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@arjun3Posted 16d ago

Does anyone else get bored by protagonists existing outside the power system?

Whenever there's an established power system with its own rules that the majority of characters have to follow, except the MC.

Say everyone gets a class that decides which skills they can use, plus their strengths and weaknesses. It would be interesting to watch the MC work around theirs. Except no. The MC got "Class: Null," which just means they can use every skill that exists. No limits, nothing to adapt around. They get to be another magic swordsman.

I genuinely don't get the point of building an entire system of power if it isn't going to matter for the focus character.

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G @glassfable 16d ago

Counterpoint, I love a completely broken mc. What kills it is when the world stops throwing anything at him that can actually hurt. Give him the busted power, then give the enemy one too.

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D @daenguyen 16d ago

Half of it is pacing I think. You want a world where climbing those ranks takes decades, but nobody wants to write a forty year story, so a cheat gets invented to skip the boring middle.

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D @devi97 16d ago

Cradle is still my go to answer for this. Lindon is talented but you sit through every failure with him, so nothing feels handed over. Most books just say he trained for a month and cut straight to the win.

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R @rezahaust 16d ago

Its the laziest possible way to make him exceptional. Like winning the marathon because you brought a scooter, sure you crossed the line first but what did you prove.

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C @crimsonfox 16d ago

And the once in an era power is always void magic. Unlocked every class? Congratulations, magic swordsman again.

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M @maya_tan 16d ago

me reading the blurb at this point:

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L @lenarossi 16d ago

You're forgetting that he is a Very Special Boy. Nobody in the systems entire recorded history has been this special. He tripped over a dying god and woke up with unbounded potential in, brace yourself, void magic.

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N @noah64 16d ago

It isn't all handed to him though. The god of arrogant young masters locked him in a timeloop first, very tragic.

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K @kira_yam 16d ago

Which is where he picked up all nine thousand skills.

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R @ren67 16d ago

And obviously a thousand year old all seeing god of punishing protagonists had no way to see that one coming. None at all.

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S @saltscript 16d ago

Flawless. No notes.

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