CatBlueCamp wrote:I find your preference refreshing, actually. I don't know of many Sanjay fans and (being a D&D fan) I love it when players find ways to flesh out characters and make them memorable. The way that most people depict Sanjay is as being without a will of his own or overly subservient. Your depiction humanizes him and gives him character. While he's not my cup of tea, it's changed the way that I will see his character from now on.
I had not actually heard that, before. Mostly I just hear that he's 'boring'. But I get it. Sanjay is not flashy in looks or personality; he's quite unassuming, and he enters the scene almost like an attaché rather than as his own man. Many people may have watched his and Amir's intro scene and immediately written him off as not worth paying attention to, and it's just a game, so there's no reason why they shouldn't, honestly. But I was fascinated. What HAPPENED between those two, that orphaned Sanjay came into contact with the prince and chose to dedicate his life to Amir? I wanted to know, so I paid a lot of attention to him.
Then I saw his purple heart event, and if I ever had any thought that he was subservient and without a will of his own (which I never did, but if I HAD), that event would have cleared it out immediately. Sanjay has a streak of helicopter mom in him! He's all sweet and accomodating when things are going as they should...if Amir and the MC are doing well...but the minute anything troubling comes up...boom. Out comes the scolding finger and furrowed brow of doom that showed me right away that Sanjay probably does more bossing than Amir, who never seems to demand anything of Sanjay at all but rather simply accepts him as a close and valued companion.
Well, everything about Sanjay just bent me right toward him, it seems. I won't dispute it with those who feel he's not interesting, because that's personal taste. All I can say for sure is that he was always interesting to
me.
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And we're not very far off-topic here but to bring it more precisely back on...and to stop people from offering to pay me to stop talking about Sanjay...talking of this has made me see that even though he was a special case for me, he
does actually fit a few more of my typical drawing points than I realized, in addition to his long hair. Those points would be:
~gentle or soft nature...not weak or wishy-washy, and not insecure, but placid, peaceful, or simply very mature in mannerisms. Not overly moody or prone to aggression. This is probably a big draw for me because this is somebody that makes me want to take care of them and do things for them.
~an introvert
~high contrast complexion (I love both dark skin with light hair and dark hair with light skin when it comes to looks.)
It's probably safe to say that I pretty much always fall hardest for candidates with the first two points, there. Even though I mean to play through 2 more files in addition to the 2 I have already done in Trio (Ludus and Yuzuki) I don't feel like anyone will manage to eclipse my fondness for Yuzuki. But it won't stop me from trying...you never know what interesting line will suddenly sweep your mind off to fun imaginings.
JUST CAUGHT MYSELF IN TIME EDIT: Ehppy...I tried to play ANB again and pursue Neil to experience something different...but I couldn't go through with it once we got to the point where I would normally have unlocked Amir and Sanjay if I'd been playing the usual way. I'd rather play my older file with nothing left to do on it where Sanjay is in my house and I can talk to him at any time
And it's fun that you mention the high-contrast issue just as I'm writing it myself, too
Very rarely do I change my mind later...I think the only times was AWL (went after Celia first but after talking to Muffy, especially in AnWL, I changed my mind to go after Muffy) and the times I was on the fence in ANB for Soseki vs Sanjay (that changed very quickly to Sanjay when I unlocked him) and on the fence for Raeger and Nadi in SoS (but I had a feeling I'd end up preferring Nadi since Raeger is so BORING!).
