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raigarwylock · 2 months ago

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Ok I need to rant about last legacy and the writing for mc with sage.

The only character i hate in last legacy is mc (sage route cause i haven't read the others yet)

My perspective playing/reading this it upsets me how mc is towards sage because my partner is like, ALOT like sage in the red flag ways. And I've come to love him and embrace him where need be and i know how to love a man like that. Mc how ever does NOT. not to say Entirely doesn't, but there are an annoying (to me) amount of places where mc just feels dumb. there are so many times mc does or say some shit im like hoe what the hell are you doing.

Now as of im writing this ive read chapters 1-8 and i have spoiler context for the rest.

First thing that mc say that annoys me is everytime sage says "im a monster" and their response is "your not a monster" i dislike this because i feel it would be better to just accept him as a monster. He feels like a monster and pushes people away because they constantly have a standard above his head that they want him to reach and are always looking down at him because of that. If mc were to accept hes a monster and say i dont care if you are, that doesn't change how i feel about you/see you i feel like that would have done wonders in the sense of making a deeper connection.

Sage fears hurting mc making the "im a monster" comment as a self deprecative warning. If mc were to say they dont care or they aren't afraid of getting hurt, (kind of like in julians route tbh) would have been the right thing to say in my opinion. It just feels like through out it mc refuses to accept sage as who he is and holding his hand to go from there. There are aspects about him that will not change, like the fact of his corruption and how hard it can be fore him to deal with. That will always be a problem and i feel like mc either doesn't realize it or accept it fully. I completely understand the feeling of having a partner with some sort of "illness" that realistically you could loose them at any minute because of it and i feel like mc never grasps how bad of a thing corruption would be for sage.

Personally in the writing i would have made mc be more aware of this factor that they could loose sage and give them some anxiety from it, perhaps trying to hiding that anxiety and suppress it for the sake of them enjoying the moment they have together, and then later on opening up to sage about that anxiety in a similar way he opens up to mc. Though this could be different in later chapters being ive only read 1-8, but from what ive heard it doesn't get better.

Mc just doesn't care as much about him i feel. Like with my anxiety example, do they actually get like that worried at points or are they kind of just a emotionless husk floating through the story? (maybe not emotionless but yk)

I hate how sage was always treated as purely just the "dumb himbo" when clearly there were times where hes shown to be smart and perceptive enough to not just be dumb. To me it felt like when the weird kid gets reduced to being like the "pet" to a group, or just being dehumanizingly reduced to a simple trait like "dumb". A character like sage to be properly "dumb" and "smart" at the same time has to be written where they have a lot of repressed trauma which causes them to forget things easily, like short term. Hence sage's avoidance of certain topics (could trigger a memory wipe as a trauma response) or spontaneous behavior could have been more rooted in that. Hes in his 30s, hes seen alot and done alot, hes not stupid. Sage as a whole just wasnt written to be that deep and that upsets me honestly. His character as a person and as a design felt like there was so much potential but it was left as like a concept/shell or idea of him without much depth. He feels like a character your supposed to pull back the mask of this hypersexual exterior but only to find there was nothing written or created for him to have anything behind that mask.

Also what annoys me are the choice options of what would probably be considered the "right answer" or the "wrong answer". And now cause there are no endings this doesn't matter but i still want to rant anyway. Specifically in chapter 8 with elowen intruding, and that sage is extremely on edge. I understand the good ending choice being hearing elowen out but im annoyed that the choice that supports HIS feelings and fear of the situation is considered the bad ending. Like ok so saying i agree and trust my partner that I'm also skeptical of this woman who's tried to kill on on multiple occasions is the wrong answer? Its like hes being treated like an animal on a chain and like he cant handle himself, hes a person with thoughts and opinions that have cause and reason not some rabid animal with inexplicable violent outbursts.

As much as they try and play mc off as trusting sage i really feel like they dont. And i appreciate that its written with sage feeling that at times by reacting negatively and saying how mc is just going to be complaining, im just upset it was written like that in general. There should be a balance of the nagging and understanding and mc just nags too much without proper understanding or accepting of his emotions for it to be a good relationship.

I feel like though out all of this the answers are separated into 2 categories that it really feels shouldn't be as separate. You have the blunt "right" answers" that feel as though your just saying them because you have no consequence in the way you say them. They are very "this is what i feel is best for you" and regardless of if they are they feel very devaluing if his emotions. And then the "bad ending" answers feel like what you say to value some one emotions BEFORE you say the good ending answer of being blunt. There were so many times where i wished a "dismissive answer" was going to be actually waiting and properly bringing some issue back up later, but no its "right damn now or not at all" which is just unrealistic in an understanding relationship in general.

In conclusion, sage is a character type that was very much not the writing teams strong suit OR a character type they just did not actually care about enough to flesh out that deeply. And that saddens me.

#sage last legacy #sage lesath #teehee funny cat man #the last legacy

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