<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=260005.msg12849053#msg12849053">Quote from: Sessha on 19-12-2016, 00:04:41</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> Sorry for the double post but I have been meaning to get to this part this whole afternoon. The problem still comes in the fact that my character would be maybe 17 by this point in history which is still in that whole coming of age thing I was wanting to avoid. Like I said I've been watching way too many animes with teens as the main hero and also with some of the recycled plot lines and stuff and it's getting a little vexing is all. Like I mentioned before I've basically re-watched Macross Delta twice in the last two weeks. It wasn't as good as I originally thought. Which honestly despite some of the stuff in it I've been hesitant to call it but I guess I will say it now. <br/><br/> It sucked. If you had problems getting through M7 then skip Delta altogether as it's got a bit more of the BS in it. It sadly plays to the LCD in <span class="bbc_u"><strong>Japan</strong></span>. On a global market it has received mixed to bad reviews. Like I said it had some good concepts and it did a lot to build on the Macross Universe but otherwise it sucked. Go watch Frontier. It, despite Alto being emo-pretty boy(Yes I do like Alto's design.) was a better told story and had better visuals and most of the characters were better developed. ...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Thanks for the warning. As for Frontier, I was watching a lot of Youtube videos yesterday and did comes across the final battle of Frontier more or less by accident. If the big endfight of Frontier is typical of the show I probably won't enjoy it all that much. Maybe I was too sleepy, maybe I am getting too old for this stuff, but things just moved too fast. I found the fight scenes just a bit too hectic for my taste. The whole thing struck me as "too much, too quickly". I guess that's just me.  ;D<br/><br/>Now, TV aside, we still have the age problem of your character. And frankly, I don't want to advance the timeline. Not only does a setting ca. 2032 allow for some interesting coming-of-age stories (for those who want them), it also allows older characters who were around during Space War One a chance to still be in active service. That's something I realized while working on a few NPCs: Anyone who was already in military service during the original series will, at least, be in their early or mid 40s now. If we set the game a few years later, those folks will be pushing 50, and (to me) that means they will no longer be viable player characters in a fighter squadron. I don't want to close that door completely.<br/><br/>Where that leaves us would be a character who might be 19, maybe 20 (not 17, she doesn't have to be that young). Still young, but the "coming of age" aspect doesn't have to be played out with her. If she grew up on a scouting fleet she will have grown up in a structured, military environment that might not have allowed much room for youthful insecurities. I know the "army brat" is just another time-worn cliche in many ways, but perhaps we can still make it work? (Or perhaps we can, once you get over OD-ing on anime.  ;))