Avashnea Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Why do fan fiction authors seem to love tormenting Quinn so much? 75% of the stories I read have him being horribly tortured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feldraeth Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 (edited) This contains spoilers for the Sith Warrior story (obviously). Most Fanfiction writers are female, so they are more likely to have played a female Warrior their first time around. Betrayal from a spouse is far more intimate and devastating than betrayal from an underling. With an underling, one can execute them, punish them or whatnot without a second thought, but people love their spouses, and its why their betrayal hurts so much more. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the players love Quinn (okay maybe some of them do) but their characters do, and that's the lens through which they see the Warrior's story. So he betrays them, tries to kill them and admits he's been spying on them for the 2 years in which they've known each other. It doesn't help that quite a few of them got married on Voss (aka immediately before the transponder station). Imagine getting close to a person, getting married and then on the honeymoon, (s)he tells you (s)he works for your ex-boss tries to kill you. You would feel pretty betrayed too. As for why they are tormenting him? Love and Hatred are two sides of the same emotion and its much easier to flip one to the other than apathy. Just look at families, especially with siblings. Jim Butcher calls it Familial Dementia when a seemingly normal person goes insane around their family, engaging in petty pointless squabbles whose origins stem back decades and are bizarre to watch from the outside. A good example here is BrightEphemera. She has written about 3 warriors, 2 female, one male. The first (can't remember what it was called) details how it shattered the Warriors spirit, leaving her this broken bitter thing for the rest of her days. The second (No Death, Only Wrath) killed him outright and the story for the fiction is largely that of dealing with his ghost (stupid Voss wedding rituals) The third (Sevasht Warwiggins, Spoilers!) is a medium aware male LS pureblood warrior and his struggles with plotholes enforced genre blindness and Vette. This one has Quinn's betrayal barely affect him, and not just because he saw it coming (from all the way back to post-Balmorra). Edited April 16, 2016 by Feldraeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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