To lift the veil a little, mostly no, but occasionally yes.
No: In that I am rarely, if ever, actually triggered or made nervous about a work of fiction at this point. It's all fiction and it doesn't really phase me anymore. I'm not deeply worried about getting Chloe 'wrong,' and I have a few RP partners that, if they see something that makes them raise an eyebrow, will call me on it privately. I'm always open for constructive critique, but I'm not really nervous with Chloe anymore.
Yes: The truth is that Noir isn't a 'comfortable' anime. On the surface, it's pretty tame as killer vixen assassin flicks go, so there's not a lot that might make people freak out on the surface. Just girls with guns shooting people and having 'feelings' as the truth is revealed. But, if one reads between the lines, Altena's backstory is trigger hell, Chloe is an unquestionable sociopath who is creepily obsessed with Kirika, Kirika's a massive headcase whose emotional fabric shatters several times in the series, and the 'nicest' member of the cast, Mireille, is basically a remorseless murderer for hire. Their victims range from the completely innocent to the worst scum imaginable, and a few of the scenes get just a little creepy. Chloe, in particular, does things that make people who pay attention to her actions and her motives understandably uncomfortable.
I personally do not shy away from it, but I also recognize that I do not as a player want other players uncomfortable. Opt-outs are all well and good. I've used them for years, and 95% of the time they work perfectly. People who aren't comfortable come to me, we hash it out, and they never have to worry about Chloe, or if they prefer it, me. But there's always that 5%. Maybe they didn't realize they were triggered until it was too late, maybe they weren't comfortable coming to the other player because they worried it might make them feel bad, maybe just something changed down the road. I'm almost always a bit of a perpetual worrier about whether or not a new player I don't know well is going to be bothered by Chloe's canon in a way that impedes their own enjoyment.
Reaver and Sam were also the same way. I usually don't play 'comfortable' characters like Shayla Shayla (another old muse of mine) that often. I like head games, darker storylines and moral questions to come up. So, I gravitate towards characters that I know sometimes make people not quite so comfortable. (God, Reaver is just awful if you don't know the Fable franchise.) So, I think this worry tends to haunt me in almost every game, and since MidSyn it's taken me a while to get more or less comfortable getting out there in a new game.
Whoops, sorry for the mouthful there. But, short version: Not really worried about Chloe, but always very concerned about others' comfort zones.
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To lift the veil a little, mostly no, but occasionally yes.
No: In that I am rarely, if ever, actually triggered or made nervous about a work of fiction at this point. It's all fiction and it doesn't really phase me anymore. I'm not deeply worried about getting Chloe 'wrong,' and I have a few RP partners that, if they see something that makes them raise an eyebrow, will call me on it privately. I'm always open for constructive critique, but I'm not really nervous with Chloe anymore.
Yes: The truth is that Noir isn't a 'comfortable' anime. On the surface, it's pretty tame as killer vixen assassin flicks go, so there's not a lot that might make people freak out on the surface. Just girls with guns shooting people and having 'feelings' as the truth is revealed. But, if one reads between the lines, Altena's backstory is trigger hell, Chloe is an unquestionable sociopath who is creepily obsessed with Kirika, Kirika's a massive headcase whose emotional fabric shatters several times in the series, and the 'nicest' member of the cast, Mireille, is basically a remorseless murderer for hire. Their victims range from the completely innocent to the worst scum imaginable, and a few of the scenes get just a little creepy. Chloe, in particular, does things that make people who pay attention to her actions and her motives understandably uncomfortable.
I personally do not shy away from it, but I also recognize that I do not as a player want other players uncomfortable. Opt-outs are all well and good. I've used them for years, and 95% of the time they work perfectly. People who aren't comfortable come to me, we hash it out, and they never have to worry about Chloe, or if they prefer it, me. But there's always that 5%. Maybe they didn't realize they were triggered until it was too late, maybe they weren't comfortable coming to the other player because they worried it might make them feel bad, maybe just something changed down the road. I'm almost always a bit of a perpetual worrier about whether or not a new player I don't know well is going to be bothered by Chloe's canon in a way that impedes their own enjoyment.
Reaver and Sam were also the same way. I usually don't play 'comfortable' characters like Shayla Shayla (another old muse of mine) that often. I like head games, darker storylines and moral questions to come up. So, I gravitate towards characters that I know sometimes make people not quite so comfortable. (God, Reaver is just awful if you don't know the Fable franchise.) So, I think this worry tends to haunt me in almost every game, and since MidSyn it's taken me a while to get more or less comfortable getting out there in a new game.
Whoops, sorry for the mouthful there. But, short version: Not really worried about Chloe, but always very concerned about others' comfort zones.