Qi and Logan

[House Gnome]

You know, every time I play this it strikes me that Qi actually has the most nuanced and compassionate take on Logan's behavior. The person most separated from the town goings on (other then Zeke), and he is the only one to suggest maybe Logan actually just needs help. it doesn't matter that he is wrong in his assessment, it's still the most compassionate take, imo.

[𝕰𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆]

And yet Logan feels different about Qi. If you rememnber how he reacts when Andy is expending too much time with Doctor Qi....oops I mean DIRECTOR. :)

[House Gnome]

I don't remember what you are referring to. I do remember Logan is actually pretty happy about it, just surprised.

[𝕰𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆]

I felt like he think Qi is too wierd for Andy choose to expend time with. But that is just me.

[House Gnome]

The only times I can recall him talking about Qi at all is regarding Andy.

During Andy's last wish he says that Qi is "Kinda the last feller in town I'd ever see you takin' after". I don't think that's really an insult, just an observation, especially since Andy had literally just called him "that uppity science feller".

Then during the pre-cut scene for his proposal he says:
Ahem... Andy really don't like school... but he's a good kid. He's been spendin' a lot of time with the Director in the Research Center.
Long as he's interested in learnin', I'm happy. I don't think school teaches ya everythin' you need. Oh, don't tell him I said that...

Neither of these seem like he doesn't like Qi or thinks he is weird to me.

Heck, I like Qi, but the fact he has the compassionate take on Logan's antics is really shocking to me. He's kind of uninterested in anything outside of himself and his interests in general.

[𝕰𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆]

Yes, all these you mentioned here is true, I know this. The why I felt that way about Logan is because of this "Kinda the last feller in town I'd ever see you takin' after" which can be take it either way, negative or positive.

It is positive, well Andy love to be smart. He seem Qi as a smart person.

It is negative, well Logan can be seem as wierd too since what he is doing after his father death isn't right.

LOL and I married Logan just for Andy. :)

[SimuLord]

Qi seems to be that way toward the town in general. He's far enough outside of everything to play a similar role to Ernest in terms of commenting on the events of the game as you play. He even leans on the fourth wall sometimes.

[House Gnome]

Yes, I love his comments regarding still asking for data disks even in the face of impending doom.

[February]

I admit I was a little astonished by Qi's surprisingly compassionate take on Logan's situation, but also pleased because I liked Qi.

Then he not only puts up with Andy, he encourages and helps him. And his commentary after the school is built is also the most caring, humanitarian dialogue for that event. I also feel sometimes that the game doesn't give him enough credit for his inventions, but he does it all anyway.

I think this game does a great job with characters who may be off-putting to some players at a glance, but then they grow on you as you get to know them and discover the nuances of their personalities. Thinking specifically of Qi, Fang, and Cooper. (I never especially disliked any of them, but they certainly all got more endearing with time.)

[House Gnome]

Originally posted by februaryInk:

I think this game does a great job with characters who may be off-putting to some players at a glance, but then they grow on you as you get to know them and discover the nuances of their personalities. Thinking specifically of Qi, Fang, and Cooper. (I never especially disliked any of them, but they certainly all got more endearing with time.)

I agree. For me it was Cooper and Burgess. I found Burgess especially annoying at first, but now he's one of my favorites. He's just so dang wholesome without any ulterior motives, and his ARCS quest is one of the funniest ones in the game. I especially love his response to the pyromaniac and the fact he lets me scream things like "i'll kill you" at them, lol.

[𝕰𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆]

If you get to go on a date with Qi, he will talk to you very respectful, loyal, and beautiful about Mint.

[PrplGrl]

I actually feel like Burgess, but especially Owen, have the most compassionate takes on Logan, cause Burgess always saw good in Logan, and believed he'd 'come back to the light one day' and expressed the wish that he if he could just accept responsibility for what he's done, he hopes he would 'one day rejoin the flock,' (living in Sandrock again);
but Owen said that he considered Logan to be his friend, and showed empathy for what he must have experienced with what happened to his father, saying he wouldn't know what he'd do if he was in that situation, probably the same thing, and that if he just turned himself in, the healing could begin. Even if they might be wrong in their assessments of Logan too, I felt that these 2 stood out the most to me, concerning caring about Logan during his 'bandit' phase.

[February]

Originally posted by House Gnome:

... his ARCS quest is one of the funniest ones in the game. I especially love his response to the pyromaniac and the fact he lets me scream things like "i'll kill you" at them, lol.

I played that whole quest with a pained smile on my face. On the one hand it's laughably funny, but on the other I'm just wondering the whole time how my builder and Burgess are getting away with being so bizarre...and the ARCs are somehow going along with it? I half expected to find out that Dan-bi had planted those people so that Burgess wouldn't get his naive little heart trampled all over.

[House Gnome]

Originally posted by februaryInk:

and the ARCs are somehow going along with it?

Well, to be fair, the ARCS are a little off their own rockers. I shall happily be the sidekick of the Dewdrop Cop.

[February]

Originally posted by House Gnome:

Well, to be fair, the ARCS are a little off their own rockers.

At-Risk Citizens indeed.