Except that's just the thing!!!
Our Side sees the finish line and are happy that we'll be done soon, then y'all say "That's not enough! We should do all the laps over again! Because then it will feel more satisfying!"
I don't agree! And the simple thing is, pushing completion out further is actively KILLING MY INVESTMENT in this charm CT. Do you get that? I'm getting to the point where I don't even care.
I'm TIRED of putting other things aside for this thing and don't want to double the amount of time spent on this charm. Is that so hard to understand?
Look man, I understand where you're coming from, and why you're fired up in this post. I'm not gonna say that your viewpoint is wrong or anything, because it comes from your own emotions and those are always valid.
That being said, please understand my perspective as well. I try to keep it from leaking into my words, but to me, DD'ing on this charm is important for my investment in this quest just like you. I just tried to hold that back because I thought that if I kept things from descending to emotion vs emotion arguments, things would stay that way, but clearly I'm just naive.
Very well then. Here it is.
If Kong Zhi can spend the extra effort to go all out on some wagon timbers and Vestige teeth, but can't be assed to put the extra effort for the crowning jewel of a literal civilization and something his father gave to him, knowing that he would be increasing the chance that he would die and leave the rest of the Kong family behind in the process, than Zhi is not the character that I thought he was.
I thought Zhi was the sort of guy, unlike in a lot of other stories which involve a noble family which classically tend to have a rebellion arc, that actually cared about his family, to the sort of extent that would make otherwise crazy or even irrational decisions possible, just for their sake. I loved when Zhi talked about his memories of his father teaching him clothworking, and when he spoke with pride about his father who was the greatest artisan he knew.
That's why, way back in the Duel (we fought on the same side, remember?), I voted to take the offer. I thought that the fact that this would benefit the Clan was something that Zhi would care about to the point that he'd make that decision. Ofc that's not the actual motivation we chose for Zhi, but that was my mental state back then. And I still defended that decision, even after onlookers came in and posted, calling Zhi a traitor, a horrible person, and all sorts of other things after the fact. Do you remember?
So please believe me when I say, while I understand you're fired up about this, I'm just as fired up as well. This is something that I see as central to Zhi.
When I said to you that I would stay up the night if I had to, I wasn't lying.
This isn't an argument that will convince you, probably, because emotional arguments never do, but hopefully I managed to convey some of my feelings across.
If this came off as insulting at any point, I genuinely apologize. Emotional arguments tend to do that by accident a whole lot, which is why I try to sparingly use them.
