Lymle Lemuri wrote...
Miranda was lucky she even got a father. I thought her blown out of proportion anti daddy complex didn't do her justice. Miranda could have been more likeable if she was more understanding and relatable. I wish she was humble in the fact that there are less fortunate people out there.
Talking to her and romancing her, I saw this shell of a person that was still in the mindset of a 15 year old. She still had father problems well in the past. She had 18+ years to get over it. Its not like he molested her. Its not like he beat her to a bloody pulp. He wanted to make her perfect. yes for all the wrong reasons, but I don't see the problem in trying to perfect something. She didn't want it so thus she ran away.
I believe she blames her father far too much. Like Shepard can say, its not her biotics that make her a person its who she is. I think her perception on how she handled growing up has made her an egotist.
Plus we only have her word on the situation.
We are never told which methods her father used to make her perfect. I have explored a more drastic scenario in the first chapters of my fanfic "
Promethean Legacy (still unfinished, grr.). Instead of claiming Miranda is overreacting, try to image a scenario where she wasn't. Consider that her father is the kind of man who hires mercenaries to kidnap his own (grown-up) daughter instead of making contact with her and her new family. Also note that this problem never affects Miranda's competence as an operative, nor does it prevent her from making an emotional connection with Shepard. Miranda considers her childhood so bad that she wants to save her sister from its like, but she's not angsty about it, she does something about it. Emotionally, this problem is in the past except when her father makes it appear in the present. If anything, it is we who make too much of it, not she.
Her true problem is only accidentally connected to her father: because she knows she was engineered to have improved traits, she feels that none of her accomplishments are truly her own. This is exacerbated by an emotionally distant father who never made any effort to show her it is not so, but at the core it is a problem inherent in the way she was made. She's a new kind of human being, the first of her kind. It seems plausible to me that she needs to come to terms with this, and plausible as well that her existence as a covert operative isn't exactly conducive to doing so.
I think people make too much of the role of her father because they want to make this personal. They want someone to blame. But it is not. It is not a "daddy issue". It is an existential problem Miranda has difficulties to deal with because she's the first human to have it. Her father just makes that task harder.
So no, I do not want Miranda to deal with her father. I want her to come to terms with her origins and see that the fact she's been engineered to have improved traits does not devalue her accomplishments. I want her to see that she need not feel as anyone's tool. Not TIM's, not her father's......and not Shepard's.
BTW:
Citing that "some people have had it worse" is a time-proven way to trivialize someone's problems. As for humility, I hate it if people carry it around as the sign of the morally superior. Easy, after all, to be humble if you don't have the power to affect anything, no? Most of the time it's an excuse presented as a virtue. As for Miranda, note that she exactly does *not* take pride in her gifts while acknowledging that she has them. And lastly, a "likeable and understanding" Miranda is the last I would want. She's good as she is, somewhat detached and aloof. It's what make her interesting. Turning her into the embodiment of social conscience would totally ruin her character.
Modifié par Ieldra2, 18 avril 2011 - 08:28 .
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Rob TIM blind and use her own network of contacts would work... :happy:
Thoughts?
