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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 0:32:17 GMT
Not deus ex machina, big damn heroes. I plan on introducing Kat's big sis that way.
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Post by Lady Ruliya on Sept 30, 2013 0:33:08 GMT
Sorry, I didn't mean you per se. I meant, more in line with the thread, what I don't like about certain stories.
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 0:37:47 GMT
So I spoiled a detail for no reason, dam
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Post by Lady Ruliya on Sept 30, 2013 0:39:57 GMT
So I spoiled a detail for no reason, dam Not necessarily. We don't know the story, probably won't remember the fact when you get it published ;P It's all good ^^
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Post by Lady Ruliya on Sept 30, 2013 0:50:42 GMT
I mean seriously... Have you read a book, seen a film, played a game, where a MC is in distress, they might die! But wait, at the last second, shit just randomly happens and they're fine... the day is saved? How much peril can a character be in, if you know they'll survive? I get that it's a critical moment in character arcs, that stuff happens and they learn and change from the experience. I just think, if a character could actually die... it makes it more poignant when some of them don't.
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 0:53:53 GMT
I did say it was a detail
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Post by silverstarcross on Sept 30, 2013 5:02:05 GMT
At the limit I'll pull a Big Damn Hero/ine(s) to save the MC(s) if there's just no way they'd win. That sounds reasonable. Lady RuliyaWhy would that get across as copying George R. Martin, exactly?
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 5:10:43 GMT
Cause if a newer author publishes a work where lots of characters die many will assume she copied an already published work.
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Post by silverstarcross on Sept 30, 2013 5:13:32 GMT
Cause if a newer author publishes a work where lots of characters die many will assume she copied an already published work. You don't say. Didn't a lot of the Universal Century Mobile Suit Gundam shows have a habit of killing off a lot of its cast members per show, often? We didn't even touch on the Mobile Suit Gundam multi-verse's prequel in Space Runaway Ideon* either, let alone Neon Genesis Evangelion in general. 1.) (The Ideon itself has already started the very ballpark that Megas XLR and the Gurren Lagann are also at!)
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 6:02:11 GMT
It's very probable not all of my main 6 will make it to the end of my Fantasy story.
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Post by silverstarcross on Sept 30, 2013 6:13:52 GMT
It's very probable not all of my main 6 will make it to the end of my Fantasy story. *Gulp* So soon to say it now?
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 6:58:41 GMT
The gals prolly will though.
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Post by silverstarcross on Sept 30, 2013 7:02:28 GMT
The gals prolly will though. I only recalled some mentionings on the Gals, though. Is there anything unique about the circumstances of their births?
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Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 30, 2013 7:16:00 GMT
Kat isn't anything special in terms of status. Melissa's parents are a famous(ish) scholar and Morrigan the Black Witch, who is closer to humanoid abomination than to magic practitioner. Mielikki is a recently woken dryad hunter who went to slumber in an older age.
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Post by silverstarcross on Sept 30, 2013 7:21:17 GMT
Kat isn't anything special in terms of status. Melissa's parents are a famous(ish) scholar and Morrigan the Black Witch, who is closer to humanoid abomination than to magic practitioner. Mielikki is a recently woken dryad hunter who went to slumber in an older age. The Black Witch?
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