[ SECRET POST #2977 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2977 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Paul Darrow]


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[Dragon Age: Inquisition]


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(Bee and Puppycat)


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[Joan Watson, Elementary]


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(Marvel's Agents of Shield)


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[One Piece]


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[Noah Emmerich, The Americans]


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[Teen Wolf]


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15. [ WARNING for rape ]



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16. [ WARNING for dubcon? ]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #425.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[herpymcderp]

The problem with Lara in that game, for me at least, wasn't that she was struggling and crying and breaking down. It wasn't that she was a female character doing it. It wasn't any of those things. It was strictly to do with how believable it all was.

Her breaking down and crying is a perfectly reasonable reaction to her situation, and one that I kind of wish all video game protagonists would have to more of a degree.

I'd like to contrast it to Jason Brody's reaction (Far Cry 3) though, and you'll see why I find Lara's lacking and kind of demeaning. See, J. Bro also flipped his shit when he got dropped into a bad situation full of people trying to kill him and was forced to kill someone for the first time. He sees his older brother shot through the neck in front of, Lara sees her camera guy gutted and wakes up in a pit of bodies. In either case, a little breakdown is warranted, definitely.

The difference between Lara and Jason Brody, is that for Lara...her reaction is rote as hell. She cries for a bit, and that's it. In the next sequence she's off killing half a dozen people by strangling them or stabbing them in the neck with no emotion whatsoever. In fact, she just seems to get better as time goes on, with very little reference to any of her own emotions.

In Jason's case we continually see through cutscenes the psychological backlash and the change in character occurring over the course of his time trapped on the islands, and it's a progressive loss of sanity and rational thinking that serves the story well. He doesn't just become an awesome badass with no repercussions; he gets forcibly dragged into the drug-fuelled nightmare of the people holding him there, and even starts to develop Stockholm syndrome.

tl;dr There's also none of the disturbing "rape makes women stronger" sentiment that surrounds the development of Lara's game. That's why reactions to her character arc are less than positive. It's not that she cried in the first place, it's how the game treats her afterward.

[(Anonymous)]

Real people react to those kinds of things in different way. Not everyone goes insane from going through traumatic events. It sounds like you're saying there's only one right way to be traumatized, which is almost offensive.

[herpymcderp]

Being not traumatized is not a way to be traumatized, unfortunately. It is, however, a good way to be lazy at writing.

[(Anonymous)]

So did you just completely ignore the way she reacted to the first man she killed, or... ?

[herpymcderp]

You didn't even read my comment. Okay. Well, whatever.