Not that the Abbey is particularly gloomy compared to other places, but that there's not as much pleasure and joy as gloom and doom in many RPs that I see.
When I take Nicodemus out, he's a cheerful sort. But it takes a lot of cheer to counte a single "My parents were killed by vermin hug me!" cry.
It's easier just to leave at that point, and the RP dies.
In the books, even those beasts who suffered terrible losses weren't gloomy. They were melancholy at times, and they had sorrows and they mourned, but, life goes on and life is too short to spend in misery.
When I take Nicodemus out, he's a cheerful sort. But it takes a lot of cheer to counte a single "My parents were killed by vermin hug me!" cry.
It's easier just to leave at that point, and the RP dies.
In the books, even those beasts who suffered terrible losses weren't gloomy. They were melancholy at times, and they had sorrows and they mourned, but, life goes on and life is too short to spend in misery.
Otter