Subject: Don't worry, is very con your crit!
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Posted on: 2015-03-03 16:17:00 UTC

And all can summarized as "Edhelistar cannot keep a consistent characterization for his OCs". But first, some little defenses:

1) To be fair, at that point of the story of the OCT, that specific officer (The Head of Intelligence!), was very overworked; because there was a mass defection and rebellion spearheaded by the Commander of the Army of Kanto, taking many high ranking officers and soldiers from both sides of the war; a single sniper going "ronin" and following her own agenda, was peanuts compared to that. Her reaction was pretty much "someone else will take care of that", and she was right! By the end of the third chapter Corinna became an enemy for all three sides of the war.

2) Corinna never mistreated her Pokémon! That's her only redeemable part in fact, but well, that gives me some Fridge Logic, more on that later. By the canon of the OCT, War Pokémon, like Maya; were subjected to a very brutal and traumatazing "training" that very few survived before asigning them to the soldiers. Maya was already abused before Corinna even met her, and Corinna was trying to actually help her. Then again, Maya is a Psychic-Type, what she probably has seen in Corinna's mind is certainly terrifying.

3) I tried to imply that she doesn't get along with her father, also I tried to imply that she was trying everything to get out of the Army, up to getting court-martialed (and jailed!), but to her changrin her father bailed her out everytime (ie. He beat her up at her own game, although; why her father wants her so bad in the Army anyway?). But still you're right, she was a spoiled brat... her mother spoiled her (this is mostly RP information that I never bothered to include in the main bio). Her mother was implied at some time in the past to being part of the Intelligence Agency of Sinnoh, being a fearsome assassin, supplying the Apricorn Poké Ball to Corinna, arraging the training with the ninja clan of Mahogany Town, and overall using her daughter as a pawn. (This backfired too, when she became a hunter, instead of an assassin.)

And now I will spork myself other inconsisties that I found, aside the ones you mentioned:

1) I implied many times in RPs and once in the bio, that she was to become an Aura Guardian, that would make her for default an empath! And considering she killed many Pokémon, which by all canons are supposed to be sentient or semi-sentient; she's waaay too much sane for the amount to empathic backlashes she sould have received after killing hundreds, if not thousands; of Pokémon during those 10 years. She should have been an insensitive psychopath by this point in time, and would probably have murdered without remorse those poor guys in patrol, instead of just beating them up. Just like she killed three Johtoan Guards a in the non-online next pages of the 3rd Chapter (I think I should upload them later today.)

2) She kills a lot of Pokémon regularly, while keeping the ones she own very spoiled, and claims to be very religious while killing the children of her own god... Hypocrite much?

3) Related to above, why would Mew, or freaking Arceus; choose a known Pokémon serial killer as a Chosen One!? That's just dumb!

4) This one last is a little dubious, but here goes: You're right, even if she got ninja assssination training, those three guards above mentioned were her first human kills ever! There's a huge leap between being trained to kill and actually killing someone. What makes it dubious is that fact that I'm not quite sure if the empathic backlash of a dying sentient or semi-sentient Pokémon, is of the same or less strength than the one generated for a dying human.

5) Also the Lucario disappears in Chapter 3! Great continuity!

And you're correct, she wasn't supposed to be exactly sympathetic, after all, by chapter three she is considered a dangerous outlaw for all the three factions, she isn't making a lot of friends, and is making enemies of the few she already has.Yeah, there's no way that would go wrong, right?

I could probably fix all the inconsistencies with a massive amount of retcons, and write Corinna a Grand Finale for her story, and hopefully redeem her, because despite all of her shortcomings, I'm still quite fond of this character (and her Ageless Morally Ambiguous Sociopathic Heroine alternate version of her from my main continuum, would like to "have some words" with her [that means horribly torture, maim or kill her]).

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