Talk:The Chosen One/@comment-31077845-20170201040646

Negatives - my life is predetermined to only exist within certain confines and could potentially be shut off any time.

Positives - I can send people flying by shouting at them correctly and can steal the clothing off of women without them noticing, while taking anything I want so long as I place a bucket on the shopkeeper's head before I take it. Also, thanks to steam, I can tell I've already spent over a thousand hours of my life being the "chosen one" in one way or another. Also I can just reload an earlier save if things don't work out how I want them to.

So yeah, I still think being the dragonborn sounds like a pretty ok deal. Plus have you ever considered that our lives are already predetermined, hm? That we just happen to have a few more available skills and sidequests? Do you think the dragonborn or Gordon Freeman have the capacity to recognize what they are? Have you considered that some greater consciousness might look at us as humans and pity our limited ability to determine our own destiny, as we're nothing more than slaves to a combination of biology and what we refer to as "circumstance" (whether or not randomness exists is a philosophical debate for another time).

And as a side note whether or not being Gordan Freeman was cool would probably depend on whether or not they ever came out with a 3rd half life and he finally got in Alex Vance's pants. Because tappin' dat ass would definitely make stuff like getting repeatedly chewed apart by barnacles and assaulted by headcrabs far more tolerable.