Character Development for Red Mage

[ryu_planeswalker]

The other lightbulb warriors have gotten development in some means or another, and the only bit we have seen of that was negated by Thief's comment on how he was fooling around with RM.

Has RM gotten any real Development as a character in terms of backstory or am I forgetting something?

[Dark Seraphim]

Well.... His patron is caused by the halucination weakness he took...

[ZAKtheGeek]

Seems like very little is known about RM's backstory. What little there is seems to be mostly a fabrication of thief's...

[ryu_planeswalker]

so we basicaly know nothing about RM's past?

[Lucis]

Well, initially Red Mage had a fear of using any of his abilities (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=011102) due to "becoming less versatile" after the ability was expended. As we can see now, he's more prone to using them (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=031028), but in a horribly incompetent fashion (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060418).

Beyond that, I can't really think of any character development for Red Mage. Most of what we know about him is either the product of thief's mind-manipulations, or the result of his hallucination flaw, as previously mentioned.

[death_trooper]

Red mage seems to be a sort of sarda fan boy, being unable to use any true responsibility without destoriyng something
I'd say sarda will help RM's background come into the light

[MuMu]

Like lucis said, after the Deathtrap disaster RM is using more his abilities. Failing miserably, but using anyway.

[justice777]

There's a comic (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=011010) that shows what he was taught in whatever red mage academy he came from.

[death_trooper]

Like lucis said, after the Deathtrap disaster RM is using more his abilities. Failing miserably, but using anyway.

That doesn't make me feel any safer...
Oh, bless Red mage, at least he TRIED to help and NOT destroy our village in a mass of firey page that will crush us for years to come, plagueing our lands and murdering our children :P

RM should be locked away in a very small room with little food and less oxygen.

(and i dont mean any offense....:sweatdrop )

[bolevar321]

The other lightbulb warriors have gotten development in some means or another, and the only bit we have seen of that was negated by Thief's comment on how he was fooling around with RM.

Has RM gotten any real Development as a character in terms of backstory or am I forgetting something?
Hello fellow planeswalker...
Yeah, RM doesn't have much of a backstory. Basically, he learned in some sort of red mage academy about the philosophies of red magery, then went right out looking for a quest (for XP.) Then, he stumbled upon the LWs.

[Seran]

The only thing I know is that something taught him that the world was based around the dice and the rolls of the otherworldly force that controls him, otherwise known as the "player". He rolls dice and believes that, depending on the outcome, it would determine how well he would have done. He has his own personal character sheet, supplied by either himself or someone else, and apparently had a silver weapon from the start from a certain werewolf episode...
From the illusion that Thief cast upon him, we saw Red Mage's father as a Scholar. [How many Scholar sprites are in this comic, besides the Dwarves and the Elves? Good lord.] Not sure if he is.
Red Mage also seems to depend on versatility to survive all the troubles he would face in his life, as he believes in something called Ascension.

Overall, his background is...quite vague.

[Clord]

Mysterious background usually make character great.

[Sam_Drugbringer]

No backstory possibly means he's not really a light warrior.

[greed]

Well really none of them are, the "real" LWs are still on that ice island.

[Dj_StarChild]

Sure they're the Real Light Warriors. The "real" light warriors were too late. Too bad for them. :)

I think a little bit of backstory on Red Mage would be cool. Fighter seems to have the most backstory, and I think that kinda makes him the star of the show, even if he's a bit dumb.

Whit mage's mackstory seems to be the actual comic itself, what with the death of BB and creating the universe. maybe she and Red Mage share the same quality of having no story prior to the comic's opening, and they are paving a road through history for themselves pretty flowers butterflies and bunny rabbits, fluffy clouds and ham 'n cheese sandwiches.... Sorry, too much purple prose.

[happy_turtle]

It wasn's so much the death of BB that caused the creation of the universe as was WM inability to not yell at sada ABOUT BB death...which caused him to put her in the pocket dimension that turned out to be the beginning of the universe.

Sarda could have let BB die to spite WM because in this comic (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=041230) that shows this isn't the first time that WM has been "god" to the universe. Sarda knew it would happen and the pocket was more of a means to prevent it from happening.

[Dj_StarChild]

I didn't mean to draw a connection between the two events, I was simply listing events that may have contributed to the development of her character in the eyes of the readers.

[happy_turtle]

O...I misplaced that conjecturing power of the word "and". I'm sorry...

[Burkion]

You guys don't get it, do ya? RM is Sarda.

[bolevar321]

You guys don't get it, do ya? RM is Sarda.
It makes so much sense! Except... no. Sarda is who RM wants to be, true, but RM canNOT become that cool.

[Ryong]

Uh, when did Thief cast a Illusion spell on RM?And there's SOME backstory for RM when he kept wearing that dress...Or maybe that was thief's illusion spell?

[Seran]

No, Thief twisted his mind with lies, making him think he was a cross-dresser because he had problems with his family.

False memory:
"Son, I hate you. I wanted a daughter."
Reply to memory:
"Daddy, why didn't you love me?"

Yeah...Thief's cool and mean that way.