Talk:The Hero/@comment-7706473-20140621115348/@comment-7706473-20140712100752

Without going into too much detail, I'm pretty good at recognizing the G-man, heh. But that picture is very GoT-ish, isn't it?

My apologies for missing this comment, work is what it is and all that. But I'd be glad to elaborate, I love reading and replying to work almost as much as writing it - for me, the most eye-rolling bits were indeed the mountain tribe bits (which were stretching it) and near the end, when lovable hero Ganon starts monologuing about his unfortunate but neccessary overthrow of the princess. He comes off seeming less competent hero, and more Cromwellian rebel attempting to justify his just-as-bad coup, and comes off (to me) as a little hammy, though I also kind of enjoyed that aspect of the story, if that makes sense?

I also have a rather strange view of morality, so at times I ended up seeing even heroic Ganon as being self-centred and focused on short-term idealism over the realities of what is a dysfunctional feudal society by the view of the story. It wasn't poorly written at all - his words were very believable! - but the reason they fell short for me is I've known a lot of people who talk very vocally about their issue par course, and then proceed to talk some more. Their words are betrayed by their actions, or their inactions perhaps. I will say I think I actually liked this more then XoRax, to be honest - it was more interesting to me, and the above isn't a complaint or a recommendation on stuff you should change - but rather the best kind of mulled thought after a story a reader's enjoyed. Hope this feedback helps!