Necromancer Survival Chapter 170 Discussion

This MC is honestly one of the most insipid, uninspiring, passive protagonists that I've ever come across. Not just in BL/Yaoi but across everything I've ever read. I think he may have been meant as an everyman kind of character, but at the same time, there's a reason why biographies about average people mostly don't get published and read.

He actually comes across as a sniveling coward at times, and a lot of his conversation is him repeating a word the other party said with a stutter even in relatively innocuous situations. He doesn't actually have a stutter, it's just that his brain seems to short-circuit rather easily. While I won't judge people IRL for acting like that in critical situations, he's someone who signed up to be a User (dungeoneer in a world where there is real risk of injuries and death while dungeoneering). So it's like in addition to all his other faults, he's not very self-aware in some ways. Since we have access to his thoughts, I don't find him particularly insightful. There are times where he does think something quite deep but those are few and far between and a lot of times it comes across as the author needing to get some exposition in and justify or set the tone for the interaction.

Honestly, the only notable thing about him is his rare class, Necromancer. It is a choice he pretty much blundered into (it's not even a good choice, it just happened to work out for him because of specific circumstances). There is nothing about his personality or character that really makes him critical to the team. If it were a real situation, I would say that any other Necromancer would suffice and probably do better in the circumstances he found himself in. It's actually inexplicable that so many people would be drawn to him. It's explained that his servants seem to be under some kind of geas but other randoms also seem obsessed with him. No, it's probably not because he's particularly attractive the way many BL protagonists are, you can tell from many initial interactions that he has no pretty privilege.

I'm interested in the plot itself, the revenge is quite interesting but with the caveat that it all requires a heavy suspension of disbelief. It's like everybody else forgets he's a necromancer or have not even the slightest idea of what that class does.