MasterPokey wrote:
Torg keeps delving into the unlikable tone-deaf character tropes lately. Fails to be charming.
I feel like Torg is experiencing some cognitive dissonance. For so long, he had been dealing with an extreme external threat of hC, partially his fault, and the external crisis of Oasis, also related to actions he took.
Now all those are gone.
When they first came to this dimension, there were the simple external threats of monsters.
Now, in this dimension and time, there are no external violent threats. The lack of current violent threats and the defeat of the familiar ones, coupled with the seeming-fact that you could read everybody, may have made him feel that all was well and he didn't need to worry about anything. When the pressure is off, Torg generally seems to default to goofy.
The difficulty for us is that we are accustomed to assuming that behind that goofiness, strategy is brewing. Without a driving force like hC, having been refused his marriage proposal, and
kind of liking it here, he doesn't need strategy, he is free to simply react to immediate circumstances, like wanting to jump onto a moving train.