boostinstargold:

failedyoursavingthrow:

fleshwerks:

let your character fuck up. please. let them fuck up on a scale so massive that this particular thing cannot be salvaged. let their fuck up have permanent consequences. and stoooooooooooooooop having them being the smartest person in the room who always has a sharp comeback to put their enemies down, and who always handles their enemies with grace or at least an air of superiority that s justified because they’re so cool and smart and clever™

let them bleed for their mistakes, let them MAKE those mistakes, and let that bleeding be ugly and disgraceful. let them suffer for their own mistakes, and let them suffer in knowing that they cannot fix. and let other people hate them for the shit they’ve done, and for once let the haters not be ‘petty bad people’.

Let the haters be right.

PREACH.

Honestly a good example of this kind of thing is Luke fon Fabre from Tales of the Abyss. He fucks up BIG time and spends the rest of the game paying for his mistake. All of his friends lose faith in him and he needs to earn it all back, and what it does is make him grow from the person he was and it’s one of the best character developments I’ve ever seen.