<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=324381.msg15582046#msg15582046">Quote from: Pumpkin Seeds on 04-09-2020, 14:02:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The question regarding his parents will let him pick something for which he has 0 ranks.  So you can pick up your duelist skill there if you are concerned about being able to do that.  So if you are in agreement with your Clan and approve of them, then go ahead and take the +5 glory ranks for being a good Dragon.  : ) <br/><br/><br/>Also I will have stuff up for your lord and your betrothed soon.  As I said though, is there anything you want from either.<br/><br/><br/>Also, Marie I will have some follow up questions and hopefully some questions for you soon as well. <br/><br/>Zaer, you still around?  I know I haven't had much to direct at you but just checking.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think we've got the input on my lord covered.<br/><br/>My betrothed is a tougher question.  I'm trying to remember something.  That's right, I asked if it would be too much of an anime trope.<br/><br/>She's sixteen and a maiden.  She is a Mirumoto bushi.  She's very serious about duty, and can find me moveable.  The source of our conflict is stuff that hasn't come out in our discussions of my character yet.<br/><br/>Takehiko is a big dreamer--just the kind who chooses the dreams most important to him and takes decisive action to make them a reality.  When he's doing that, his whimsical side isn't entirely clear, 'til he makes a shonen anime speech about what he aims to achieve or what's important to him.<br/><br/>My fiance, however, is very serious, and very duty bound.  Secretly she loves my idealism but she can't make herself accept it as mature.<br/><br/>Likewise, when Takehiko actually takes the time to be sociable, his flirty and downright lecherous side comes out.  And--given that that side rarely has chance for proper expression in the life of a man devoted to mastering two arts--his flirty side tends to go rather overboard when it has that chance to come out.<br/><br/>My fiance is, of course, extremely proper, so she knows that I'm entitled to my dalliances and she is not.  This is, of course, patently unjust, and she tends to take that frustration out on me.  It expresses itself in her opinion that immature and need a good wallop upside the head.<br/><br/>in comedy anime, a girl like that is called a<em>tsundere</em>.  Do you think we can balance that against the level of realism you want in this game?<br/><br/><br/>