I don't know what it says about the content of this book that when you added the ETA, my mind immediately jumped to "Jerk One and Jerk Two are probably mind-controlling him to make him feel sympathy."
It could help to explain his absolutely bizarre behavior, but the fact that Douglass relies on it for everything is not only unsettling, it's disgusting. Why give the characters free will at all if everything they do is going to be because of mind-control?
(Again, there's no proof whatsoever that this is the case with Axis, so this is just me ranting. It's more likely that Douglass is just that bad of a writer.)
- I think it is the sight of the BattleAxe disagreeing with Brothers of the Seneschal, rather.
Oh, you're right! I didn't even consider how it would look from an outside perspective for them to even disagree in the first place, let alone so aggressively.
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I don't know what it says about the content of this book that when you added the ETA, my mind immediately jumped to "Jerk One and Jerk Two are probably mind-controlling him to make him feel sympathy."
It could help to explain his absolutely bizarre behavior, but the fact that Douglass relies on it for everything is not only unsettling, it's disgusting. Why give the characters free will at all if everything they do is going to be because of mind-control?
(Again, there's no proof whatsoever that this is the case with Axis, so this is just me ranting. It's more likely that Douglass is just that bad of a writer.)
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Oh, you're right! I didn't even consider how it would look from an outside perspective for them to even disagree in the first place, let alone so aggressively.