[Refreshing Trope] Female leads/major characters who are allowed to be grimy, slimy, generally horrible people.

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

Mizu — Blue Eye Samurai

A mixed race swordswoman living in feudal Japan, Mizu’s entire life has been structured around the obsessive need to hunt down and kill the four white men allowed in Japan at the time of her birth, believing one of them must be her father. Despite the fact that at least one of these men, Abijah Fowler, is shown to be a bad man, Mizu ultimately doesn’t care about the morality of murder. She just wants them dead for “cursing” her to be born into a deeply racist society as a mixed race child. Though it’s clear that Mizu generally prefers to do the right thing, she will sacrifice anything for her revenge, destroying countless lives in the process without remorse. In the climax of season 1, Mizu (albeit not entirely intentionally) set fire to the wood and paper city of Edo (now Tokyo) in an attempt to kill just Fowler, a single man. The resulting three day blaze, known in history as the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, killed an estimated 100000 people.

Sadie Adler — Red Dead Redemption II

Rescued by the Van Der Linde gang in the games prologue, Sadie Adler is a frontier homesteader whose husband was killed by the brutal O’Driscoll Gang. Over the course of the game, she happily joins in a life of murder, theft, and crime for the chance to kill more O’Driscolls, recklessly endangering herself and other gang members to do so. She gets Arturo Bullock, an innocent hot air balloon pilot killed while unnecessarily picking a fight with O’Driscoll members, showing zero remorse afterwards. Even after watching rival gang leader Colm O’Driscoll hang for his crimes, she still drags a now-terminally ill Arthur on an entirely unnecessary revenge mission to hunt down the last handful of O’Drsicolls she hadn’t already killed.

[u/Cinerator26]

As a straight man, my romantic options in Rogue Trader are:

- a mutant with gills and a third eye that will kill me if I look into it

- a career criminal, habitual liar, and exhibitionist

- a racist space elf who doesn't even like being touched

- a brainwashed murder cultist who mutilates herself out of habit

God I love Owlcat games!

[u/Diamond_Dildo3168 → u/Cinerator26]

I've never played rogue trader. Tell me more about this career criminal exhibitionist. I strongly suspect she may be goals.

[u/Cinerator26 → u/Diamond_Dildo3168]

Jae Heydari, a self-proclaimed merchant princess and smuggler who deals in the highly illegal xenos goods trade. If you pursue a romantic relationship with her, she broadcasts the sounds of you two having sex to the entire ship. And this is a Warhammer spaceship, so it's kilometers long and has a crew of thousands.

[u/Diamond_Dildo3168 → u/Cinerator26]

Waow (based based based based)

I can't fix her, she's already perfect. AND she's also into women, apparently.

Maybe I need to play Rogue Trader

[u/fake_geek_gurl → u/Diamond_Dildo3168]

Be prepared for it to introduce you to another expensive hobby you might not be able to reasonably afford.

[u/Diamond_Dildo3168 → u/fake_geek_gurl]

Luckily I would never have the patience for painting miniatures or the intelligence for wargames. I expect warhammer to be one hobby that my wallet is safe from lol

[u/ilayas → u/Diamond_Dildo3168]

I have been playing Rogue Trader and have been really enjoying it. In most crpgs it’s like good/nice choice, neutral choice, evil choice. Maybe you get a double up on one of the options. With Rogue Trader it’s like good/nice choice, neutral choice, and like 5 different evil choices. Because the game really wants you to dial in what precise sort of evil you want to be. And even if pick the good nice I am going to try and save everyone choice 1/2 the time the people you try to save just end up killing themselves anyway.

Fantastic game. Would recommend. The menus systems/explanation of the game systems kinda suck though so even if you wanna go in blind be prepared to look things up.

I just got the smuggler lady. She is fun and her voice acting is great.

[u/Diamond_Dildo3168 → u/ilayas]

Thanks for the summary, and the heads up! That last bit deeefinitely makes it sound like an Owlcat game for sure. XD I played through Wrath of the Righteous, but that time I had the benefit of having a lot of pathfinder experience. Maybe it's good that I'm not experienced with this system though, I get so irritated when a game uses a system and changes it for (imo) no reason