Jayce is just a glory-hog who is willing to let people die so he can stroke his overinflated ego. I bet he and Draven would get along nicely.
Meanwhile Viktor puts his knowledge to good use, including helping that kid in his short story. That was quite... satisfying.
Well played, Riot. Who here hopes Jayce will get put in his place soon enough?
MavenSong4 votesJayce is an ass but he isnt evil. Neither are. Its just 2 sides of an coin.
GreenLore4 votesNow you are overexaggerating. Jayce did not know what Viktor was doing,it was simply a misunderstanding.
And honestly,who can blame him?I mean Viktor,the guy who was known to dislike "human error" had corpses with opened skulls lying around his lab and didn't try to explain the situation to jayce,instead commanding his soldiers to kill jayce.
They simply both made mistakes in that story-part.
darkdill1 votesIt's harder for me to like Jayce, though.
The Anagram King2 votesThe best thing Jayce ever did was invent a hammer-gun to smash and blow stuff up.
He was never "the" hero.
That said, his flurry of lies in the new lore only seem this bad because Vik's lore implies Viktor spends every waking moment of his life helping others. And I think we accidentally did that (we, being the Viktor fanbase - who complained when we saw Jayce's lore. :P)
333lom2 votesAh there you are! I couldn't find you. The new lore has 0 epiphany and transformation moments. And all I can do is just... sit and... everyone's celebrating and.. well.
The Anagram King3 votesThat is EXACTLY how I feel. There's little substance in it. Blatant fanservice. And it worked. And I wanna grieve in public, but, well - it's 2fold:
1: Everyone likes that VIk's a 'good guy'. They're (the majority are) sated. 2: It doesn't negatively impact Viktor the character. It just pulls intrigue from his backstory.
No transformation of ideals. No huge depression and crises of life scene. Vik turning into a robot is almost the next logical step; as though he only needed a minor excuse to build up the enthusiasm to do it. Blitz is a footnote. Pididly was thrown in as a name drop, lol. No mention of vengeance, or proof of Viktor's resolve. No rebirth as the Creator; or the Herald.
Just Viktor. Doing Viktor. And it's fatiguing. I don't appreciate it.
The short story I'll defend to the death, however. :P It was quite good. And we even have the question of ethics in taking away the child's fear. A more pessimistic writer might've even made the child suffer an injury, or mortal wound... or ABDUCTION(!!!) as a result of the lack of a fear complex. There's stuff in the short story. Implications. Interactions.
But the main lore is focused on making Viktor nice. Instead of ambiguous and/or interesting.
That's how I feel, anyways.
333lom1 votesI've written my basic points here. There's much more than this though, this is just the skeleton.
I have to note that, I would like for Viktor to end up as a good guy in the end. And if I understood correctly, you'd like to see him end up as a villain, a true machine. What we do agree on, is that we want a character on a crossroads. Someone who went through such a trauma that it changed his perception of the world. And the overall story should practically never reach the end, so neither of us would theoretically see our end! Then we are free to agree on everything regarding the story!
The new Viktor's bio sounds like it was rewritten, or had many things edited in. Pididly, for example. It doesn't feel like an organic whole. And frankly, it bluntly tells us "well guys, Viktor's a saint. See, he saved 10000000 people." But the story doesn't show us anything. It doesn't show us his emotional reactions to his deeds, instead, it paints Viktor as a boring, almost savant-type who doesn't care about his surroundings. He only cares how "human errors are everywhere. Ugh". What? And by giving him this mindset even before a tragedy and depression, it erases any significance his transformation had. Now it feels like he was a bored weirdo, and is still a bored weirdo, who at one point said "oh I had a depression for a week" and put on a purple coat with sparkles. And now he wears it as he wears his "transformed body and mind". Bleh.
The short story seems like it could belong on a line slightly after the crossroads, but tilting towards the evil side. Viktor directly tampers with a child's brain. That's a no-no. And he offers the kid a glass of milk, too bad he didn't smile and show a thousand pointly teeth with that as well, ha! So I guess i know why you like the short story :P I would have wished for something still on **exactly **that damn crossroads.
To conclude, the new lore is - all over the place. Fails to understand Viktor as a character and his psychology. Tells, but doesn't show anything. Lacks emotional impact and above all, logic. Focuses on "emotions are human weakness" and pushes this to an uncanny valley of evil "cure". As if. As if our own damn world isn't moving in this direction. And prosthetics and deep brain implants certainly aren't viewed as evil in the real world. So I don't understand the choice here. It's like the writers weren't even acquainted with this technology.
But hey! Viktor got called a saint! Everyone's happy so let's praise the writers. Nobody cares about legitimate analysis of a character.
midnight oil241 votesThey're morally gray. Though I get the feeling I'd get along well with Viktor. We're both irritable yet will help people any way we know how. Though I'm not viktor levels of smarts.
Ebonmaw Dragon1 votes"We"
... I always knew the truth
Tesla Effect1 votesAlmost like he was inspired by Nikola Tesla...man I love Viktor now so much.