Comments | vore_and_peace: ESSAY: On why Jinana chose to [SPOILER]. Also awakenings.

vore_and_peace

ESSAY: On why Jinana chose to [SPOILER]. Also awakenings.

Mar 04, 2008 08:11

So, in my app, I avoided certain spoilers. I did this because I know a bunch of people ARE just playing, and it's a scene that, if early-ish in the game, definitely has more impact if you see it and have to play through it than if you hear about it ( Read more... )

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ovoretherainbow March 4 2008, 18:37:08 UTC

That's a good point! I hadn't thought of it like that. I do kind of wonder what she would've done if she hadn't found people capable of taking care of her tribe after she died now though.

vore_and_peace March 5 2008, 02:48:09 UTC

Well, here's my headcanon on that ( ... )

ovoretherainbow March 6 2008, 04:09:23 UTC

...ilu. ♥

That all makes a lot of sense to me. I'd...put my estimates of the time a little higher than yours, I think (mostly because I can't wrap my head around ending a war with 6 separate parties that fast, which is probably just my failure of imagination!), but still within the same general range. I've had a hard time getting into Jinana's head, but I hadn't put it in context of how little time she had to think about it. Really, thinking of how rushed her decisions were just makes me respect her more. Preparing a suicide on incomplete information while starving in less than a day with provisions to protect her tribe is going to fail in some ways, but she did about as well as she could've to minimize the damage. That actually makes me respect her more.

vore_and_peace March 6 2008, 15:40:58 UTC

Yeah, the amount of time the war wraps up is what boggles me too, but given how tight the game is, it often leaves me going "but, but, ...okaaaay" because. While setting the bar higher is fine for me, then I try to write fic and find that I don't have wiggle room for most of it because like. "Some weird shit happened! Let's immediately go and talk to the Vanguards. Now we're back! Before we can even finish a conversation the Karma Temple is summoning us! Okay, that was a weird conversation, what should we do? ...Okay, to the Maribel base!" It only seems to get tighter too, much to my frustration, once other people are doing things in the background incredibly quickly too (like... While the Embryon are distracted killing Bat, Varin went right from that convo with him to invading Vishudha apparently WHAT). SO IN SHORT I have... very little idea of how much time it took, I just have this horrified conviction it took waaay less than it should have ( ... )