I think I've told you the story of how when Moti mentioned one of his friends was going to be joining Arcana, I was kinda worried about how an "outsider" would mesh with the group. ^_~ (Although you might have written a SC part by then. I'm not sure.)
But yeah, the empathy didn't work out quite so well. I kinda remember a discussion with Ard about how the Arcana were gradually losing some of their cards' defining characteristics - Haruko's empathy being one of them. Still, that's partly a function of characters changing within the game.
No character ever turns out quite as planned. Satoshi and Chie, for example, started diverging from their initial concepts almost immediately. (Particularly Chie, who instantly hit it off with Rei, thus altering several aspects of her personality. However, she'd argue that I just read her wrong before I got to know her.) And while Arcana's always been a dark game, it's undergone quite a few significant increases in severity. (Darkness darkness darkness darkness!)
I think if I were reworking Satoshi, I'd tighten his powerset as well. He was my first RP character as well as my first BESM character, so a lot of his initial design was, "Hey, this sounds cool!" It led to problems later when I had CP but didn't have something to really focus it on.
As for his personality... he was supposed to be a lot more proactive, really. But part of it came from just being overwhelmed by his situation, and eventually, part of it came from the feeling that he'd fallen into a hole and I couldn't find a good way out of it. (And then I stopped caring altogether, which didn't help.) It's not quite Flanderization, but it was on its way there. He did still have his moments of snarky humor, though. I think every Arcana PC needs them.
I still like Haruko. I think she's a fun character, although I admit to laughing at her as well as laughing with her. I'm also curious about how a reworked version would go.
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Date: 2008-01-15 09:28 pm (UTC)I think I've told you the story of how when Moti mentioned one of his friends was going to be joining Arcana, I was kinda worried about how an "outsider" would mesh with the group. ^_~ (Although you might have written a SC part by then. I'm not sure.)
But yeah, the empathy didn't work out quite so well. I kinda remember a discussion with Ard about how the Arcana were gradually losing some of their cards' defining characteristics - Haruko's empathy being one of them. Still, that's partly a function of characters changing within the game.
No character ever turns out quite as planned. Satoshi and Chie, for example, started diverging from their initial concepts almost immediately. (Particularly Chie, who instantly hit it off with Rei, thus altering several aspects of her personality. However, she'd argue that I just read her wrong before I got to know her.) And while Arcana's always been a dark game, it's undergone quite a few significant increases in severity. (Darkness darkness darkness darkness!)
I think if I were reworking Satoshi, I'd tighten his powerset as well. He was my first RP character as well as my first BESM character, so a lot of his initial design was, "Hey, this sounds cool!" It led to problems later when I had CP but didn't have something to really focus it on.
As for his personality... he was supposed to be a lot more proactive, really. But part of it came from just being overwhelmed by his situation, and eventually, part of it came from the feeling that he'd fallen into a hole and I couldn't find a good way out of it. (And then I stopped caring altogether, which didn't help.) It's not quite Flanderization, but it was on its way there. He did still have his moments of snarky humor, though. I think every Arcana PC needs them.
I still like Haruko. I think she's a fun character, although I admit to laughing at her as well as laughing with her. I'm also curious about how a reworked version would go.