These are the protagonists that people love, but I have one major problem with them.
The characterization of the protagonist is foul, I’ll give him the coveted “Not a Simp” moniker but looking at him closer he’s not really all that 3Dimensional.
He’s really just a ruthless power seeker and I guess people really want that out of a character in a sea of backbone-less characters that forgive everybody and trust to easily.
So it feels like this author saw comments on other stories like this and figured he’d take away all the qualities of those characters and only use what’s left, so the longer this story goes on the more lifeless and boring this character becomes, because to me he becomes just as predictable as the characters that are too trusting, or are too nice, or who actually want to be in a reciprocal relationship with someone. So in an effort to do something different you’re basically doing the same thing with fewer or extra steps depending on how you look at it.
He has a one track mind that kind feels like it’s steamrolling the story at this point, I feel like I’m just being dragged along and like I said before it feels like the Author is just trying to avoid all the things people complain about in stories like this to it’s own detriment.
tl:dr
>Protagonist just as predictable as “OP Wimpy Simps”
>Story has all the same pitfalls of the typical rise to overpower story except the protagonist has a mindless “Conquerors” motivation
>Removal of fluff and/or filler making the story feel dry and repetitive (Negative Situation —> Power Gain —> Resolve Situation with no break in the loop)
Lorisor
These are the protagonists that people love, but I have one major problem with them.
The characterization of the protagonist is foul, I’ll give him the coveted “Not a Simp” moniker but looking at him closer he’s not really all that 3Dimensional.
He’s really just a ruthless power seeker and I guess people really want that out of a character in a sea of backbone-less characters that forgive everybody and trust to easily.
So it feels like this author saw comments on other stories like this and figured he’d take away all the qualities of those characters and only use what’s left, so the longer this story goes on the more lifeless and boring this character becomes, because to me he becomes just as predictable as the characters that are too trusting, or are too nice, or who actually want to be in a reciprocal relationship with someone. So in an effort to do something different you’re basically doing the same thing with fewer or extra steps depending on how you look at it.
He has a one track mind that kind feels like it’s steamrolling the story at this point, I feel like I’m just being dragged along and like I said before it feels like the Author is just trying to avoid all the things people complain about in stories like this to it’s own detriment.
tl:dr
>Protagonist just as predictable as “OP Wimpy Simps”
>Story has all the same pitfalls of the typical rise to overpower story except the protagonist has a mindless “Conquerors” motivation
>Removal of fluff and/or filler making the story feel dry and repetitive (Negative Situation —> Power Gain —> Resolve Situation with no break in the loop)