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SephyCloneNo15
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Apr '05
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Date Posted:
5/31 2:33pm
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RE: The Character Designers Guild
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JohnHunter posted:
LightWarden posted:
An extremely stupid trope, wherein one or more members of the main character's support cast get killed off in a sadistic and pointless manner so that the main character can feel angry/angsty/have a good reason to go murderin'. Victims usually include women, children, best buddies, parents and beloved peasant villages. It's done to add drama, and the problem is that it's done poorly in a grand majority of occasions, since the author manages to fail to actually make it dramatic. If it's there for all of a line or three in your backstory before getting the axe, you've failed.
"But wait," you say, "I'm not one of those incompetent idiots-"
Yes, you are. In an attempt to inject your characters with grim n' gritty edginess that shows their broken souls who need the loving touch of a (wo)man to make them whole again (nine out of ten quack psychologists recommend communal bedrest as the cure for what ails you), you have managed to mine pure unprocessed failure. I cannot be bothered to care about your disposable props, do not show them to me until you can manage to do it without being completely ham-fisted about it. 10 yard penalty, do not touch the "kill beloved" button until you have proven that you can write likable supporting characters and go through a story without ever hitting the damn button.
LMAO!!! You sound just like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Cox
(Lol, my favorite character on Scrubs btw)
Good points also. 
I got more of a Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw vibe. Specifically the post-Brawl Mailbag Showdown.
"(reading an email)'I'm not a fanboy or anything...' (aside) Yes, you are, (reading again) 'but I think you may have judged Brawl a bit harashly.'"
I think if this thread was less about generating more interesting characters and more about discussions of who Light sounds like when he rants, it might be a little more popular
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Ace_Aso
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Date Posted:
5/31 7:53pm
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LightWarden posted:
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Well, according to you most people do this, so I don't think they care.
And I'm just saying, not trying to be mean or anything ok, I'm not trying to make you look stupid or anything.
Trust me, it's not me who looks stupid.
...No need to insult me.
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NickLitYouAFlame
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5/31 11:22pm
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LightWarden posted:
That's an unfair accusation. Most of them aren't that dumb.
They're this dumb.
lol @ that link.
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LightWarden
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Date Posted:
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RE: The Character Designers Guild
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Ace_Aso posted:
...No need to insult me.
Well, unless you're one of the people who do this sort of thing, I'm not insulting you.
NickLitYouAFlame posted:
lol @ that link.
How can you not appreciate Nathaniel Kenobi Solo Clan Fett's work?
"* Ichi Go is based upon and portrayed by the character Ichigo Kurosaki off of the anime/manga Bleach."
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Ace_Aso
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LightWarden posted:
Ace_Aso posted:
...No need to insult me.
Well, unless you're one of the people who do this sort of thing, I'm not insulting you.
NickLitYouAFlame posted:
lol @ that link.
How can you not appreciate Nathaniel Kenobi Solo Clan Fett's work?
"* Ichi Go is based upon and portrayed by the character Ichigo Kurosaki off of the anime/manga Bleach."
Hey, it's got take some work to get all that written down, you have to give him that.
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Randy1012
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6/1 12:23am
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I've never really visited the Fanon Wiki before now.
...Is every entry as awful as those two (the oh-so-clever Ichi Go and Nathaniel blahblahblah) are? 
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LightWarden
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6/1 12:56am
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Possibly.
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DarthXan318
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You know, I did a word count on the Nathaniel Kenobi Solo clan Fett entry, and it's like ... thesis-length. Actually, it's longer than most theses, I think.
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NickLitYouAFlame
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LightWarden
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Remarkable!
Really though, the featured articles past and future are pure comedy.
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Randy1012
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Wow, it seems like a lot of the articles are written by the same group of people... Quite the little AU they've thought up.
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darth_nemisis
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I think the SWFanon website is great for those who have certain characters that they liked. It allows them to develop that character in great detail, and share it with others. Posting it on that wiki would give it greater viewability than posting it on their own website because new websites do not get much attention, especially if they aren't any good.
So, do you guys no like the SWFanon site?
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NickLitYouAFlame
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It provides me with endless amusement, sure.
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Squishy_Vic
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6/1 10:24pm
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Typical whine and dine from off-sites. Pretending you're a character is so much different. 
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Squishy_Vic
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6/1 10:28pm
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JohnHunter posted:
The worst part is, they're not even original enough to draw their own pictures of their characters - they just end up using really obvious pictures of Quinlan Vos or Luke Skywalker instead. Making it look very retarded.
Looking at two articles FTL. I don't need to draw, chum.
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