<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=252393.msg12484925#msg12484925">Quote from: pdragon on 10-07-2016, 10:02:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">My only issue is how well emotional gravitas is going to play alongside an anachronistic space teen and a dude who's power is summoning cold cuts. Kind of a weird juxtaposition of tones.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Only as well as you make it! I never intended for the game to be super-serious all the time; it will have a good deal of levity as it intentionally explore the idea that sometimes, heroes take themselves a bit too seriously, though there will certainly be moments that are very dark, too. There's a lot of space for some heavy but incredibly compelling interaction between even the more seemingly-ridiculous characters. It's all fun and games until you<strong>really</strong>think about what it means to be abducted by aliens and experimented upon for decades then deposited back in a world you don't understand where everything and everyone you know is gone (to use Rose as an example) and there's nothing i appreciate more than a Lethal Joke Character (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LethalJokeCharacter). Hell, the whole premise behind this game is exploring how people with seemingly ridiculous powers, crippling flaws, traumatic pasts to overcome, and other difficulties rise (or fail to rise) to the challenge of filling in for people who are by all indications better than them.<br/><br/>For example,  Sway: he could easily be a superhero, and a successful one, but he lacks a crucial element that matters more than powers. As you may have noticed, he's the most powerful member of the cast thus far and could actually be a damn good superhero - he's even quite courageous and a good guy to the core, when he's forced to be - but there's just...something there. He doesn't have the hidden 'x' factor that makes a hero - his loved ones werent murdered before his eyes, he isn't an alien from another planet, he isn't a ninja or a super-soldier or a sorcerer, and he has no enemies or bitter rivals to drive him to greatness. He's just an uncommonly intelligent guy who happens to be a psychic, and a total waste of perfectly good powers. Worst of all, he's unaware of his unfulfilled potential.<br/><br/>That's the kind of thing i'm going for - the stuff that makes characters who struggle despite their issues.