robkelk Wrote:On a meta level, it seems that every story that gets Noah Scott added to it becomes either a pissing match or a bloodbath... so I'm pushing that character off to the sidelines and letting more-likable characters represent StellviaCorp from now on. Unless you're named A.C. Peters, expect your characters to get replies from Yayoi or Jake or Takami when they call Stellvia for help, favours, or just to chat. I'm sick and tired of all the "high drama" on the SMOF-ML between Noah and Mal, or Noah and Ben, or Noah and pretty much anyone else. It isn't helping drive stories any more, and it isn't fun to write.
I'm going to suggest that if you want Noah to fade into the background, the best way to do it isn't to have the character self-destruct. That only brings him that much closer to the foreground - look at this shambling wreck of a man, who once flew so high yadda yadda. So, how do we do this? Well, instead of turning him into Charles Foster Kane just give him his happy ending; he fades into the background as CEO to spend more time with his family, Yayoi takes over as operating VP or however you want to handle it, roll credits.
The company can still have problems, though they might not be as deeply personal if Noah isn't self-destructing. I've been considering walking back the stronger parts of the Soviet/Stellvian rift; it's an inevitability that friendship between a revolutionary socialist nation and a corporate state isn't a long-term thing, but to break it over the Catalog strikes me in retrospect as the height of hypocrisy.
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