Discussion Do most MCs have ADD?

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  1. Sangnz

    Sangnz Well-Known Member

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    Seriously thinking about most MCs in wuxia/xanxia all have a very serious case of ooh shiny. It doesn't matter what is going in in their lives, their clan is on the verge of destruction, their lover has been kidnapped, if something mildly interesting is going on in their general vicinity they will drop everything to go partake.

    It honestly reminds me of CRPGs where your at a crucial part of the main story the whole fate of the world hangs in the balance and you're traipsing around delivering parcels and farming herbs.

    Seriously how many times has something dire been going on in any number of stories but everything comes to a screeching halt because there is an auction event in a few days and suddenly that dire event will happily delay itself for a few more days to accommodate our MCs total inability to stay on track.
     
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    Xravia 『Chaos Wizard Of Procrastination 』

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    I think most MCs were dropped on their head at an early age...
     
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    justmehere Well-Known Member

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    ADD is just a made up definition by "professionals"

     
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    laclongquan Well-Known Member

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    You can blame MMORPG for this kind of behaviour~ And Japanese enjoy MMORPG even earlier than most, thanks to their local dev studio, local market strength, and local infrastructure...
     
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    bartsimpsons Well-Known Member

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    I stopped reading those generic, repetitive, trash-like works few month ago. No more retarded MC for me.
     
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    12300 [How many sheep can Snorlax count?]

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    Its for plot. Every main character always gets some sort of power increase before the big event.
     
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    Otouto-kun Well-Known Member

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    Its just the usual tropes
     
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    Aizael Well-Known Member

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    Im an MC and i can assure you i dont have add
     
  9. replay

    replay ★Milk and Honey smelling Merchant★

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    uhhhh. . . i became the thieves guild head. .
    the wibter hild college head. . .
    the the dark brotherhoods listener. . .
    and all the stuffs before i kill Alduin. . .

    ps: well . . . . ask the authors for that . .
    but well the main event must have been a no time limit one. . . remember those scenes the villains do not set any time limit. . .
     
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    lnv ✪ Well-Known Hypocrite

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    Not sure what you mean, sounds normal to me... sometimes you focus on one thing but something pops up and you just have to grab it regardless what you were doing!

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  11. CountryMage

    CountryMage [XSanguine8] not my blood...

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    ADHD, they are a lot more motivated when it's for the side quest stuff.
    "Oh, my lover will die in a few days, unless I find a way to break her curse...well at least I have a few days, but there are rumors of a powerful artifact about a days travel from here, I should probably hurry over."
     
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    lygarx Lazy Translator

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    Depends if the author has it or not. Generally these novels start out as escapes by the author into another world. These writings are a glimpse into their very soul.
     
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    kenar ヽ(`・ω・´)ゝ

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    like when playing skyrim?
     
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    juniorjawz Well-Known Member

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    The MC has a case of Skyrim's protagonist
     
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    Relevant?
     
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    Sangnz Well-Known Member

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    Good ol Skyrin one of the best games for saying fuck saving the world I'm going to roll cheese down a mountain instead.
     
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    forecast [Batoto Veteran] [sakurahana veteran]

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    that about sums up plot armor and its much needed for them because after solving the problem a bigger one is coming right away, when that happens they barely survive and they start powering up to defeat new threat.

    rinse and repeat.
     
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    could someone give me an example of when this happen (like the novel or something) I know of people getting side tracked but normally when shit gets down hard they are on the point. (just give the name of the novel and what was happening and what they were distracted with)
     
  19. Drake888

    Drake888 That one guy. You know, the one over there.

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    I think it reflects the author's ability to put himself in his own world instead of just making a bunch of Mary Sue nonsense. It's the reason I stopped reading ATG actually. I was really enjoying the story, lots of tension and emotional connections, then the MC just runs off to some tournament in a foreign land because there might be something valuable there. He has two lovers in danger (plus a third he doesn't know is in danger) and he had just found out that he has to avenge his long lost family. And the author just picks this moment to be like "yup, my super driven MC would totally pick this moment to go fight some people he's never met for some magic items". Really? The MC's whole motivation for badassery until that point had been helping his family and love interest stuff. Then he just ignored it when the stakes were higher than ever just because he couldn't see a quick way to solve the problem.
     
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    Geor Well-Known Member

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    I call it raven syndrome ... more applicable to these MCs then ADD.... and it does get old fast
     
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