Wangshu Innâs commissions are so funny, like. Xiao is out there all angsty âI have to continue my vigil in this never ending war to protect the mortalsâ and the Innâs managers call you in like âPlease kill the monsters nearby before Xiao notices them, heâs scaring the customers.ââ
at first I was like âwhatâs even the point, AOE elemental damage is still the same,â but then I thought about it and like. If I was a guest staying at the inn and went to my window and saw idk, Ayakaâs blob of snow burst and her yelling âMy apologies! Kamisato Art!â, I would think oh, itâs someone using their vision to kill the monsters, no big deal.
but if I saw flashes of green and black from sky to earth and loud screeching of âUSELESS! WORTHLESS! USELESS! LAMENT! WORTHLESS! DISSAPEAR!â, I would indeed be disturbed.
but then the stairs fixing commission I donât get at all. How does Xiao keep breaking the fucking stairs??? There are no monsters at the Inn! Does he crush into them like a pigeon into a glass door? Is he blacking out and in this state enraged by the stairs??Â
taking Xiao to stairwell fixing commission is basically like poking puppy into a chewed slipper and going âLook what you did!â
I donât want characters to make Morally Correct Choices, I want them to make choices which are Consistent With Their Fucking Characterization
Literally nothing throws me out of a story faster than a character suddenly and very obviously doing something that clashes with their characterization and established goals because itâs what the author would do in their place.