Shining is going Punisher on Sombra's toadies, after seeing what they were doing I can't really blame him though. This story enjoys displaying the brutality of fighting like few do, especially MLP fics. I can kind of see Shining struggling with an idea I found best communicated by Terry Pratchett, to shorten a couple of great lines down to the point, "...So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word." With the idea being punctuated with the story's most heroic character killing the villain with no dramatic florishes or one-liners, just a short sharp thrust immediately followed by moving on to check on the people he saved. Shining isn't quite there, being focused on the past and who he couldn't save, rather than who he now can.
11323986 "Shining goes full Punisher..." was actually the disclaimer I was going to put at the beginning of the chapter but I figured if someone's still on board at this point, they're fine with that.
Been a balancing act trying to keep him in the Dexter gray zone of permissible violence and tragic antihero.
11324515 I think you are keeping to that line, Shining is violent, but not calculating about it. Finding his brother being tortured would lead to just about anyone beating the torturers to death with whatever is at hand, or telekinesis.
I wood taken some of the riot gear
Shining is going Punisher on Sombra's toadies, after seeing what they were doing I can't really blame him though. This story enjoys displaying the brutality of fighting like few do, especially MLP fics. I can kind of see Shining struggling with an idea I found best communicated by Terry Pratchett, to shorten a couple of great lines down to the point, "...So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word." With the idea being punctuated with the story's most heroic character killing the villain with no dramatic florishes or one-liners, just a short sharp thrust immediately followed by moving on to check on the people he saved.
Shining isn't quite there, being focused on the past and who he couldn't save, rather than who he now can.
11323986
"Shining goes full Punisher..." was actually the disclaimer I was going to put at the beginning of the chapter but I figured if someone's still on board at this point, they're fine with that.
Been a balancing act trying to keep him in the Dexter gray zone of permissible violence and tragic antihero.
11324515
I think you are keeping to that line, Shining is violent, but not calculating about it. Finding his brother being tortured would lead to just about anyone beating the torturers to death with whatever is at hand, or telekinesis.