@Jam: that's actually kind of why I'm trying to do this. I want to see what a non-bullshit rapey-gross Lancelot is like. Scrub away some of those nasty memories.
If I'm exacerbating things, though, I'd like to know about it.
In all honesty, I just don't understand how you can keep making references to that in a serious tone as something that affected Cloud.
I mean by all means if you want to, Cloud is your character, go ahead. I just don't personally want to write off of it because Death didn't respect the source work nor the subjects that it dealt with.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850No, that's fair.
I'm not really sure what to do, to be honest. I mean we've already officially retconned everything he did with Zack because that was pretty awful (and equally rapey!), but that was because I've spent so much time before I wised up making references to it in my writing that it's too late to go back and suddenly start pretending it never happened.
The same goes for all the Fate stuff I did. I brought up Lancelot's involvement at a point where I was good enough to be a competent writer but not good enough to know when to cut ties, and now it's a part of the "lore" or Cloud's arc or whatever, so I'm fucked. I'd love to ignore it but it's too late for that, so I figure the least we can do is perhaps come up with an officially decided upon retcon like we did for the Zack shit. Either that or suddenly, inexplicably drop everything to do with it. Which, to be fair, sounds very appealing, but then I'm suddenly stuck with a shitload of loose ends. Even the scars on his face that I keep referencing were the result of that stupid-ass Nasuverse vampire shit.
So, I dunno. Bcom, any thoughts?

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