[Darius Drake]

Originally Posted by Haigi

The MC's okay for me I guess...aside for the fact that he's too self depreciating. Just...argh...be happy already! The fact that

Spoiler for to sum up OP MC and his downside troubles:

just because he wanted a little bit of power to help out in the activities of the village he got tricked and was turned into a vessel for an evil god. As a result he killed everyone in the village he was trying to help. (the sole reason why he feels he does not have the right to be happy.)

Even if the Sister used her life in exchange for a restraint that would help control the god but that being said his godly powers will leak out when he displays a great amount of emotion/weakness. Which in turn makes him even more gloomy because he might go on a rampage again. As a result he has a fear of making friends or being close to anyone.

On top of that he had a duty in the form of the vigilante Masquerade pushed onto him by someone else. Using that power he goes around threatening and interrogating bad people and to round it all up he's desperate to find a way back to his world.

Ahhh...but on Earth he's probably (almost) invincibru~ There's his modus operandi of flattening/torturing/threatening people only to the extent of not killing them. Yet letting them go if they apologize/atone. (there's no 'bad guys have to die for the sake of resolving the issue or i need resolve to kill people' stuff here)

From the spoilers I've read, the focus of the story seems to be something along the lines of "I'm suffering through life as best I can, even though I have superpowers".

Spoiler for Yes, Yes, No. Arguement:

Yes, he's divinely powerful. Yes, he hasn't hurt anyone when he's been in control of himself. Yes, he's probably saved more lives than he's harmed/taken. No, I do not agree that this those points allow him to just ignore his traumatic events.

Quite honestly, the effects of a "typical" person ("typical" in this case being the local equivalent of what I think a 'White Middle-Class Teenager who is probably be just a background character in movies, tv and video games' is) killing somone could be emotionally devistating. This likelyhood is multiplied by the fact that the people he killed accepted him when everyone else chased him away, probably with weapons, taught them how to speak their language, and all around quickly became like a second family to him.

Okay, sure, the town died because they tried to turn him into an evil god, but by then he had probably been about as emotionally invested in the people of the town as a freshly brainwashed cult member is emotionally invested in their cult. And he only got control of his body back because one of them sacrificed their soul to him. So that can be seen as a minor point, especially when looked through the badly prescribed glasses of emotion.

If you're looking for a story of someone having a realistic (possible) climb from the depths of depression, with some interesting asides such as literally dealing with a world that drastically changed when he wasn't looking, this sounds like story for you. If you're looking for a story about someone who's overpowered and getting on with life no matter what's in their past, you might want to look somewhere else.