I actually had just mapped out a major many part story that was going to tie into Aya's history in the city, and bring her back to it. Â And well.. never mind. Â There's just no tension left into it. Â I may still use it as the foundation for something, but the underlying characters and plot are just pointless now since the conflict is entirely resolved by the collapse of church authority.
I've never liked the trajectory of Ishgard in HW, especially the casting of the Ishgardian Church as cardbord cut-out comic book villains. I feel like its just a loss of terrific potential - and a disappointing way of resolving tension for characters from the city.
They write their story, obviously, to be a video game story rather than to provide a setting for original stories, and if I really want to I should be able to write something similar to what I was planning on. But given that I was looking to make a major summer writing project of it I'm really rather disappointed at the moment. I should probably be happy there being absolutely nothing at all keeping Aya from returning to the city, but its about as anti-climactic as it comes. That isn't the way I'd wanted to go about it.
I've never liked the trajectory of Ishgard in HW, especially the casting of the Ishgardian Church as cardbord cut-out comic book villains. I feel like its just a loss of terrific potential - and a disappointing way of resolving tension for characters from the city.
They write their story, obviously, to be a video game story rather than to provide a setting for original stories, and if I really want to I should be able to write something similar to what I was planning on. But given that I was looking to make a major summer writing project of it I'm really rather disappointed at the moment. I should probably be happy there being absolutely nothing at all keeping Aya from returning to the city, but its about as anti-climactic as it comes. That isn't the way I'd wanted to go about it.
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