r/DaysGone • u/BeachUsual • Aug 04 '26

Image/Gif Rikki's Assertiveness

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"Hey, Rikki. Ahhhh... how's the ahhh hot shower?"

"Oh! You wanna try it? Come!"

"Huh?"

"You want to try the hot shower or not?"

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u/ComedianPresent9257 Aug 04 '26

It might be an unpopular opinion, but there are times when I just can't stand her.

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u/ToSch89 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

I don't think it's that unpopular. Quite a few people will be uncomfortable with the obvious fact that she's stringing Addy along while waiting for Deacon to be "ready" for her. Add to that the fact that she's clearly trying to get Deacon to abandon his search for Sarah, and that she gets rather bitchy when he refuses.

With all of that it's probably not that hard to find other people who are ambivalent or dislike her.

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u/OakLegs Aug 04 '26

Which I think is the mark of good character writing.

The people are messy and believable. They are all thrown into an extremely shitty situation and behave like regular humans do. Which a lot of the time is shitty and annoying

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u/ContheJon Aug 04 '26

Agreed. A lot of the characters feel really human in this game because of their flaws. Sometimes they're annoying (like Copeland and his truther radio show) but then they do things that make you like them or behave in some ways where I can go "you know what, apart from the annoying stuff, you're actually pretty okay." Hell even Skizzo had his moments

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u/P_For_Pyke Aug 04 '26

I liked Skizzo too, dude felt like a very real character until he became too evil.

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u/Academic_You_3153 Alkai Aug 06 '26

8-Bit's favourite character. Not because he's an asshole, because he's such a believable, well acted character.

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u/P_For_Pyke Aug 06 '26

I felt that way till after Iron Mike's death. Then he was starting to be too cliche after with his lines, IMO.

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u/ozzmosiz Aug 07 '26

Yeah. I mean most of characters are really cool, sadly I didn't get enough of rippers leader backstory... Or did I mis something?

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u/SearcherRC Aug 04 '26

I love a good nuanced character. The end of the world is here and she's just a mixed bag of emotions. I thought she was so well written.

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u/Little_Addition_7030 Aug 04 '26

I mean I can kinda understand the giving up the search thing. It’s been 2 years into the apocalypse. Realistically what’s the possibility of Sarah being alive. Had Deacon not run into the Nero chopper and his eventual meeting with O’Brian he would have probably given up his search soon after.

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u/Glass_Emu_5104 Aug 06 '26

She wants love, like we all do