Drama Queens & Long-suffering Kings

In KTDARPG, we seem to have uncovered a jackpot in drama queens lately. You know the type--panicky, swooning females desperate for a strong male type to take care of them & protect them from the big bad world. (And as for our drama queens in the game...you know who you are!)

Nothing wrong with that. We take our examples from "The Tribe," after all. And who was a better drama queen than Season-1's Trudy? Or Season-5's Gel? Good bookends to the series, actually. Faint-hearted, new-mom Trudy desperate to lasso Bray & lock him in for her own security. Ditzy Gel all a-twitter about her 3 handsome knights-in-armor in Liberty--Jack & Slade & Lex--though they didn't quite see themselves that way. Ah, well...we can't all be warrior-women now, can we? What would be the fun in that?

And it's not all about the girls, either.

Guys go into their own version--the misunderstood, long-suffering male. You know the type. At any stressful or tragic or passionate moment, we get "a single tear slowly drops down his cheek." Yeah, you've seen it. We could also call that the Luke Syndrome. Remember him? Season-3's "mea culpa" boy who wanted to take on all the sins the Guardian committed and sacrifice himself for them. Sometimes, you just wanna take him by the...neck...and shake him until he snaps out of it! There's no talking to the long-suffering king. He won't hear you.

Fortunately we have fewer kings than queens in the game. They add a bit of spice (usually in the form of unintentional humor-by-cliche). But as with spice, a little bit goes a long way.

So here's a salute to the Drama Queens & Long-suffering Kings in our version of Tribe-world. Sometimes I think we could do without you, and then I realize--the game wouldn't be near as much fun. So just keep being yourselves & emulate our Tribe predecessors. That can never be bad.

And by the way, thanks for the laughter you bring us! --Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"