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Okay so I was reading act 5 of Echoes and this doesn't make much sense to me.
SpoilerCelica: If Duma is gone, Rigel’s lands will turn as barren as Zofia’s have. Even more people will starve.
Isn't the whole thing with Duma that he doesn't bless the land unlike Mila due to believing it will make mankind weaker so how will they become even more barren when he wants man to toil?
Celica later tells Alm that it is impossible to deal with Duma but this doesn't seem to be a problem with Alm who thinks it is wise to fight an immortal deity despite this being as smart as trying to destroy a tank with bare hands.
SpoilerCelica: And even if you wanted to stop Duma, you can’t. Nothing can stop him now. Mila has chosen to seal Falchion away with her.
But somehow he manages to convince them that they can do the impossible.
SpoilerAlm: I’m not giving up on her. Every part of me—every fiber of my being—says this is wrong. So we’re going to take down Duma and bring Celica home safe!
Tobin: Sure, that all sounds fine and well. But how do we do that, exactly?
Mila's statue started glowing after they were all convinced that Duma would go down so that can't be used as an excuse.
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Here is a thread that you might hate at first but will learn to like it as you read on.
TLDR, a character being stupid or making dumb decisions =/= poorly written character. The author didn't state this but the converse of a character being well written due to being very intelligent is also not true. I think you have rated Robin highly just because he's intelligent but I think that's a very rudimentary reason to like a character. Same with Roy, him being intelligent doesn't really do much for him.
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Oh hey, Turtle. I talk with him on Discord sometimes. He can be rather long winded.
I agree with that conclusion. My stance on character writing has always been "You can have a character make bad decisions but not stupid ones" or in other words, decisions which lead to bad outcomes are fine if they're in character, but not if they don't make sense for that character. I do like Robin for his intelligence but that's not a point for or against him being a well written character. The fact that he's consistently written makes him a decent character at the very least, in my opinion. - Show next comments 3 more
