Ossan Teihen Chiyu-shi to Manasume no Henkyou Life - Vol. 2 Ch. 8 - A Sudden Proposal

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The problem is that if an author makes elves behave like regular people, then the elves are just humans with pointy ears and possibly a longer lifespan. Of course there are other ways to make them different from humans than making them arrogant assholes, so I can agree on it being tiresome if every series made them like that. That being said, even if an author makes them arrogant and cold toward humans, they can still be tolerable otherwise if the story's worldbuilding is decent enough.
And what's so bad about that? Just because they have pointy ears and live longer it doesn't mean they have to be much different from humans, also, this is just a single village, doesn't mean all elves act like them.
 
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And what's so bad about that? Just because they have pointy ears and live longer it doesn't mean they have to be much different from humans, also, this is just a single village, doesn't mean all elves act like them.
It's my personal preference that they would be more different than that. It would make the world more varied. If it's just cosmetic in practice, because in only a few series the lifespan really plays a role (though there are some, like Frieren or Tensei Shite High Elf ni Narimashitaga), it just reminds me of cosmetic microtransactions in games. In too few fantasy series we have wildly different cultures/societies anyway. Even in RL medieval Europe, there were big differences between north and south, east and west, and if you went a bit out of Europe to Asia Minor, Middle East, or North Africa, you would certainly get something very different. If you had that, and then elves, dwarves, and such having their own, very unique societies, it would be awesome.
 
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You know its nice to seen a world where people behave in a way that makes sense, yes there is magic and stuff but seeing how mc didn't came back at the expected time got people worried, the not having the means to appraisal the big ass dragon on a small guild, etc. makes it feel real.
 
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You know its nice to seen a world where people behave in a way that makes sense, yes there is magic and stuff but seeing how mc didn't came back at the expected time got people worried, the not having the means to appraisal the big ass dragon on a small guild, etc. makes it feel real.
Yes, the part where she quickly asked him to not take out an entire dragon right there... In any other story the MC would just take some massive amount of creatures out right in the middle of the hall and play it for a laugh.
 
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would be kind of funny if they turned out to be his dad and mom (only cuz we know nothing about his dad and mom or about her sister and her husband)
 

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