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He's only there for one plotline, and his job is to hit on the dude hero "ironically" but obviously be serious about it.
The stupid joke in this story - because I only ever devise fictional narratives based on stupid jokes - is that the protagonist dude really, honestly, seriously hates the rest of his party of adventurers and really, honestly, seriously does not want to be the one to save the world. He's not being tsundere and he's not being a reluctant hero, this is how he actually feels. A new potential romantic route opens for him in every storyline, and that just makes him really mad, he never asked to be the protagonist.
(The party's obligatory female cleric successfully petitioned her goddess to cast him as the protagonist because he ticked her off. He tries to arrange for the main villain to show up and kill her with a sword while she's praying in the obligatory water temple.)
Anyway, I came to the conclusion, while thinking about this, that people would totally hack the game to keep the hot guy in the party if I ever actually made it. So I decided that I would let there be a laborious way to bring him along that requires backtracking through a boring area for a long time and leaving a more-useful character behind.
In every plotline the characters get a new special technique, which they use automatically in certain circumstances. His is called "Excalliburton," and when he uses it he throws a bunch of your money up in the air, doing damage to the enemy, to your own party, and to any neutral or friendly NPCs nearby on the screen.
So I'm both a jerk and a person who makes dated puns. That is the takeaway of the story I just told.
The stupid joke in this story - because I only ever devise fictional narratives based on stupid jokes - is that the protagonist dude really, honestly, seriously hates the rest of his party of adventurers and really, honestly, seriously does not want to be the one to save the world. He's not being tsundere and he's not being a reluctant hero, this is how he actually feels. A new potential romantic route opens for him in every storyline, and that just makes him really mad, he never asked to be the protagonist.
(The party's obligatory female cleric successfully petitioned her goddess to cast him as the protagonist because he ticked her off. He tries to arrange for the main villain to show up and kill her with a sword while she's praying in the obligatory water temple.)
Anyway, I came to the conclusion, while thinking about this, that people would totally hack the game to keep the hot guy in the party if I ever actually made it. So I decided that I would let there be a laborious way to bring him along that requires backtracking through a boring area for a long time and leaving a more-useful character behind.
In every plotline the characters get a new special technique, which they use automatically in certain circumstances. His is called "Excalliburton," and when he uses it he throws a bunch of your money up in the air, doing damage to the enemy, to your own party, and to any neutral or friendly NPCs nearby on the screen.
So I'm both a jerk and a person who makes dated puns. That is the takeaway of the story I just told.
