Hollowgo's Story Ideas

[Hollowgo]

Meh. This isn't an OC warzone. This is a topic where people tell me what they think of my ideas and what stories they'd like to see. So > to you.

[Enjorous]

You started it by telling me you'd sic Amara on me. Was I not supposed to be able to defend myself?

[Twigon]

Fictional characters are rocks. No matter how many times you reread the story they will always act the same, do the same things, fall in love with the same person.

In a life were anything could happen, it is nice to have something solid you can go back to. You could die tomorrow, but nothing will ever change the characters in a book.

Philosophical enough for you?

[Enjorous]

Pretty much. But I mean if I have a character behave a certain way throughout a book and have him/her act a different way at one moment, people will claim that it's out of character. Even though if a living person did that people would chalk it up to "a bad day."

We're told that fictional characters should be as close to real people as possible. But in certain ways fictional characters are more real than real people. Maybe I'm the only one who finds this disjunct odd.

[Twigon]

No, I see what you mean. When people come to expect something from a fictional character, they can complain to the person who made them act differently. In real life, the only person you can complain to about acting differently is the person who acted differently, and then it is awkward.

[Hollowgo]

Hence why authors utilize the term "OOC" for doing such things.

Personally, I don't see a need. I establish characters the way that I would interpret them and in some cases it's like how the original author (unless I'm the original author of said character) had them act and sometimes (like in the case of, say, Edward in Blood Solstice) I alter them in a way that I see fit. I'm still wondering how I managed to make Edward likable. I hate his character in Twilight.

[Enjorous]

I'm not talking just in fan fiction. I'm talking in fiction as a whole.

I think what actions the characters take come down to motivations, if a character has a clear motivation then anything he/she does will then make sense.

And HG, you'd be surprised how characters you're supposed to hate often turn out to be favorites.

[Hollowgo]

The day Edward ever becomes my favorite character is the day that I quit writing altogether. Which ain't ever gonna happen. It was painful writing in Jacob's POV for one of the epilogues too, since he's another character I dislike. Oh well.

[Enjorous]

Why? Because they're both abusive manipulative males who really should just lay it on the table and measure.

[Hollowgo]

Because they're both abusive manipulative jackasses that should have never existed in the first place.

[Enjorous]

Nah, they should exist. They give us a common enemy to rally around.

[Hollowgo]

That's true. They do make fun villains for people to hate.

[Enjorous]

pfft but they're not even cool enough to be villains. Neither of them have a black mustache and a black cape

[Hollowgo]

Meh. It's easy to make them hated, though. They may not be cool, but if you get enough people to hate them, then they become villains that people want to see dead.

[Enjorous]

I like villains that think they're the hero of their own stories. Like the ones that think they're doing the right thing.