Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-37028137-20200608180603

Greetings Lance,

If I may answer that in two parts.

1 As I told Dagoth, KC is very loose and contrarian with his own lore. He will make something canon one day and next week it could be retconed into never existing. Actually a great example for that is the way in which Druella has been altered. In Fallen Brides she is frankly a twisted psychopath (Or near as a Mamono can get) but if you read KC's Q&A he said that her Rape heavy personality was just 'teasing' or some such thing and not as bad as it appears. He also retconed the Devil Bugs to be less rapey (is that a word?) In a Q&A, and gave the Sabbath a medical unit to point the gaze away from the Loli Factor.

So on one hand yes I think KC does retcon and revise so much of his conent because he doesn't have a solid plan and is therefore 'bad at world building'.

2 But on the other hand KC made the world to be a base or starting point for other writers or artists to create their own little world. So the lore has to be vague and open ended in order to accomidate all those stories and ideas.

So it's really annoying that he doesn't keep consistency with his own mythology, but at the same time it's a necessary and good thing. And before you ask yes it's hypocritical of me to point that disparity out while using it to build my own stuff, but eh what's one to do?

3 Well Harems aren't my cup of tea, but their not necessarily bad. The trouble is the characters and the dynamic between them has to feel real and be believable. I don't have a Harem in my story because I was afraid I'd subconciously (or otherwise) pick a favorite and write more for them and neglect the other. Plus it felt a little sleezy, even with Mamono society being the way it is.

That being said if you are confident you can write very good characters by themselves and then bring them together naturally it could work. It all depends on how you handle the situation.

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.