Why Nikkal from The Flower from Tiamat´s Fire is starting to get on my nerves
Honestly, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm tired of Nikkal's jealousy. It's childish. As if Kingu didn't have a right to live his own life as he saw fit with whoever he wanted to hundreds of years before Nikkal was even born, before he even met her or before he even knew she was going to exist some day. It's not like it was cheating either as they weren't in a relationship at that point and he owed her something. Besides it's not like Nikkal also didn't probably have some of her own "acquintainces" over the years in the past since she is already 30 herself, so she might not be entirely inexperienced either, the mage's extended lifespan notwithstanding. It is especially hypocritical of my own MC who had a secret threesome with Shamash and Enlil and actually cheated on Kingu without him knowing any better.🤷 Just my two cents.
Edit: People were really downvoting me because of this on Reddit and in response to them asking whether I wouldn´t be feeling the same and that it´s completely natural to feel that way and that it isn´t a sign of immaturity when someone says that they are angry that someone, who personally never did anything to them and whom they never even met, even existed just because they used to date your current boyfriend centuries ago before you were even a thing, I said this:
Perhaps at the beginning but the problem is that Nikkal is always jealous and it seems to get progressively worse even as time passes. That's not normal and shows that you are insecure about your partner and your relationship with him.
Also whether other players had similar reactions as Nikkal or not is irrelevant to whether this is a healthy or a mature type of behavior from a grown up woman. Everyone gets jealous from time to time, that's true, but if you don't know limit, than it can transform into an illness.
If others find a person hating a kind and innocent woman who was cruelly manipulated and killed, a victim in her own right, who did nothing to them except having the gall to have a relationship with someone hundreds of years before they were even born, relatable, I can't stop them, but I'm sorry that I can't feel the same. The hate Ningal gets in the fandom is too much and for pretty bizarre reasons too.
To be clear I don't hate Nikkal, as a MC she was one of the better ones, it's just this aspect of her personality that I don't enjoy.
Peace!🙂
I wonder if it´s because many of the players are too attached to their MCs and to some extent view them as their own fictional alter egos, so they take everything that is said against them, even if it is just a constructive criticism meant in a good faith, as a personal attack on them. Therefore they feel threatened that there was another beautiful woman in their LIs lives that might have been more important to them at some point in time than their own MC, who for the first time isn´t the first in everything and the world might not revolve around her.
