Off rip, I have to start this by saying you are a phenomenal writer. Your posts flow well, you bounce off of other writers well, and you do a great job at painting a mental picture of what's going on. You clearly have great ideas for what you want to accomplish with your characters on the site. You're a joy to work with when it comes to running TJO and you're great to chat with in voice. You're a down to earth guy and I appreciate our friendship. However, I can't say Wyatt is a character I'm gunning to read when a post comes up. It is important to know the extent of what I see of Wyatt is the public threads we write together. I haven't seen anything more private on the character, but here we go.
Wyatt, much like Carnifex as the Dark Lord, is what you'd expect of a Jedi Master. He has a sound mind, well put together, badass in the force and with a lightsaber. For me personally, that doesn't really make a great character. From what I've seen, he just feels two dimensional. You expect a Jedi to care, be patient, and be willing to do the right thing. That's something a lot of Jedi characters share. What I don't see are exploitable weaknesses, flaws that bite into his story, and a means of dragging him down. In a collaborative writing environment, I feel like the better characters are ones who you can interact with. I recall you mentioning him being a wrathful man with a fear of falling to the dark side. For a Jedi, those are two amazing weaknesses. We look at Anakin, a character who was lacking on the big screen, but really shined in the Clone Wars, and those are traits he shares with Wyatt. He fears losing the people he loves and he allows his anger to control him. When his mother was taken from him, he slaughtered every man, woman, and child in that village. There was no question what Anakin Skywalkers was about at that moment.
I look back on Wyatt's interactions with Voyance and Kor Vexen on Kintan. These are two powerful Sith Lords who both should be able to hold their own against Wyatt, even having the potential to beat him in a fight. Yet, back to back we see Wyatt take them on and defeat them both. When Voyance spoke of the dark side, perhaps to tempt Wyatt, nothing came of it. I would think two of the most well written Sith on the site could shake Wyatt's resolve enough for him to falter and fail, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It leaves me wondering, does Wyatt really have weaknesses? Where is the depth in the character beyond writing a grandmasteresque character?
His skillset also leaves me questioning what others are supposed to do with this character. A precognition-battlemaster specialist doesn't seem like a character someone can write around. I would liken it to throwing a ball at a wall. In a collaborative story, I'd hope the person I'm writing with could catch that ball and throw it back, keeping it interesting. In the case of Wyatt, I feel like it be akin to throwing a ball at a wall and catching it yourself. You know what's coming at you. You can guess with certainty where that ball is gonna end up once it bounces off. Yeah, that ball might be hella cool and that wall might look sick af, but what's the point of the exercise if you know how it'll end up every time?
At the end of the day, I look at characters like Kanan Jaruus, Qui-Gon, and Kit Fisto as great Jedi characters. Each one of them is a badass in their own right, but none of them resemble Wyatt as he is. Qui-Gon was set in his ways, unwilling to change, so he died. Kit Fisto was one of the greatest duelists of his time, trusting greatly in the force, but when it was time to confront Sidious he didn't want to do it without the likes of Obi-Wan or Yoda. Hell, even Obi-Wan took repeated Ls throughout the time we see him on the big screen and the Clone Wars.
I want to see more explored than just the perfect Jedi. That's been done a million times and we both know you can write something far more compelling than the by-the-books grandmaster.
