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| 08 Feb 2014 08:24 PM |
He, possessing a similar personality to my own, does not put himself out there and often doubts his abilities. Are a lot of other characters with this mind-set, or is it a realistic perspective in an abstract world?
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| 08 Feb 2014 08:31 PM |
Well, I dunno many story characters considering the fact that I only read specific fantasy books, stick to those books, reread them when I get bored, and maybe once or twice a year find a new book...
...but I think that a lot of characters possess a tiny bit of that quality, but not to the point where it makes up most of their being as a whole...
I've never read a book where the main character was 100% certain all the time over his/her actions because arrogance isn't an admirable trait in a story, y'know?
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| 08 Feb 2014 08:57 PM |
I spend so much time in my head it'll be hard to bring those undesirable qualities to life.
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| 08 Feb 2014 08:59 PM |
"I spend so much time in my head it'll be hard to bring those undesirable qualities to life."
But undesirable qualities can make a character unique...
I mean, how many books have you read where the main character was a complete jerk who had no friends and killed everyone he or she saw?
How many books have you read where both the villains and the main characters die at the end and the neutral parties take over afterwards?
I've never read any...sometimes, undesirable things in stories can be desirable because they're different from the cliche... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:20 PM |
Oh I know that. I want to give them real flaws, but I struggle with the details.
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:21 PM |
"Oh I know that. I want to give them real flaws, but I struggle with the details."
What kind of details do you struggle with? |
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:23 PM |
I don't know... how many flaws to give them while retaining their original characteristics?
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:31 PM |
"I don't know... how many flaws to give them while retaining their original characteristics?"
For every positive characteristic, there should be one or so negative.
I'd say there should be 2-4 positives and 2-4 negatives because that prevents the character from leaning toward the Mary Sue side...
3 seems like the number that sticks out to me...
I mean, this is just what I think about character balance and development, though, and I'm sure with more than 4 characteristics you can have a well-developed, balanced character who's not a Mary Sue... :)
I haven't really made any characters before, but I've read a lot about character development and have thought about it a lot, so... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:50 PM |
Song make a fox fursona please.
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:51 PM |
"Song make a fox fursona please."
Hmm, ok, I'll make one up, but since I don't really like my writing "style" that much, I doubt I'll post anything about him/her... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:54 PM |
Oh but you must! If I pushed myself to write out all those, so can you. C:
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| 08 Feb 2014 09:56 PM |
"Oh but you must! If I pushed myself to write out all those, so can you. C:"
I suppose it's only fair for me to make one after wanting you to make some... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:13 PM |
Well actually I've had those characters cooking up since the beginning. Back when I was about 13, I was really into Dragonball Z and Warriors, so naturally I drew an anthro Moris performing action poses and all these crazy awesome characters... ahhh, it's all coming back to me. I had quite a few original ideas.
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:15 PM |
"Well actually I've had those characters cooking up since the beginning. Back when I was about 13, I was really into Dragonball Z and Warriors, so naturally I drew an anthro Moris performing action poses and all these crazy awesome characters... ahhh, it's all coming back to me. I had quite a few original ideas."
I'm probably not gonna be very good at this...
I can't even come up with a name...
The problem is that I don't want to name my characters typical names, but I don't want them to be too obscure, and I don't want the names to be words found in the dictionary... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:26 PM |
"The problem is that I don't want to name my characters typical names, but I don't want them to be too obscure, and I don't want the names to be words found in the dictionary..."
I used to use "cool" words, or ones that have dynamic. Mistranslations from ancient languages work, too! For instance: Korona is an unintentional misspell of "Corona", which means "burning" in Greek. He's a fire dog you see.
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:28 PM |
"I used to use "cool" words, or ones that have dynamic. Mistranslations from ancient languages work, too! For instance: Korona is an unintentional misspell of "Corona", which means "burning" in Greek. He's a fire dog you see."
Hmm, that makes sense, but I'm still pretty tentative on naming my characters...
I need something that's just right... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:31 PM |
Yeah, names are tough. D'zu is really good at these things.
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:34 PM |
"Yeah, names are tough. D'zu is really good at these things."
Yah...
Hmm, I can't name the fox... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:41 PM |
Pepper might be a good name. I used to have a Roblox friend named Pepper. Maybe "Pepre" or "Pep`e"?
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:42 PM |
"Pepper might be a good name. I used to have a Roblox friend named Pepper. Maybe "Pepre" or "Pep`e"?"
Pepper....
Is sounds like the name of an upbeat kind of character...like, not one who's bouncing-off-the-walls-hyper, but one who's leaning toward the nicer side... |
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:43 PM |
Yeah, like a calm-and-collected chill character.
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| 08 Feb 2014 10:44 PM |
"Yeah, like a calm-and-collected chill character."
Exactly! :) |
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