You guys complaining about Anevay are missing a huge point-- it's not
canonical that that's the nature of the Champion, it's
canical.
But yeah. Yeah. I was curious how WoW's quest progression treats your character since you are the 'main character' in an MMO where most of the fights are forty-man raids. It seemed odd to me that your character would be the singular savior of everything and that the thirty-nine other people in the raid would just go unacknowledged. I know that, as a video game, it's a power fantasy, but an MMO written to
only acknowledge your avatar just seems like that would be a... really bizarre and terrible writing choice.
Good to know that it's Lily's shitty interpretation.
Regarding novelizations, I think it needs to be said that not only do official novelizations treat this a certain way, but I've read fan novelizations of games where they really do lean in to the struggle and build up the fights. Nobody writes, say, a Final Fantasy VII novelization and says "The Air Buster rose from beneath the catwalk and smashed down, cutting Cloud off from Barret and Tifa. Fortunately, everybody had their Limit Breaks at the ready, so after a flurry of punches, flashing sword strikes, and a hail of bullet, it collapsed in a lifeless heap of scrap metal. Heidegger pouted."
You know why? Because a fanfiction writer with even a modicum of awareness knows that
that's not cool. And they want to write something
cool. Having them just win without even doing some cool backflips and then slicing it in half just feels worthless.
Of course, this isn't really pertinent to Lily, since she'll never actually write the action scenes. They just exist to make her characters informed badasses. She can say whatever she wants happened in the backstory and not actually have to do the work of writing it.
Kind of funny that she bitches about other people doing the 'easy thing' by just focusing on worldbuilding when she can't be assed to actually write these scenes and just summarizes and makes fake TV Tropes pages for them. Almost like she... doesn't want to do the hard work and just wants to do the stuff that she finds fun? Huh.
I don't think she actually answered the question but her advice seems to be "Introduce a fight and then just have somebody eventually realize they need to apologize. The wronged party shouldn't actually do anything to fix this."
Hell, this is exactly how the 'tension' in Lily and G's relationship goes, too-- somebody wrongs the other party and pouts about it, and the person
who was wronged has to go over and say sorry without the other party ever bothering to do anything to make it right.