"I originally didn't like killing but the more I did it and the more I realized I was good at it, it became more appealing"
If that's what you're getting out of it, I think we're probably not disagreeing on much of substance :-)
"When I hear a character "fell," I usually associate that with "goes evil." It's very possible I'm mixing up idioms. XD;"
Okay, yeah. To me it also has a connotation of like "became sad or tragic," and what I liked about *the way I read* Megatron: Origin was that it seemed like his change was positive for him in some weird way. I liked that because it felt like a break from "evil always somehow secretly pwns itself in the end." (Which is not a bad trope in itself it's just... it's the norm, so seeing something different from it makes me EEEEEEEEEEEEE in excitement when it's done well.)
Which is why I was all HARRUMPH when Megatron turned himself in and became Sad, ostensibly just because That's What Evil Does rather than for what I saw as a clear in-character reason.
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Date: 2018-12-28 03:17 am (UTC)If that's what you're getting out of it, I think we're probably not disagreeing on much of substance :-)
"When I hear a character "fell," I usually associate that with "goes evil." It's very possible I'm mixing up idioms. XD;"
Okay, yeah. To me it also has a connotation of like "became sad or tragic," and what I liked about *the way I read* Megatron: Origin was that it seemed like his change was positive for him in some weird way. I liked that because it felt like a break from "evil always somehow secretly pwns itself in the end." (Which is not a bad trope in itself it's just... it's the norm, so seeing something different from it makes me EEEEEEEEEEEEE in excitement when it's done well.)
Which is why I was all HARRUMPH when Megatron turned himself in and became Sad, ostensibly just because That's What Evil Does rather than for what I saw as a clear in-character reason.