Quote Originally Posted by Yana View Post
The part of the story that grips me the most, and probably always will I imagine, is O-Chul's childhood origin.

It would have been a massive cliche to take the easy way out and write him as an earnest do-gooder from the onset. Most writers I wager would have had little issue with showing a child version of O-Chul being just as righteous, self-assured, and kind towards others as he is both in the current story and in main comic.
Really? I felt the exact opposite. O-Chul's backstory is one of the few parts of the story that didn't work for me because it felt so cliched.

Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
I feel bad for saying it, but did anyone else get a bit of a Mary Sue vibe from O-Chul in this story?

(I mean Mary Sue the concept, not Mary_Sue the forumite, for the avoidance of doubt).
Not quite Mary Sue, but I can't help but feel that the writing for O-Chul and Miko has been tampered slightly by the readers' caricatured perceptions and memes of the characters. Similar to how Yoda spoke more with his tic in the prequels.