I agree that they need a good heterosexual relationship. A good one and not some rushed story. Maybe a bit generic in the GW2 universe but making the pair human would make it easier to relate to them and such. Another thing with these characters is that we need more dialogue between them. We don’t get much from the living story updates.
My character idea. O_o
What if they killed Jory off and Kas eventually found herself some male? That’d be awesome to me. Needs to be a strong mysterious character though, perhaps somewhat generic but if they twist it in the right way he could be awesome.
Imo though they need a strong male lead that we can relate to. The character needs to be powerful and full of conviction, not some Braham style Mother’s boy. Make him more alpha! Just not over the top. He also needs to be a bit darker than the rest of the cast. Arghhh! We need a powerful warrior and leader! Not some pushover! Another thing is that he needs to have more meat on him than most. Most of the male character models are rather skinny and not very warrior like. Also for the love of god please have the best voice actor Anet can find.
I know it’s a balance thing but one of the “Hero” Npcs like Thackery getting annihilated in under 10 seconds just ruins it for me. Kills dragons but get’s kitten d by a couple of bandits easy mode. He needs to be a useful npc in combat. That in itself would make the character feel more important and such.
Also please don’t give him hair like Braham’s or something. One of the reasons I don’t like Braham is the way he has his hair. It does not suit a guy his size. I don’t think it suits Norn’ in general. Maybe the women though.
With the female, she needs to be soft and feminine. Less “Hurr let’s kill kitten!” Not as much of a fighter than most of the other females we’ve seen but more of a pacifist?
Guess my idea is somewhat generic but Anet have some creative writers. I’m sure they can mold them into something more unique and less cookie cutter.
I bet Blizzard could do it easily…They’ve got some awesome writers over there.
Your idea is about everything that is wrong with the writing of most male and female characters. so i really hope you are trolling. Firstly what you are describing is a near perfect stereotypical male with one or two non fatal character flaws, mysterious yet charming and probably a dark past as well. Not only is this totally overdone, it is also boring as well, since your character is already nearly perfect, there will be no evolution,which is needed for well rounded characters. Even trahearne ( who has a great back story, scholar needing to accept his responsibilities and who needs to step up his game), who’s in game part lacked a lot, would be a lot more interesting, because of his flaws( lack of self respect) make for a good evolution(if only the last arc of storyline wasn’t so rushed).
secondly, killing off an existing, much more interesting character in a gay relationship for the sake of a heterosexual relationship is very problematic. It would also make light of Kasmeer’s feelings, letting her lover die and she conveniently ends up in the arms of a male alpha hero, who immediately makes her his. Most likely she would end up grieving for months or even years, so it would be hard to make such a relationship work in the living story arcs.
And none of that ‘but Jory would want her to go on with her life’ idiocy, if you lose someone you love, it can take ages before you get over that, since you still love the person. Jory is very dear to Kasmeer.
Thirdly, all these characters are strong in their femininity, which has nothing to do with how fierce of a warrior you are. The idea that women are inherently more pacifist and that therefore pacifism is more feminine is wrong, the fact is that women tend to use direct violence less, because it is frowned upon in our society. In the society of GW, where gender roles are somewhat different, it might as well be that women are just as aggressive as men when angered. (also have you ever seen women fight, it’s vicious). This also means that a woman can be perfectly stereotypically feminine and still be a vicous warrior and a man who does not fullfill your standards of a buff alpha male could be seen as perfectly masculine in guild wars 2.
tl;dr: males don’t need to be alpha male to be interesting, females don’t need to be ultra feminine to be interesting, gender should always be below characteristics in character design and stop killing off gay relationships, kitten .
