there's a significant readership which still sees this as just angsty romance and not, y'know, abuse.
Yeah. It's why I basically skip around that ship. But it also leaves the ships I'm willing to read sadly lacking in fic because apparently healthy (if rocky) relationships are like unicorns or something.
Unfortunately, most plots tend to focus on the business relationship with the IPC, or research side with the Guild/Genius Society. So that doesn't come up often, I guess.
I mean there's also the fact that a lot of writers have no idea how to show a character's philosophy. I've noticed that most writers only ever make characters say what they feel rather than delve deeper into their internal thoughts, despite the fact that the written media (aka novels/novella) is the perfect medium to allow readers to dive into the internal thoughts of characters.
I don't know if this is the result of gamer fandoms or what, but it's like...internal thought process descriptions are rare AF for some reason.
But as for dealing with the business side of things...it's actually a great set up to get Ratio's perspective. Business decisions are profit driven. An academic's decisions are driven by things that have nothing to do with profit. Having Ratio negotiate the terms of projects and try to force his priorities into the grants/scholarships/project funding meetings would provide an opportunity to show what Ratio finds more important. Plus, it would give an excuse for Ratio to have to work with Aventurine, who has far more business experience and can...I don't know, edit his grant proposal with flirty comments like "I love your dedication to the pursuit of enlightenment, Professor, but there's no way you'll convince business sharks with your highfalutin arguments about the importance of education if you don't link it back to their wallets somehow." (Obviously this is an off-the-cuff example and not very well thought out. I'm not thinking about these characters very hard, but what I've seen have not impressed me that the writers thought very hard about the characters either.)
Another rec I'll throw out here is this one: 以毒攻毒
The pacing is a little off, but yeah, fics like this are less annoying. But also agree that the philosophizing got a bit navel-gaze-y and I'm still a bit annoyed at the weird robotic-ness of Dr. Ratio's language quirks. Like...gah, can he just talk like a normal person? Like why would he waste time saying he's "硕士研究生、博士导师" when he can just say "硕博研导" and it would literally mean the same thing? It's like saying "I'm the principle investigator leading this project" when most PIs would just be like "I'm the PI." (I've yet to see fanfic that has Dr. Ratio talk like a normal person. Which is weird because he speaks like a normal person in the game, albeit even "normal" dialogue in game is a weird mix of formal and colloquial grammar. But that's everyone. There's nothing about Dr. Ratio's speech pattern to suggest that he speaks more formally than everyone else.)
the academic side of Ratio's character is potentially rife for writing that would drive you up a wall. Which is why I didn't really mention it much in my HSR posts.
I will endeavor not to pick on that aspect of the writing...
the canon writing is also guilty of having writers who obviously never got an actual bachelor's degree from an university doing the writing. Because the 8 doctoral degrees thing is so unnecessary.
OMFG YES! I didn't really want to get into it, since I do like the general vibes of Dr. Ratio, but the 8 doctoral degrees was pissing me off. Like, WTF, no, he does not need 8 doctoral degrees! It's basically just comics schlock (reminds me of Dr. Banner's 7 PhDs). God I wish people would stop doing that! I swear every time miHoyo writes more about a character I like they ruin him/her! It's infuriating! At this point I almost don't want to get into the canon any further because Dr. Ratio is perfect as he is in his PV and anything more would ruin his character for me.
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Yeah. It's why I basically skip around that ship. But it also leaves the ships I'm willing to read sadly lacking in fic because apparently healthy (if rocky) relationships are like unicorns or something.
I mean there's also the fact that a lot of writers have no idea how to show a character's philosophy. I've noticed that most writers only ever make characters say what they feel rather than delve deeper into their internal thoughts, despite the fact that the written media (aka novels/novella) is the perfect medium to allow readers to dive into the internal thoughts of characters.
I don't know if this is the result of gamer fandoms or what, but it's like...internal thought process descriptions are rare AF for some reason.
But as for dealing with the business side of things...it's actually a great set up to get Ratio's perspective. Business decisions are profit driven. An academic's decisions are driven by things that have nothing to do with profit. Having Ratio negotiate the terms of projects and try to force his priorities into the grants/scholarships/project funding meetings would provide an opportunity to show what Ratio finds more important. Plus, it would give an excuse for Ratio to have to work with Aventurine, who has far more business experience and can...I don't know, edit his grant proposal with flirty comments like "I love your dedication to the pursuit of enlightenment, Professor, but there's no way you'll convince business sharks with your highfalutin arguments about the importance of education if you don't link it back to their wallets somehow." (Obviously this is an off-the-cuff example and not very well thought out. I'm not thinking about these characters very hard, but what I've seen have not impressed me that the writers thought very hard about the characters either.)
The pacing is a little off, but yeah, fics like this are less annoying. But also agree that the philosophizing got a bit navel-gaze-y and I'm still a bit annoyed at the weird robotic-ness of Dr. Ratio's language quirks. Like...gah, can he just talk like a normal person? Like why would he waste time saying he's "硕士研究生、博士导师" when he can just say "硕博研导" and it would literally mean the same thing? It's like saying "I'm the principle investigator leading this project" when most PIs would just be like "I'm the PI." (I've yet to see fanfic that has Dr. Ratio talk like a normal person. Which is weird because he speaks like a normal person in the game, albeit even "normal" dialogue in game is a weird mix of formal and colloquial grammar. But that's everyone. There's nothing about Dr. Ratio's speech pattern to suggest that he speaks more formally than everyone else.)
I will endeavor not to pick on that aspect of the writing...
OMFG YES! I didn't really want to get into it, since I do like the general vibes of Dr. Ratio, but the 8 doctoral degrees was pissing me off. Like, WTF, no, he does not need 8 doctoral degrees! It's basically just comics schlock (reminds me of Dr. Banner's 7 PhDs). God I wish people would stop doing that! I swear every time miHoyo writes more about a character I like they ruin him/her! It's infuriating! At this point I almost don't want to get into the canon any further because Dr. Ratio is perfect as he is in his PV and anything more would ruin his character for me.