Makin' my blorbos smooch is what gets me through the hard times

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[(Anonymous)]

yeah I also was surprised at this framing, and wondered if anon slightly misspoke, since it is kind of a false dichotomy.

personally, I don't play from superhero canons, and also have become increasingly fond of games that strongly nerf or outright remove characters' canon powers—even though the characters I do play almost universally have something supernatural in their canons/backstories. that is because what draws me to these characters is specifically the more extreme events in their lives, rather than the powers themselves (which are more like enablers for those backstory elements). stuff like personal tragedies, unhealthy coping mechanisms, "alien"-seeming moral codes, and more positive traits like courage or determination in impossible circumstances.

in "real life" I don't want to have tumultuous romance drama where one character killed the other's brother or something and now we’re not communicating properly because of deep personal pain combined with the weight of old secrets. but getting to immerse myself in that perspective and add those melodramatic songs to my rp playlists? that's the shit.


…but all this probably isn't that surprising to OP, because I doubt they're exclusively playing Everyman Protagonist from slice-of-life sitcoms. maybe rather than the "ordinary" and "relatable" elements, they actually meant something more like the literal vulnerability that less powerful characters might have?