Post by Xxsuperheroxx on Feb 13, 2023 5:24:50 GMT -6
I posted this on another site which I no longer use so thought to scab it here for now. I had thought to make a provocative debate on the perception of evil in RPG's. When Grimm came out they gave the perception that Adalind was evil. Every one hated the Hexenbiest tell I made a case for her in which I changed some peoples might. I miss those days and a great deal of bebates and discussions are now deleted. I wish I had backs up my posts hence my sketch pad here.
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I remember when Grimm first aired. the doer of good fighting the evil monsters. A show about fairy tales and monsters. I remember hours of fun on the IMDB message board talking about how evil the Grimms were.
I am a notorious Shipper I shipped Trip and T'Pol on startrek.com. So when Adalind made eye contact with the Grimm in the very first episode I was hooked and there is where the ship began it's journey. A hexenbiest and a Grimm the whole site went sideways. and so the argument of being born inherently evil as a race or is evil raised to be evil.
Evil is in how things are perceived in this case a history of a genocidal magical race hunting down and killing all Wesen. Yes the Hero a genocidal killer of innocent Wesen. A century old war between the human race and the Wesen most of whom just want to live out their lives not getting killed by a crazy blood thirty Grimm. Poor little Wesen children raise to fear the black eyes evil Grimms and for good reason the Grimms were genocidal mass murders of thousands even millions of Wesen.
Throughout the show poor Adalind was so abused by her mother, Captain Renard, the royals and yes even the blood line of Nicks! They stole her first born child.
It has a lot to do with the us and them frame of mind we are all raised to believe in. We are the good people those people over there are the bad people. We are raised to hate those other "evil" people as they raise their children to hate us the evil people doers here.
In the end Adalind was a good mother and a good mate to the Grimm as the Grimm crusaders of old took Hexenbiest wives. The Grimm powers came from mating with the hexenbiest the same with the royals. Adalind was awesome a fine intelligent educated woman who raise two next generation Genocide Grimm crusaders!
In World of Warcraft there is the Horde and the Alliance both sides work as societies I do not see why we can't have Horde style Player Characters. I see a lot of people on youtube express their off opinion about how evil campaigning always goes horrible wrong. The GameMaster has a set perspective on horde style Player characters their all evil and eat babies alive so they sabotage giving the impression that if you are truly evil you are unworthy of trust and in the end you will turn on your party because that is what inherently evil people do. If you are not in this list of approved good creatures then what ever you pick is evil.
So we do not get to play Drow or Trolls like in World of Warcraft or NeverWinter. Pathfinder did away with a lot of player characters with the new release of edition 2. I don't know maybe people are just inherently evil and can't get past the evil they wish to do hence the game designers did away with the player character races they perceive as inherently evil. We are so use to doing evil we no longer perceive ourselves doing it. "I had to pick the lesser of the two evils" By picking one you did evil you just rationalized it justified it then you downgraded doing evil to something less then evil. Never thinking not picking either was the right option.
I miss my female troll warrior. two Greataxes one in each hand neon purple hair braided a she hulk of death I killed many alliance players. The closest I can get to her here is a sad little orc. arrgggg the humanity. Oh well bluh bluh bluh.