And you are wrong because this is a rather insulting accusation towards a professional writer, suggesting that they would be emotionally compromised by fictional characters are if they were real, especially when having experience as a horror writer would have placed her many times in situations where she would herself have written about bad things happening to characters people might have like.
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No, Iâm not saying sheâd be deliberately unprofessional. But as I said above, the difference frequently shows between something a person enjoyed writing and/or believes in and something they just wrote for a paycheck. (Sometimes itâs worse due to overpartiality, yes.)
Roux seemed to quite enjoy writing and everyone in it based on the interview thoâŚ
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Did you actually listen to any of her interviews? Or did you just hear ânight elf fanâ and write her off immediately? She pretty much says she loves every character she was writing and she expands on them all when asked about them. She even gives moments to forgotten characters like JI and she loves her original troll character and talks a lot about Nathanos, she absolutely loves Bwomsomdi too. She even wrote the Lorâthemar and Thalyssra short story.
It seems more like your problem is you have zero clue about her interviews or the book.
The night elves werenât even really a factor in this book. The book speaks for itself, and if she wasnât able to write a horde story she wouldnât be a professional writer and probably wouldnât get work again from Blizzard and it would be a signal to other companies that might want to hire her for additional work that she just phones it in because she doesnât care.
Itâs clear from what you are asking here, just because she like the night elves, particularly the nature themes, means she wouldnât be professional enough to write a good story. Night elves were irrelevant to the story and barely got any screen time. If you are a night elf only fan, you probably shouldnât even waste your time with this book.
Reading the book should be enough to convince you though. I wonât be able to convince you because and this point you are just going to double and triple down on saying she isnât a good writer for this book because she likes the night elves and she can never like multiple things at once.
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Yes well, first, thatâs not the same as being a fan of both factions. Second, Christie Golden claimed to like the Forsaken while she was destroying them.
They donât have to be. Itâs just that you can often tell when someone is struggling to come up with something nice to say about a character, even if they eventually succeed.
You know what? Iâm just gonna quit reading every time you tell me what I think, because you refuse to listen to my requests to stop.
And I am not saying you are wrong or right on your assessment on a personâs enjoyment having an affect on their writing.
I am saying you are wrong in accusing a professional writer as potentially having something against fictional characters that harmed other fictional character to the point of emotional compromise.
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When did I say emotional compromise? The worst possibility Iâve laid out is that sheâd be writing unenthusiastically as a duty, and that happens.
Anyway, I said she had REASON to dislike Horde characters, not that she absolutely did. And that this reason potentially made her not the best choice for the assignment.
On the same token she claimed in an interview she was a night elf fan and didnât do anything for the night elves here. I wouldnât suggest this book to night elf fans, I would suggest it to troll and bwomsomdi fans or people who want the alliance to be slightly more morally grey.
This is again your problem, you donât believe a writer is able to write a good story for one side if they like something on the other. This is a degenerate line of thinking saying âonly horde fans should write horde stories! only alliance fans should write alliance stories! Otherwise they wonât be able to work!â.
A writer can separate themselves from the fiction they are writing, and any professional writer will try to write a good story.
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Stopped reading.
The follow core of your point:
You yourself also laid out why such accusations are wrong:
And yet you avoid withdrawing your accusations by prefacing your backtracking with a maybe, as if your accusation was fair in the first place.
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âEmotionally compromisedâ is an overstatement of what I meant by that. I just meant that she might be struggling to engage with Horde characters and that the writing might therefore be of lower quality than what she would have written if sheâd been able to do a whole book about Night Elves or other characters that she had actual enthusiasm for. And by lower quality I mean less engaging, with less âspark.â
Also, where this whole thing started was less about whether she is able to deliver a good book or not and more about the fact that of all the writers Blizzard could have gone to for this book, they chose the one who gets tattoos of Night Elves.
More like long-unnecessary.
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Have you considered the Horde doesnât have a leg to stand on? Iâd love you to write a believable non fanfic tier passage justifying the War of Thorns.
Yes. You canât blame the Horde because Sylvanas and six catapult operators went nuts.
Especially not after Makâgora was issued and the Warchief was removed.
And some shamans and mages. Also no one listened to Saurfang when he told them to stop. But even Nathanos looked at Sylvanas as if wondering if she hit her head hard.
The War of Thorns was just⌠horrible. For everyone involved. I wish theyâd retcon it.
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Yeah lets just ignore everything about the unjustified war except the end.
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You can justify the war, not so much the genocide. Well, you could justify the genocide too, but itâs never going to be on a moral level, only pragmatic.
Give me one non stupid reason the War of Thorns was justified. Remember the cannon reason is âThey might hit us first if theyâre boredâ
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- Attacking the Warchief of the Horde.
- Flooding Orgrimmar with Spies.
- Caliaâs presence at the Arathi meeting coming off as usurping Sylvanasâ rule.
- Conflict over Azerite down in Silithus.
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From what I have seen of the book (since i canât get the damn thing yet) the author seems to have done a pretty solid job. That said, I can see where my fellow horde players annoyances come from. After BfA, Blizzard frankly has to resell the Horde to me in a way that doesnât make me have contempt for it and a lot of what we are getting isnât doing that. BfA, particularly after MoP and the lack of involvement of the Horde since then, really badly damaged the Hordeâs identity and sense of worth to the point where it is hard not to be frustrated with the place Blizzard has driven the Horde to. Narratively many of these plot moments make sense but just remind and rub salt into the wound caused by the treatment the Horde has gotten for the past ten years. It is like being constantly reminded of humiliation.
If anything, I realized my current spark of interest in Shadowlands is caused by how uninvolved the factions, including the Horde, are. Actually Thrall and Baineâs involvement got a firm âMehâ from me and came off as the horde being pathetic again. It isnât a good sign when a player is glad when they donât have their faction around. If the Alliance burned down Orgrimmar while we were in the Shadowlands I think my response would more be âMy god, the Horde is uselessâ rather than âHow dare the Alliance!â.
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