Writing an edgy character. How much is too much?

Well, for starters, you haven’t rolled a death knight or Illidari. There’s a good start for not being too edge, or a bad start for not being edge enough, depending on your point of view.

In my eyes, there are two forms of edge. One is the parody of edge, where someone goes too far down the rabbit hole to try to make their character mature and fails entirely/purposely fails just to capture what makes someone believably edgy. The other is far more rational; for all their faults, the Scarlet Crusade could certainly be considered edgy, given their racial superiority, religious authority, and blind zealotry. There has to be rational reasons for why someone is some way.

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