Mariana
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Pirate Capitan of The Bastard's Kiss}}Strength{4} Dexterity{6} Willpower{2} Magic{0} Cunning{5}
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Post by Mariana on Feb 20, 2012 0:41:43 GMT -5
I know! I'm always arguing with my characters. There's one in particular, who I love, but stubbornly insists on dying and... ugh. My family thinks I'm crazy. Actually... Huh. I think everyone thinks I'm crazy...
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 20, 2012 1:04:05 GMT -5
Sanity is a myth, we all reflect one of the thousand faces of madness.
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Mariana
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Pirate Capitan of The Bastard's Kiss}}Strength{4} Dexterity{6} Willpower{2} Magic{0} Cunning{5}
has slept with everyone
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Post by Mariana on Feb 20, 2012 1:22:32 GMT -5
Haha I like that! I think that'll be my new reason I'm not crazy. I can't be crazy, everyone's crazy. Still, I rather wish she wasn't so insistent on dying...
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 20, 2012 1:54:16 GMT -5
Ahhh but sometimes the death is perfect, tragic, poignant, sweet but not saccharine. It's emotionally draining to write, but my goodness does it make for some good literature. Unfortunately, this love of drama and tragedy has earned me the undying rage of more than a few of my charries, because I've done horrible horrible things to them and the ones they love. *looks piteously at Rory*
Rory: *shoots Sevens in the face, defiles corpse, sets it on fire, pisses on ashes, salt the earth the body was on*
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Muire
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Post by Muire on Feb 20, 2012 23:53:05 GMT -5
hahaha Oh, Sevens! Haha, you must be truly horribly to poor Rory! It's Nalya I'm cruel to.
Nalya: I hope a dragon swallows you whole and you burn to death in its stomach acid.
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 21, 2012 0:25:06 GMT -5
I do think writers oft times engage in a sort of intellectual masochism, wracking themselves with the most horrid of emotions to produce something truly poignant, something full of meaning. God help the character under their sway when that mood hits. I condensed so much angst, suffering and drama into Rory's life, that I had to make a separate character, Iggy, who was essentially a human puppy, to balance out the karmic scales (granted, he also existed to balance out the darkness with Myles), writing for Rory for any extended period of time has actually become depressing.... Of course, on the flip side, he gets one of the most beautiful, well written love stories I've ever conjured, like the perfect complement, complete with a dizzying array of songs ranging from the piercingly, hauntingly beautiful, to the almost saccharine sweet. Of course, bad things ensue.
Rory: *hurls Sevens into the sun, collapses the star, rips a hole in the universe*
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Mariana
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Pirate Capitan of The Bastard's Kiss}}Strength{4} Dexterity{6} Willpower{2} Magic{0} Cunning{5}
has slept with everyone
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Post by Mariana on Feb 21, 2012 1:39:52 GMT -5
Haha Poor Rory yet again! I think he needs a hug. From a sexy pirate XD But yes, poor Nalya is in a similar position. She's shunned for being spirit-touched, her mother dies at a young age, her father becomes a mercenary to support her, she gets tossed in prison, her best friend dies, she's wracked by horrible, crippling visions... It goes on. Nalya hates me, and she's so sweet and forgiving she doesn't hate anyone. Except me, who she wants to die slowly and painfully.
Nalya: *Stabs Mari in the gut and feeds her to demons* I don't usually approve of demonology, but in this case...
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 21, 2012 10:17:50 GMT -5
Oooo, we're breaking out the super woobie comparison sheet? This will be fun.
Rory was born into a severely Dystopian version of Ireland, where all criminals, political dissidents, and all humans who have refused to be 'chipped' (implanted with a highly advanced, and sensitive biofeedback device), are relegated to the cities, which have become large prisons with no bars or cages save those that separate them from the outside world. As you might imagine, the climate within these city prisons is utterly chaotic, where rape, murder, and human trafficking are business as usual.
Rory's mother was an emotionally and physically abusive prostitute (and in reality, the Goddess Eris in disguise), who beats and belittle's the boy regularly, and refuses to tell him who is father is. The most likely suspect, a drug kingpin named Griffin, loves the little boy intensely, but is kept from him more often than not by the mother's wiles, and the fear of putting Rory in danger from his various rivals. By the age of five/six, the mother grows tired of these games, sells Rory to slavers and burns the father alive in front of Rory when he tries to interfere.
Rory manages to kill the slavers and escape, only to spend the next two to three years surviving on the streets with the other gutter children. Rory is in possession of certain talents, and soon finds a grizzled old man who is possession of similar talents (who happens to be a spy for a future version of the UN). This old man takes him under his wing for the next six or so years, helps him refines his skills, develops on hesitant father/son relationship with him, and is promptly killed in a shootout (Eris in disguise again)
Damaged by the deaths of two father figures, Rory is now convinced that his mother was right, in that he simply "can't have beautiful things." Of course, within a year, he meets a girl, wherein he turns into the greatest Tsundere to ever walk the earth. He does everything in his power to drive her away, convinced she'll die like all the rest, but she has the patience of several saints (because she is in fact, the Daughter of Harmonia, Goddess of Harmony, Marriage, and Cosmic Order, and Eris' eternal rival). Rory curses and spits venom for the greater part of a year, before at last relenting They're married a year later, they live together for six years, they have a son, by his fourth birthday, they attempt to flee the. The wife dies when a portion of a building collapses and blocks her from her son and Rory, but she buys them time to escape. Rory is shot as he flees, and even though he positioned himself to take the full brunt of the gunfire, the bullets pass through his body and kill his son.
This is the halfway point of the story. I am now depressed. I'm going to go eat chocolate.
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Muire
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Post by Muire on Feb 21, 2012 10:46:32 GMT -5
 ... You're so mean! Hm... that actually sounds similar to Sage's life... She's the one who insists on dying... |
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 21, 2012 22:35:08 GMT -5
Bwahaha, see! There's a point when a character's life/luck gets soooo bad, it'd almost be comical if weren't written in such a dark tone. Of course, you'd have to have to be a complete asshat to actually laugh. I do really like building up intense emotional bonds... just so I can play with them later, like a kitten playing with a dead mouse.....
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Muire
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Post by Muire on Feb 22, 2012 1:20:45 GMT -5
*cackles* Ah, yes, I do so love to torture my characters... But then they just tell my to go fuck myself and insist on dying in this massive blaze of blood-soaked glory... In Sage's case she fought in a civil war on the opposite side of her lover and died when one of his men disemboweled her as he inadvertently kept her distracted... very sad... Then he found out she wasn't actually a traitor when he goes to deliver her necklace to her brother... And All the badness that I had been piling on Sage gets piled on him along with the torture I was already inflicting on him...
Thomas: *stabs Mari/Muire in the intestines and grinds coarse dirt in the wound* I hope you rot to death from the inside for days.
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 22, 2012 1:33:58 GMT -5
I swear... writers and Sims players are the MOST sadistic sort of people... I luv it! And star-crossed lovers on opposite ends of a civil war? Glorious, you can smell the death and misery to come.
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Muire
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Post by Muire on Feb 22, 2012 1:40:13 GMT -5
Ah, yes, their relationship was doomed from the start. She's an escaped slave, he's a noble who owns slaves... Then there's the civil war, and the return of the spirit-touched, and another civil war... Bad things. I make bad things happen to them.
I'm mean.
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Myles
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Post by Myles on Feb 22, 2012 1:44:00 GMT -5
Pfft, like something as silly as eminent doom has ever kept people from loving one another. The worse bit though, and the bit I think makes the most impact, is when every character is very fully fleshed out, even the bit players. Rory's story only has weight, because Griffin (the father) and Charlie (the mentor) are their own characters, with their own history, drama, and issues. They clearly exist even when they're off screen. Hell, Aria (the wife) was really the co-main character of the book. I think people should really give their NPCs weight, especially in an RP, that way, when things happen to them, you reader, your fellow players, feel it in the gut.
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Muire
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Post by Muire on Feb 22, 2012 1:51:30 GMT -5
THANK YOU!!! Too freakin' many people downplay the little teeny minor characters! Like poor Mathew, Thomas' brother. You barely see him, but I could write a whole book just about him and the poor widow he ends up leaving behind. Or Will - Sage's brother, who you basically only see briefly at the beginning when he helps Sage get out of the city and again when Thomas gives him back Sage's necklace. And he breaks Thomas' nose...
Will: *Beats Mari's head against a wall repeatedly until she dies* I was very fond of my sister.
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... You're so mean! Hm... that actually sounds similar to Sage's life... She's the one who insists on dying...