I liked a antagonist that had DiD was Doppio in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. It’s pure anime logic but Araki did get some things right for the time. Like the amnesia barriers. Or how he’s not aware he’s part of a system. Some alters have to be told and educated about that stuff.
I really, really hated the South Park episode when we find out Tuong Lu Kim was an alternate personality, and they chose not to help him.
Yeaaaah, that didn’t go very well for Sia.
Rule number 1: if you’re going to write a story that focuses on a particular group, listen to the feedback of people in that group.
It’s a minefield issue… either you navigate the minefield safely… or something goes wrong and boom.
If Blizzard did this… they would be risking a blowback as bad as that Sia person is catching over that movie dealing with mental illness issues.
Also… some issues may hit too close to home for people that actually deal with these issues and could cause a blowup over that. It’s best to avoid that minefield.
Honestly, I think if you approach the characters with empathy, you will find touches of this everywhere.
The same is true in the real world. It’s amazing what a little thought for other people can reveal.
Yeah. Anytime I try to be all “Hm I think this character should have this” I at least try to do my homework. Even if it’s often depressing. I do that to be respectful.
There’s a tv show… The Good Doctor or whatever it is called… I watched it because I have a thing for medical dramas… but I could see there were going to be people not happy this show exists. I made it to the end of season 1 and didn’t go back (I’m cursed… if I actually like a show while it’s airing… it ends… it’s like someone monitors what I watch and specifically targets me to make my viewing choices difficult…)
The Good Doctor is actually one of the good shows that deal with autistic characters.
Yes it exists in wow like it exists in the real world
They introduced plenty of it this expansion
Mental illness in this game usually revolves around mind control or possession lol.
The butchering of Draenei children had such an effect on Saurfang that he couldn’t eat pork.
(High Overlord Saurfang nods.)
I think it was the sounds of the draenei children that unnerved most of them … You never forget … Have you ever been to Jaggedswine Farm? When the swine are of age for the slaughter … It’s that sound. The sound of the swine being killed … It resonates the loudest. Those are hard times for us older veterans.
There’s more to the conversation but just to jump to the point:
Garrosh: How have you managed to survive for so long, Saurfang? Not fallen victim to your own memories?
Saurfang: I don’t eat pork …
It’s an Unhealthy World we live in, there is all kinds of illness’s people are dealing with. Yes, people don’t come in out of game with mental illness. They already have one.
Depicting mental illness is a tough subject to do right. Brandon Sanderson has been doing it in the Stormlight Archive and by book four some of it is pretty hard to read. And these are 1k page books each. I don’t know if WoW is a good format for trying to depict something as serious and in depth as mental illness needs.
Even top tier writers struggle with getting it right.
The group that did Hellblade did pretty well, but that was an actual design goal of the game. WoW could so it with inventive side quests…but I would hate to see them tackle it as a part of the main story.
Ooooo hellblade was so good. I can’t play it for too long though because of my stupid misophonia. The voices are cool and all but it pokes the tickly “ew stop it” part of my ears lol
I have OCD and anxiety and I have no problem with this being spoken about in the Forums. It’s nice to think that there might be some characters in the WoW universe that share my “problems”. Art imitates Life and Life imitates Art.
I’m more talking about the op. There’s more to schizophrenia than assuming someone is crazy or hallucinating
I totally agree.
Was buds with someone with schizophrenia. We’d just be chilling and sometimes if he was experiencing something like a hallucination I would have him look through my phone as it was in photo / video mode. It was a neat trick to show him they were hallucinating since what they were seeing wouldn’t be seen in the phone.